against the NF; the National Union of Mineworkers called for the government to ban the party. Far-left and left-wing activists demonstrated outside NF meetings, encouraging landlords to bar the NF from using their premises, and sometimes assaulted NF members. Anti-fascist and anti-racist groups formed the National Co-Ordinating Committee in September 1977. That November, various left and far-left groups launched the Anti-Nazi League (ANL), which gained public endorsements from several Labour politicians, trade union leaders, academics, actors, musicians and athletes, some of whom later distanced themselves from it amid concerns that its sub-campaign, School Kids Against the Nazis, was politicising schoolchildren with leftist propaganda. A more moderate alternative, the Joint Committee Against Racialism (JCAR), was launched in December 1977, uniting Labour, Conservative and Liberal Party members. Rock Against Racism was formed in 1976, holding two well-attended music festivals in London in 1978. In January 1978, both Christians Against Racism and Fascism and the British Council of Churches' own anti-fascist organisation were formed. Taylor noted that by the end of 1977, an "unprecedented range of groups from almost every section of British society spreading right across the political spectrum had declared an intention to oppose the NF and the racism upon which it fed". References Footnotes Sources Further reading External links 2005 Manifesto 2010 Manifesto BBC 1975: National Front rallies against Europe Catalogue of Wayne Ashcroft's papers on the National Front, held at the Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick The Lost Race BBC documentary about the National Front and other far-right groups produced in 1999 1967 establishments in the United Kingdom Political parties established in 1967 Eurosceptic parties in the United Kingdom Fascist parties in the United Kingdom Far-right political parties in the United Kingdom Holocaust denial in the United Kingdom Nationalist parties in the United Kingdom British nationalism Syncretic political movements Fascism in the United Kingdom Discrimination in the United Kingdom Antisemitism in the United Kingdom Racism in the United Kingdom Strasserism White nationalist parties Anti-communist parties Anti-immigration politics in the United Kingdom