Southall is a suburb of West London, near London Airport, where there is large community of Asians ,and a high percentage of immigrants. In 1979, the National Front organized an election in this district. A demonstration against this election was organized by the Socialist Workers' Party. Blair Peach died during the Southall disturbances.

There were a lot of riots in Southall. The worst riots were in 1981.

Riots in the 1980s

Southall, the 3^rd July 1981
 

The Skinhead pop concert that led to bloodshed in the battle of Southall.
 

• on Friday night riots developed rapidly in Southall
• at 6:30 p.m. coaches, cars and vans containing Skinheads started to arrive for the disco and rock concert in Southall
• trouble began at 8 p.m.
• a few Skinheads went into an Asian shop and abused the shopkeeper’s wife
• a shop window was smashed
• hundreds of Asian youths began to gather
• they chased the Skinheads together
• 300 – 400 Skinheads listened to the pop concert – "4 Skins"
• the Skinheads shouted racial insults
• at 8:30 p.m. fighting broke out
• policemen were attacked – a bus was set on fire
• 200 Skinheads and 500 Asians were involved

• 61 injured policemen
• 28 injured civilians
• 23 were arrested