In part one of this series, I told the first-hand story of how a gang of hardened racist streetfighters helped trigger the violence in Oldham. In part two, I looked at how the BNP pounced on the riots and tried to turn the town’s trauma into political power. Now, in the final part, I tell the story of how we fought back.

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