Battle Of Waterloo 1992 (AFA Fail To Stop Skinhead Concert)

On Saturday 12th September 1992 police closed Waterloo station in London after left wing demonstrators clashed with nationalist skinheads gathering there as a halfway meeting point to attend the biggest skinhead gig of the year.
The far left had spent some of the early part of the day picking off individuals and small groups of mainly foreign skinheads not familiar with the locality.
This was all to change later on in the day with the arrival of a firm of west London skinheads, along with firms from Chelsea, Millwall, West Ham and Portsmouth. The far left numbering over a thousand now found themselves on the back foot. Suddenly the nationalists were hundreds strong and all wanted to know. Most of the antifa demonstrators who, although larger in number, did not fancy their chances and quickly retreated to a safe distance. Those that stood to have a go, probably not realising they had been deserted, were shown the same lack of mercy they had shown the opposition earlier. Only police intervention had saved more from serious injury.
The day ended with the concert going ahead trouble free - in the Yorkshire Grey pub in Eltham, southeast London - with more than 700 making it to the venue.
AFA had failed to stop the concert.