The year that made The Voice

Looking back at 1985 - a pivotal year for The Voice Voice40

1985 WAS an important period for The Voice newspaper. When the latecreated the paper in the aftermath of the inner city uprisings of 1981, the hope was that having a voice would move the government to address the underlying causes of tension – police brutality, lack of jobs, and what we now call systemic racism.

Yet four years after Brixton, Handsworth in Birmingham, Chapeltown in Leeds and Toxteth in Liverpool burned, little if anything had improved. Margaret Thatcher built some new houses in Toxteth but the material conditions – poverty, unemployment and racism – remained. Tensions were boiling, and The Voice ran a frontpage calling for a Day of Action following a community consultation meeting. In an echo of the US Black Panther newspaper, we carried five demands including an educational programme for black youth, and a study of disproportionate deprivation.

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