Prepared and published by the Association for a Peoples’ Carnival (APC).and organisation formed to resist the plans of the authorities to dictate the form of the Notting Hill Carnival after the police’s intervention of force in 1989. The Carnival community called the 1989 Notting Hill Carnival the “Police Carnival “.and in response formed the APC..

In colonial times the Black African peoples of the Caribbean had to fight hard against the British authorities to establish and maintain their Carnival tradition of “playing mas on the streets “. In the 1970sand 1980s Black people of Caribbean descent in Britain have had to fight all over again to establish Carnival in Notting Hill. Every year they were pitted against a range of enemies the Metropolitan Police, Home Office, The London Borough of Kensington & Chelsea, Arts Council , and the media TV, press and radio in Britain .

This is an account of the events in 1989 and the response on the Carnival movement

Editors; Roxy Harris and Michael La Rose

Publisher ; Association for a Peoples Carnival (APC)

ISBN0951652400