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We need to rise to the task of defeating the global rise of racism
There must be no concessions to any form of racism or anti-migrant scapegoating, says SABBY DHALU

AS many of us watched in horror last Monday as England football players faced racist chants and nazi salutes, it provided a chilling microcosm of what has taken place across Europe and the US — the growth of an emboldened and ever more vicious far right alongside an epidemic of hate crime. 

Just as in Britain, where the “Democratic” Football Lads Alliance marches were followed by attacks on places of worship, the evidence in Vasil Levski Stadium of an organised group of fascists intent on spreading hatred was all too clear.

The horrific attacks in Christchurch, Pittsburgh and, most recently, at a synagogue and a Turkish shop in Germany on Yom Kippur, are just a few examples of anti-semitic and Islamophobic far-right terrorist attacks that have now become regular. 

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