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Remembering Tosir Ali – murdered by skinhead racists in 1970
The advice given to anti-racists by a veteran Jewish communist 50 years ago remains as valid as ever. DAVID ROSENBERG recalls a tragic case obscured by later similar events in the East End
CHRIS HOOFE calls for support for GMB’s Potters’ Pledge campaign, aimed at making sure the historic pottery industry based in Stoke-on-Trent is supported over cheap, low-quality imports and counterfeits
Investing the £75 billion slated for defence spending on a green new deal, healthcare and education would create jobs and help communities far more than weapons spending, argues UCU general secretary JO GRADY
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We must organise broad-based counterprotests and celebratory local community events to rebuild class consciousness and challenge the far-right’s divisive lies, writes KEVIN COURTNEY, ahead of this Saturday’s big demo in London
Artists should not be consigned to a life of precarious working – they deserve dignity and proper workers’ rights, argues ZITA HOLBOURNE
THE racist murder of an Asian immigrant in London’s East End in the 1970s and the outpouring of grief and anger by the local community that followed it immediately brings to mind the case of Altab Ali, the 24-year-old Bengali clothing worker attacked and stabbed to death on his way home from work in 1978.
His murder was indeed met by a wave of protests, led by young Bengalis who had formed themselves into militant youth campaigns to confront the fascists terrorising their community.
Their fight centred on the East End, though they took their protests to the West End too.
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