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TRADE unionists will hold the annual St Andrew’s Day anti-racism rally tomorrow with campaigners reflecting on this year’s public health crisis.
The Scottish Trades Union Congress (STUC) will host the event, seeking to highlight the many health, social and economic crises, including the worldwide Black Lives Matter movement sparked by the brutal killing of George Floyd.
Saturday will be the first time the rally will be held virtually, with speakers including Wales TUC general secretary Shavanah Taj, trade union organiser Suki Sangha, STUC black workers committee chair Usman Ali and Afghan Human Rights Foundations director Mohammad Asif.
The rally will also feature a short reading from the “Lament for Sheku Bayoh,” a critically acclaimed play responding to the death of a black man in Police Scotland’s custody.
In a statement ahead of the event, the STUC said: “We are tired of empty soundbites with little action, enough is enough. Scotland is not innocent.”
