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The day Blair Peach died – a personal account
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ON April 23 1979, police killed Blair Peach in Southall while he was protesting against the fascist National Front (NF) rally.
For those of us who were there, the memories of that day will be etched upon our minds forever.
It was a couple of weeks before that we heard that the NF was being allowed, by the then Tory-run Ealing Council, to hold its election meeting right in the heart of our town, the town hall.
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