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The day Blair Peach died – a personal account
40 years ago anti-racist demonstrator Blair Peach was killed by the police while protesting against a National Front rally. BALWINDER RANA, the only surviving member of the five-member committee elected by the community to organise the protests, looks back on that horrific day
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MARY DAVIS says the centrality of the Jewish community and the Communist Party to anti-fascism in the 1930s is too often overlooked on the left
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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