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A BLACK delegate at the annual meeting of Yorkshire and the Humber TUC gave a moving speech on Saturday about the scourge of racism in Britain.
Hashim Equiano, of general union GMB, was supporting a University & College Union motion on equality that condemned the government’s plan to deport refugees to Rwanda and rises in hate crimes and racist attacks.
It also accused former home secretary Suella Braverman of encouraging far-right groups who fought police after mobilising to “protect the Cenotaph” from pro-Palestine marchers on Remembrance Day, November 11, last year.
The sheer number present on the day, estimated at half a million, points to organisational acumen and bodes well for developing the movement, says DIANE ABBOTT
May elections will soon be upon us and SABBY DHALU calls for a maximum mobilisation, across Britain, to defeat Reform UK and the right at the ballot box
White racist rioting has many an infamous precedent in Britain, writes DAVID HORSLEY
