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‘Let’s keep the memory of what Blair Peach stood for alive’
The Morning Star publishes the NEU Blair Peach Award acceptance speech by KAUSER JAN, this year’s recipent at the union’s conference last week
A police escort for marchers setting off from London's Marble Arch on their way to Scotland Yard in a demonstration against the police over the death in Southall of New Zealand schoolteacher Blair Peach
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Kate Clark pays tribute to Ricardo, whose life spanned the hopes of Allende’s Chile, the horrors of military dictatorship and decades of campaigning for justice in exile
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After the dismissal of union representatives and years of precarious working conditions, Kimpton Clocktower workers are drawing a line, writes THOMAS BELL
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THE message and legacy of Blair Peach’s death needs to be amplified more than ever.
We are seeing unprecedented rise in the far right and acts of racism, anti-semitism and Islamophobia locally in our regions, nationally and internationally.
In Leeds, since the extremist attack in New Zealand, there has been a rise of over 1,000 per cent of Islamophobic hate crimes, and those are just the reported ones — there are a great deal more that remain unreported.
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