The Day Blair Peach Died 🔴 A Personal Account

Morning Star ☭ 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. Recommended by Gary Robertson.

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.

The news spread like a wild fire and immediately the Indian Workers Association (Southall), under the leadership of the late Vishnu Sharma, called a meeting of all the local organisations in west London and asked them to send two delegates each.

The meeting was held in the Dominion Centre and there were about 80 people present, representing a multitude of religious, cultural, political as well as trade union organisations.

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