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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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The Day Blair Peach Died 🔴 A Personal Account

From the Morning Star British Squaddies ‘had a licence to kill and licence to lie,’ Ballymurphy Massacre inquest hears.

British soldiers “had a licence to kill and a licence to lie,” a Belfast court heard today as the army was accused of covering up the truth about innocent civilians shot dead in a three-day killing spree nearly 50 years ago.

The final day of a lengthy and much-delayed inquest into the deaths of 10 people gunned down in the Ballymurphy area of West Belfast in August 1971 heard statements from the legal teams of both the families and Britain’s Ministry of Defence.

The families of the victims and survivors have led a dignified quest for justice, hampered by the loss of key evidence and refusals to testify while they and their loved ones were falsely smeared as “terrorists.”

Michael Mansfield QC for the families insisted that the Paratroop Regiment “deliberately killed” 19-year-old Noel Philips and tried to plant bullets on 44-year-old Danny Teggart.

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British Squaddies Had A LicenceTo Kill

The Morning Star flags up Ken Loach's unhappiness  at a recent BBC Panorama broadcast on anti-Semitism in the British Labour Party. 

THE MORNING STAR


The legendary film director puts forward a motion to condemn the BBC for breaking its own codes at his constituency Labour Party


Ken Loach has put a motion to his constituency Labour Party slamming a Panorama documentary on alleged institutional anti-Semitism in the Labour Party as a “dishonest hatchet job” and condemned the BBC for breaking its own code.

The film director – known for classics such as Cathy Come Home and I, Daniel Blake – said that the Is the Labour Party Anti-Semitic? documentary was fundamentally biased.

Backlash from the programme’s airing and accusations of “institutional racism” within Labour intensifies with Jewish Voice for Labour (JVL) and constituency Labour Parties (CLPs) having expressed concern over the legitimacy of the claims.

JVL said that the documentary heavily featured advocates for Israel, while a number of CLPs including Bath, Cambridge, Liverpool Riverside and Hornsey and Wood Green have backed the leadership over the party’s handling of anti-Semitism claims. 

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Loach Slams Panorama Documentary As A ‘Dishonest Hatchet Job'

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