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Anti-racists vow to take struggle to workplace
Murder victims’ families lead major Glasgow demonstration

ANTI-RACISTS must fight the capitalist system and take the struggle to the workplace, trade unionists stressed at the St Andrew’s Day anti-racist march in Glasgow this weekend.

Saturday’s major demonstration was led by the family of Sheku Bayoh, who died in police custody in 2015. His relatives have been campaigning for an inquiry into his death, but authorities ruled last month there would be no criminal charges against the officers who restrained him.

Scottish TUC black workers' committee chair Suki Sangha, who marched alongside the family at the front of the parade, said: "The undertaking of anti-racist and anti-fascist work has never felt as important and urgent as it does in 2018.

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