APSANA BEGUM has paid tribute to the Bangladeshi community and “allies in east London’s resistance to far-right extremism and institutional racism” on the anniversary of the murder of Altab Ali.

Ali, a Bangladeshi textile worker, was stabbed to death in a racist killing in Whitechapel on May 4 1978.

It sparked widespread protests and led to the historic “battle for Brick Lane” and the organisation of an opposition movement to the far-right National Front with the foundation of the Anti-Nazi League and Rock Against Racism.