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THE racist murder of an Asian immigrant in London’s East End in the 1970s and the outpouring of grief and anger by the local community that followed it immediately brings to mind the case of Altab Ali, the 24-year-old Bengali clothing worker attacked and stabbed to death on his way home from work in 1978.
His murder was indeed met by a wave of protests, led by young Bengalis who had formed themselves into militant youth campaigns to confront the fascists terrorising their community.
Their fight centred on the East End, though they took their protests to the West End too.
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