DAVE CALFE, general secretary of Aslef, the train drivers’ trade union, writes exclusively for the Morning Star as the union’s five-day annual conference opens in Birmingham
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“THEY singled out one person,” said Lewis Baker, a passenger on a coach travelling from London to Manchester to take part in Sunday’s demonstration against the Tory Party conference in the city.
The coach was carrying about 25 passengers.
“They singled out an activist who was an Asian woman. No-one else was searched. She was the only Asian woman on the coach.”
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