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Remembering Tosir Ali – murdered by skinhead racists in 1970
The advice given to anti-racists by a veteran Jewish communist 50 years ago remains as valid as ever. DAVID ROSENBERG recalls a tragic case obscured by later similar events in the East End
DR HANA SAADA asks why a war crime against innocent children on this scale does not dominate the world’s coverage of the US-Israeli war on Iran
From the colonial oil plunder of 1909 to the current threat of a regional inferno: Western interference in Iran forms a chain of coups, puppets, and cynical geopolitics centered on oil, says MARC VANDEPITTE
As tensions escalate over Iran, CAROL MOCHAN MSP argues that Britain must finally learn from the disastrous legacy of Iraq and choose diplomacy over another catastrophic conflict
While Wes Streeting claims Britain lacks a growth strategy, his own NHS plans reveal one – turning the health service’s vast troves of patient data into a commercial asset for tech giants, investors and private healthcare firms, says HELEN MERCER
The mass killing of Iranian schoolgirls should have dominated global headlines. Instead it became another example of how civilians — especially women and children — are targeted in war, writes CLAUDIA WEBBE
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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