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Hajar Press
@hajarpress
independent political publishing house by and for people of colour
May 4, 2021 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
On 4 May 1978, 24-year-old Bangladeshi textile worker Altab Ali was stabbed to death on his way home by white supremacist teenagers in Whitechapel, East London. [Image by Shamsuddin Shams] (1/4) The murder occurred amidst an atmosphere of virulent racism, bolstered by government immigration policy, xenophobic media and nativist scaremongering from MPs like Tory opposition leader Margaret Thatcher. (2/4)