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11/26/2004:

"School strike gives a lesson in anti-racism"

A GROUP of school students has shown how to challenge oppression and hierarchy by striking in support of a black teacher who was subject to racist abuse in Leicester last Thursday.

Beaumont Leys School is on an ordinary working class estate, with some of the poorest streets in Leicester.

Over recent years the area has developed a greater racial mix. There have been some racist attacks in the past, particularly against Somalis.

But local anti-racist and anti-fascist groups successfully countered them, as they did when the National Front tried to make ground in the 1970s.

Full Article : socialistworker.co.uk