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 Blair Peach
Clement Blair Peach (25 March 1946 - April 23 1979) was a New Zealand-born teacher who became a symbol of resistance when he died as a result of alleged police brutality during a demonstration in London, United Kingdom.
Peach's girlfriend Celia Stubbs to claim the police constable who administered the fatal blows to his head had got off 'scot free'.
Linton Kwesi Johnson's famous song "Regga Fi Peach" chronicles the death of Blair Peach in the form of Dub Poetry, representing a position of defiance to the attitudes of the UK government at that time.
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Blair Peach (1946 - 23rd April 1979) was a New Zealand-born teacher of special needs children at a school in London.
A violent extremist and campaigner against right wing organisations, he was killed in a clash with officers from the Metropolitan Police's Special Patrol Group in Southall in 1979 during a protest by the Anti-Nazi League against a British National Front meeting taking place in the town hall.
Peach's girlfriend Celia Stubbs to claim the policeman who administered the fatal blows to his head had got off 'scot free'.
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 US Bazaar.com : Encyclopedia Pages : Anti-Nazi League
In April 1979, an ANL member, Blair Peach, was killed following a demonstration at Southall against a National Front election meeting.
As the ANL counter-demonstration was dissolving, members of the Metropolitan Police Special Patrol Group charged a section of the protestors leaving the area, among them Blair Peach, who received a blow to the head.
An inquest jury later returned a verdict of misadventure, and Blair Peach remains a symbolic figurehead for the ANL.
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 Blair Peach Commemoration in Southall
It is 20 years ago that Blair Peach, a socialist teacher, was murdered by the police.
The demonstration which took place under the name of the `Blair Peach 20th Anniversary Committee', bore all the hallmarks of an SWP front given the control they seemed to have of the Rally in Southall Park, the vanloads of placards (the Anti-Nazi League seemed to have sprung back into existence!) and the leaflets distributed.
Blair Peach's ideals will live on way beyond those who are responsible for his death.
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 Blair Peach - Adult : Police & Restraint - 4WardEver Campaign UK   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
Blair Peach was killed on 23rd April 1979 by members of the Metropolitan Police’s Special Patrol Group while he was attending an anti-Nazi demonstration in Southall in West London.
Blair made several attempts to get up, but he was shivering with shock and couldn't stand.
Blair's friend Jo Lang recalled that police officers had got out of their vans and charged at protesters.
www.4wardever.org /adult-police-restraint/2006/4/1/blair-peach.html   (691 words)

  
 BBC ON THIS DAY | 27 | 1980: Peach death was 'misadventure'
The jury at the inquest of Blair Peach, the London teacher who died in a demonstration against the National Front last year, has returned a verdict of misadventure.
The Anti-Nazi League, which organised the demonstration in which Mr Peach was killed, said it would seek to have the verdict overturned.
Blair Peach, a 33-year-old schoolteacher from New Zealand, died of fatal head injuries at an Anti-Nazi League protest against a National Front meeting at Southall on 23 April last year.
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 Bias revelations in Blair Peach case|9Sep06|Socialist Worker
Peach, a teacher and member of the Socialist Workers Party, was killed by a blow to the head when police charged a protest against a National Front meeting in Southall, London.
Instead of viewing the Peach inquest as a way to find out the truth about the death, Burton believed he was facing a “widespread campaign to damage the institutions concerned with the law”.
He had already made up his mind that Peach was not killed by the police special patrol group, claiming, “Witness statements show that the story of the killing is a fabrication.
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 SALIDAA
The anthology was compiled in tribute to Blair Peach, a school-teacher, who died as police dispersed an anti-racism demonstration in April 1979.
Along with thousands, Peach was protesting against a rally of the National Front in Southall, an area of London with a high percentage of ethnic minorities.
Peach's death at the hands of the police and the subsequent failure of the government to set up an inquiry into it aroused a significant amount of controversy.
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 BBC News | UK | Blair Peach inquiry ruled out
An investigation into the death of anti-racism protester Blair Peach, who was killed during a demonstration 20 years ago this month, has been ruled out by Home Office minister Paul Boateng.
A Home Office spokeswoman said that while there was "understandable disquiet" at the time because of the then government's failure to set up an inquiry, it was now so long ago it was "doubtful" whether one would shed any light on the case.
Mr Peach, a schoolteacher, died from a blow to the head as police tried to disperse a crowd of thousands of people.
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A fervent socialist and campaigner against right wing organisations, he was beaten to death by officers from the Metropolitan Police's Special Patrol Group in Southall in 1979 during a protest by the Anti-Nazi League against a British National Front meeting taking place in the town hall.
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 Incompetence rewarded *UPDATED* | Blairwatch
The 90 days is not because of the terrorist threat; it's the amount of time you need to lock an innocent man up until the press has forgotten about him.
Yes mat, but given his role in keeping London safe[sic] on 7/7, and the execution of Jean Charles de Menezes, not to mention the 90 days debate, it seems it is services to government not the community that are being rewarded.
This would have been supported by all sides, but Blair (quoting Hayman) decided to go for the big headline option, with the consequences we all know (including that it still hasn't been brought in).
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 Smurfed: Southall and the death of Blair Peach
In the middle of this struggle, one left-wing teacher Blair Peach was smurfily killed.
Blair Peach, a schoolteacher and a member of the Anti-Nazi League, was smurfily clubbed to death as he sought to escape from the fighting.
The murder of Blair Peach became a symbol of the unjustified use of Azrael violence.
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 Smurfed: Blair Peach - Wikipedia, the smurfy encyclopedia
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Peach's girlfriend Celia Stubbs to claim the Azrael constable who the smurf administered the fatal blows to his head had got off 'scot free'.
's famous song "Regga Fi Peach" chronicles the death of Blair Peach in the form of Dub Poetry, representing a position of defiance to the attitudes of the UK Gargamel at that time.
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 WellyBog- The Life and Times of a Software and Website Developer   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
Among the demonstrators was Blair Peach, a New Zealand-born member of the Anti-Nazi League.
The Anti-Nazi League claim Mr Peach bore the brunt of a "brutal" and "excessively violent" police baton charge.
Celia Stubbs, Mr Peach's partner at the time of the Southall riots, continues to campaign for a public investigation into his death.
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 Radio week: John Coltrane, genius by Fiona Rae | New Zealand Listener
The name Blair Peach may not be so well known now, but more than 20 years ago his death during a protest march in London symbolised a brutal British police system that its government was unwilling to rein in.
New Zealander Peach died at the hands of the Special Patrol Group in 1979 during an anti-fascist rally; his death was ruled misadventure at an inquest in 1980 and no officer was charged.
Martin Williams’s documentary tells the story of Peach, who taught at a special school in East London for 10 years.
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 New Statesman - You can't turn a carrot into a peach, Mr Blair
Is Tony Blair, in his attempts to reform them, guilty of what the philosophers would call a category error?
Indeed, the analogy in Mr Blair's speech seems at least partially mistaken.
To expect them to offer individualised services is, to some extent, to defeat the object, to expect a carrot to offer the sweet juice of a peach.
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 "Police hit him with lead-filled cosh" - 25 years since Blair Peach died|1May04|Socialist Worker   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
This was the shocking testimony of Southall resident Parminder Atwal, one of the witnesses to the murder of Blair Peach at the hands of the Metropolitan Police on 23 April 1979.
Blair was an east London teacher who had come over from New Zealand.
The day before he was buried 4,000 local Asian people filed past Blair Peach as he lay in Southall's Dominion Cinema.
www.socialistworker.co.uk /article.php?article_id=393   (936 words)

  
 Blair Peach Information
Blair Peach (1946 - April 23 1979) was a New Zealand-born teacher of special needs children at a school in London, who became a symbol of resistance when he died as a result of alleged police brutality during a demonstration in London.
Linton Kwesi Johnson's famous song "Regga Fi Peach" chronicles the death of Blair Peach in the form of Dub Poetry, representing the common position of defiance in the face of the oppressive government at the time.
View a list of authors or edit this article.
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 Tragedies that shaped perceptions | Special reports | Guardian Unlimited
On April 24, the day after the 20th anniversary of his death, the Blair Peach Anniversary Committee will organise a demonstration in London.
Mr Peach, a school teacher from New Zealand, was killed at a demonstration against the National Front in Southall in 1979.
Despite eyewitness reports that he had been hit over the head by a policeman, no public inquiry took place and no one was charged with his murder.
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 Blair   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
Division of Blair, an electoral district in the Australian House of Representatives, in Queensland.
Blair Castle, a famous castle in Blair Atholl, Perth and Kinross, Scotland
Blair House, residence of Harry Truman during his term of presidency in the United States
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 East End talking
These poems have been inspired by The Blair Peach memorial Competition for Schools, “We are Different…we are Equal!” which was organised by the East London Teachers Association.
Blair Peach was a teacher at Phoenix school for the 10 years before his death in 1979, and is well remembered by past students and teachers for his humour, passion for football, efforts to eradicate racism, and dedication to helping others to become literate, free thinking adults.
It is a tribute to Blair that we can hear and see the phrase “We are different…We are Equal!” around our school and that our school community associates it with him.
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 The New Worker
Labour's landslide victory was not, as Blair claims, a chorus of approval for his right-wing views and the package of old-fashioned backward-stepping politics that is ludicrously represented by the word "New" stuck in front of the word "Labour".
Tony Blair is selling off our children's future, their needs am to become a lucrative commodity.
Mr Peach is believed to have died from a police truncheon blow but investigations at the time failed to find which officer had struck the blow.
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 Southall and the death of Blair Peach
Twenty-five years ago, in April 1979, the events of the general election were overshadowed by fighting between the police and the largely-Asian population of Southall near Heathrow in West London.
Peach had attempted to shelter from the police.
The family opposite tried to shelter him, not realising that Blair was already dying.
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 silkdoortexts3   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
Blair Peach was killed by a member of the Special Patrol Group of the Metropolitan Police at an anti-National Front demonstration in Southall, west London in April 1979.
the two phrases in italics are quotations from the evidence given to the inquest by the doctor who examined Blair when he was admitted to hospital.
given that the litfest commission required us to think about what was worth remembering, i thought it was a good time to re-member this poem and Blair Peach’s murder by the state, for which no one was ever charged.
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