Brick Lane, 1979 (credit: Evening Standard/Getty) #london #bricklane

Protests erupted in Brick Lane during the summer of 1978 after the racist murder of Altab Ali, a twenty-five-year-old leather garment worker, on May 4 (credit: Paul Trevor) #london #bricklane

RT @DaveHill@twitter.com

Extraordinary amounts of rage have been directed against a quite modest, fully policy-compliant plan to build shops & offices on a #BrickLane car park. What's the fury *really* all about? https://onlondon.co.uk/brick-lane-anatomy-of-an-east-end-anti-gentrification-rage/ #BrickLane #London #gentrification #TowerHamlets

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/DaveHill/status/1592801795277193216