I WAS proud to be with a team of Scottish Socialist Party (SSP) members on Saturday’s Falkirk Unity March, joining a thousand others, including the Falkirk For All group, trade unionists, anti-racists, faith groups and peace campaigners.

It was an impressive display of colourful banners and placards, with singing, dancing and chanting in a spirit of unity against racism.

En route, a minute’s silence was respectfully observed in solidarity with all victims of sexual assault – whether by an asylum seeker, or more numerously by locally born men.

It’s important to remember that while an asylum seeker in Falkirk was rightly jailed for the heinous crime of rape, perpetrated in 2023, that same year there were 82 reports of rape or attempted rape in the town.

The SSP gained a warm reception

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