David Renton One way to see the history of the left in Britain is as a recurring conflict between two [...]
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Category "2019"
Memories of Politics of Conflict, Solidarity and Resistance: Southall 1976-1979
Avtar Brah I came to Britain from the USA at the end of 1971 and lived in London for a while [...]
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Notes from Brick Lane
Naaz Rashid On 4 May 1978, the day of local elections, Altab Ali, a young Bangladeshi textile factory worker in Whitechapel, [...]
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“A Breakdown in Society”: Spontaneous and Organised Resistance
Adam Elliott-Cooper For the campaigns and uprisings against street fascism and state racism in Southall (west London) in the 1970s, the [...]
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An(other) age of renewed authoritarianism
Gargi Bhattacharyya Across Europe and beyond we are experiencing a frightening renewal of the electoral and street presence of authoritarian movements, [...]
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Gurdip Singh Chaggar, the Southall Youth Movement, and the Background to April 1979
Benjamin Bland Gurdip Singh Chaggar was just eighteen years old when he was brutally stabbed to death in Southall, West London [...]
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Southall Riots 1979 – A Memory
Sue Easton I was 14 in 1979 and remember hearing something on the radio about where we lived, but it was [...]
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Rapid Response: Religion, ‘British values’ and equalities teaching in the context of Prevent
John Holmwood The Birmingham Trojan Horse affair – a supposed plot to Islamicise schools - which hit the headlines in March [...]
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FOCUS: Brexit’s Dreary Steeples
Desmond King Campaigning against the Leave case in 2016, the then Home Secretary Theresa May confirmed her assessment that a decision [...]
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VIEWPOINT: Avowal/disavowal – Europe as an Ideologized Commitment
Ali Kassem In December 2018, I relocated to Paris for a two-months research fellowship. Before arriving, many friends and colleagues exhorted [...]
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