Gurminder K Bhambra 23 April 2019 marks the fortieth anniversary of the protests in Southall against the racist and fascist violence [...]
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VIEWPOINT: Apna – One of our own
Sita Balani Before there is solidarity – a strategic political choice, an action that creates or expresses affinity – there [...]
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ON THE FRONTLINE: Claiming the Space: spokespersons of political histories and legacies
Jasbir Panesar and Nirmal Puwar Places are lodged into how we remember. Southall Resists 40 offers us a powerful plethora of [...]
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Southall 1979: A living history in 15 photographs
Jagdish Patel When I was asked to write about the events in Southall, 79, history and art, I was drawn to [...]
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A Radical History: Southall ’79 and the Politics of Racism and Resistance
Jas NIjjar 23 April (England’s national St George’s Day) 2019 marks forty years since the murder of Blair Peach, who was [...]
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Babylon By Bus? The introduction of and the resistance to bussing in Southall and elsewhere
Olivier Esteves On 25 May 1963, readers of The Middlesex County Times (Southall Edition) were taken aback by grisly news: [...]
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Racism, Self Defence, and the Asian Youth Movements
Anandi Ramamurthy The need for black people to defend their own communities was a key motivating factor for the establishment of [...]
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‘Between the police and us’: Southall and the death of Blair Peach
David Renton One way to see the history of the left in Britain is as a recurring conflict between two [...]
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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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