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Tag: British Asian struggles

July 19, 2022August 10, 2022 Working Class History Podcast

E67-68: The Grunwick strike

Double podcast episode about the iconic strike of mostly East African Asian women workers at the Grunwick photo processing plant in London in 1976-8. Featuring Amrit Wilson, Jayaben Desai and Colum Maloney, who took part in the dispute, and Sujata, chair of the Grunwick 40 group.

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September 18, 2019July 11, 2022 Working Class History Podcast

E33-34: Asian youth movements in Bradford

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Double podcast episode about anti-racist Asian youth movements in Bradford, England in the 1970s and 80s. We speak to Tariq Mehmood about the Asian Youth Movement, the United Black Youth League, and his seminal trial as one of the so-called Bradford 12.

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On this day, 18 August 1823, the Demerara rebellion (in modern-day Guyana) saw over 10,000 enslaved African people in the British colony go from plantation to plantation stealing weapons, locking up their enslavers and putting them in stocks.
On this day, 18 August 1945, the Japanese Ministry of the Interior ordered police to be setting up "sexual comfort stations" (i.e., brothels) for US occupation troops, just before the start of surrender talks (content note: sexual violence).
This date, 18 August in 1936, is the most likely date in which the gay socialist poet Federico García Lorca was taken from his jail cell and executed on the order of right-wing general Francisco Franco's military forces. The exact circumstances of his death are unclear, but after being arrested on August 16 he was probably killed on August 18 in the early hours of the morning.
New podcast out for everyone! First in a double podcast episode about the life and work of Howard Zinn, historian, World War II veteran and activist, in his own words, 100 years since his birth. These episodes include audio from one of the last, if not the last, interview before his sudden death in 2010. This part covers his early life, work, World War II and the civil rights movement. Listen and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, your favourite podcast app or here on our website: https://workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e69-70-howard-zinn-100/
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