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Here to stay, here to fight: How Asians transformed the British working class

Posted on 19th December 2016 by Camilla

During the blisteringly hot summer of 1976 a group of Asian workers, predominantly women, walked out on strike at a small factory in north west London. Most were recently arrived migrants from Uganda, Tanzania and Kenya and were as unlikely… Continue Reading →

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