DoomsdaysCW<p>The British Asians who fought <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fascism</span></a> in the seventies</p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BlairPeach" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BlairPeach</span></a>’s death 40 years ago followed the killing of a schoolboy – two murders that ignited an <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AntiRacist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AntiRacist</span></a> struggle.</p><p>By Gouri Sharma<br>23 Apr 2019</p><p>London, United Kingdom – "On a sunny Saturday in June 1976, teenager Suresh Grover was in Southall chatting with a friend outside the Dominion Cinema when he noticed a police officer standing next to a pool of blood.</p><p>"'I asked him, ‘Did somebody die there?' Grover told Al Jazeera. 'And he turned to me and said ‘It’s just Indian blood’. He was very rude and left the scene soon after. I was shocked – this was an officer saying it was just Indian blood and not of equal worth.' </p><p>"The blood had flowed from the body of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GurdipSinghChaggar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GurdipSinghChaggar</span></a>.</p><p>"The 18-year-old student was killed the night before in a racist attack in the west <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/London" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>London</span></a> district, which had recently become home to a large <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SouthAsian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SouthAsian</span></a> population, particularly from India’s northern <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Punjab" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Punjab</span></a> state.</p><p>"Grover, now 62, said: 'The next day we went to the police station, surrounded it, made speeches and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Southall" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Southall</span></a> came to a standstill. By the end of the afternoon around 5,000 people – men, women, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Asians" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Asians</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AfroCaribbeans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AfroCaribbeans</span></a> – had gathered in a show of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/unity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>unity</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/solidarity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>solidarity</span></a> and defiance. It was the first time this sort of protest had happened and it had a profound impact on Southall. That day, the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SouthallYouthMovement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SouthallYouthMovement</span></a> was born.” </p><p>Read more:<br><a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2019/4/23/the-british-asians-who-fought-fascism-in-the-seventies" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">aljazeera.com/features/2019/4/</span><span class="invisible">23/the-british-asians-who-fought-fascism-in-the-seventies</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ACAB" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ACAB</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Fascism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Racism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Racism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AntiImmigrant" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AntiImmigrant</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EnglandRiots" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EnglandRiots</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/UKRiots" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UKRiots</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BristolRiots" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BristolRiots</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Skinheads" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Skinheads</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NeoNazis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NeoNazis</span></a></p>