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DoomsdaysCW @[email protected] · 2024-08-04 · 19:27 UTC

CW: CW - Mention of violence and racism

The British Asians who fought #fascism in the seventies

#BlairPeach’s death 40 years ago followed the killing of a schoolboy – two murders that ignited an #AntiRacist struggle.

By Gouri Sharma
23 Apr 2019

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.

"'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.'

"The blood had flowed from the body of #GurdipSinghChaggar.

"The 18-year-old student was killed the night before in a racist attack in the west #London district, which had recently become home to a large #SouthAsian population, particularly from India’s northern #Punjab state.

"Grover, now 62, said: 'The next day we went to the police station, surrounded it, made speeches and #Southall came to a standstill. By the end of the afternoon around 5,000 people – men, women, #Asians, #AfroCaribbeans – had gathered in a show of #unity, #solidarity and defiance. It was the first time this sort of protest had happened and it had a profound impact on Southall. That day, the #SouthallYouthMovement was born.”

#ACAB #Fascism #Racism #AntiImmigrant #EnglandRiots #UKRiots #BristolRiots #Skinheads #NeoNazis

#fascism #blairpeach #antiracist #gurdipsinghchaggar #london #southasian

Freedom Press @[email protected] · 2023-05-24 · 11:33 UTC

Statement on recent Kill the Bill sentencing
This May we have seen another round of sentencing for at least 4 comrades, for standing up to the police during the 2021 Kill the Bill uprising in Bristol.
https://freedomnews.org.uk/2023/05/24/statement-on-recent-kill-the-bill-sentencing/
#abolition #BristolRiots #KillTheBill #KillTheBillSentencing #PrisonerSupport #Solidarity #TillAllAreFree

#abolition #bristolriots #killthebill #killthebillsentencing #prisonersupport #solidarity

Freedom Press @[email protected] · 2023-03-25 · 08:30 UTC

Two years on, Bristol still fights
On Tuesday 21st March, hundreds of Bristolians marched to Bridewell Police Station to mark the two year anniversary of the Kill the Bill uprising, and to stand in solidarity with all those facing police and state repression.

We marched to show that despite the brutal police violence of
https://freedomnews.org.uk/2023/03/25/two-years-on-bristol-still-fights/
#BridewellPoliceStation #Bristol #bristolriots #KilltheBill #KTbprisoners #prisonersolidarity

#bridewellpolicestation #bristol #bristolriots #killthebill #ktbprisoners #prisonersolidarity

Freedom Press @[email protected] · 2022-12-31 · 09:06 UTC

Legal roundup ’22
A seasonal round up from your friendly ACAB Magi. No gold, frankincense or myrrh but three key messages from the year in the courts:

1. Sentences are getting waaaay harsher.

2. The court system has slowed to a crawl.

3. The days of “no jail for peaceful protestors” are finished.

Sentencing

“You lot say that e
https://freedomnews.org.uk/2022/12/31/legal-roundup-22/
#ACAB #bristolriots #courtsupport #Protest #roundup #Solidarity #theyearin #theyearinlegal