The Stephen Lawrence Research Centre (SLRC) opened its doors in 2019 and is a uniquely positioned physical space in the UK Higher Education landscape to study the politics of race and racisms in its many forms and guises. The SLRC is the current home of the Stephen Lawrence Exhibition and the Stephen Lawrence Archive. The archive was kindly donated to De Montfort University by Baroness Doreen Lawrence of Clarendon, Stephen's mother and former Chancellor of DMU and has inspired the conversations in this series in memory of Stephen.
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The Stephen Lawrence Research Centre (SLRC) opened its doors in 2019 and is a uniquely positioned physical space in the UK Higher Education landscape to study the politics of race and racisms in its many forms and guises. The SLRC is the current home of the Stephen Lawrence Exhibition and the Stephen Lawrence Archive. The archive was kindly donated to De Montfort University by Baroness Doreen Lawrence of Clarendon, Stephen's mother and former Chancellor of DMU and has inspired the conversations in this series in memory of Stephen.
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November 24, 2025
S2 E3: The Coconuts Trial with Marieha Hussain
<p class="MsoNormal">In this episode, Dr Fatima Rajina is joined by Marieha Hussain to talk about her experience of the Coconuts trial. A case that saw the political activist being charged with, and eventually proven innocent of, a racially aggravated public order offence for showcasing a satirical placard labelling Rishi Sunak and Suella Braverman as "coconuts" prompting the fundamental question "Who has the right to police your language"?…</p> <p class= "wp-block wp-block-kubio-text position-relative wp-block-kubio-text__text style-JdrlMf62s-text style-local-36-text" data-kubio="kubio/text">In November 2023, Marieha was arrested for displaying a placard labelling prominent exponents of the then-Tory government as "coconuts" during a pro-Palestine protest. According to the charges put on her, the term coconut was equivalent to a racist slur. Yet, Black and Brown activists have historically used it to call out members of their communities who aligned with colonial powers and white supremacists.</p> <p class= "wp-block wp-block-kubio-text position-relative wp-block-kubio-text__text style-JdrlMf62s-text style-local-37-text" data-kubio="kubio/text">Read the background and outcome of the Coconuts case here: <a href= "https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/coconuts-trial-woman-acquitted-palestine-protest-placard" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">'Coconuts' trial: Woman acquitted over Palestine protest placard | Middle East Eye</a><br /> *By including the above external links the SLRC are not endorsing any content accessible through these links and are meant for further information only.</p> <p class= "wp-block wp-block-kubio-text position-relative wp-block-kubio-text__text style-JdrlMf62s-text style-local-39-text" data-kubio="kubio/text">Hosted by Dr Fatima Rajina</p> <p>Guest: Marieha Hussain</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Dr Fatima Rajina is an SLRC Legacy In Action Senior Research Fellow whose work focuses on race, dress and language. Recent publications have appeared in Sociology, The Sociological Review and Identities. Dr Rajina's book <u><a title= "https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526194947/" href= "https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526194947/" target= "_blank" rel="noopener">British Bangladeshi Muslims in the East End</a></u> is available from Manchester University Press.</p> <p class= "wp-block wp-block-kubio-text position-relative wp-block-kubio-text__text style-JdrlMf62s-text style-local-42-text" data-kubio="kubio/text">Marieha Hussain is psychology teacher, mother, and Palestine activist.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style= "color: #0d0d0d; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 242; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #0D0D0D; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: 'lumm=95000 lumo=5000';"> <strong>Produced by Weyland McKenzie-Witter at Nello and the People's Production Ltd</strong><br /></span></span><span style= "font-size: 10pt;">Twitter/X: <a href= "https://twitter.com/Weylandmck" target="_blank" rel= "noopener">@weylandmck</a></span><br /> <span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style= "color: #0d0d0d; 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line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; color: #0070c0; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Join the SLRC mailing list <strong><a href= "http://eepurl.com/iilYCT">here</a>:</strong></span></span><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style= "color: #0d0d0d; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 242; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #0D0D0D; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: 'lumm=95000 lumo=5000';"> <span style= "color: #056bd0; mso-themecolor: hyperlink; mso-themetint: 242; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #056BD0; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: hyperlink; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; 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March 31, 2025
S2 E2: Migration, Marginalisation and Mobilisation: Leicester's South Asian Diaspora and Labour Rights Activism
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Leicester is home to a large South Asian community and often praised for being one of the most diverse cities in the UK - presented as a model of multicultural integration. However, labour exploitation strongly impacts the poorer demographics in the city, especially people with a recent history of migration that are employed in garment manufacturing.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">In May 2024, we dedicated an episode of our podcast to the Imperial Typewriters Strike of 1974 to mark the 50<sup>th</sup> anniversary of this seminal event in the political history of the South Asian diaspora in the UK and of Leicester’s trade union movement. The following September, Francesco Sani moderated a roundtable of activists and trade unionists to understand what has changed in the city and what has stayed the same. Drawing from their experience of community and political activism, our guests Kaenat Yussufo (Labour Behind the Label), Shaista Jakhura (Panahghar) and Tom Barker (A Unison trade unionist from Ashfield Academy, Leicester) unpack the major dynamics that have led to the current state of affairs.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">For more information on Labour Behind the Label: <a href= "https://labourbehindthelabel.org">https://labourbehindthelabel.org</a>. You can read Labour Behind the Label’s 2020 report on Boohoo here: <a href= "https://labourbehindthelabel.org/report-boohoo-covid-19-the-people-behind-the-profit"> https://labourbehindthelabel.org/report-boohoo-covid-19-the-people-behind-the-profit</a>. For info about the campaigns Labour Behind the Label is currently engaged in: <a href= "https://labourbehindthelabel.org/good-jobs-for-garment-workers">https://labourbehindthelabel.org/good-jobs-for-garment-workers</a> (Petition in support of Leicester garment workers); <a href= "https://labourbehindthelabel.org/supermarkets-back-leicester">https://labourbehindthelabel.org/supermarkets-back-leicester</a> (ASDA, Tesco, M&S: support UK garment workers!).</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">For more info on Panahghar: <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><a href= "https://www.safehouse.org.uk">https://www.safehouse.org.uk</a></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">For more information on the history of the Ashfield Academy trade dispute: <a href= "https://socialistalternative.info/2024/03/20/new-socialist-alternative-publication-how-workers-can-win-lessons-from-the-strike-victory-at-ash-field-academy"> https://socialistalternative.info/2024/03/20/new-socialist-alternative-publication-how-workers-can-win-lessons-from-the-strike-victory-at-ash-field-academy</a></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style= "mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The text quoted in the podcast comes from Giulio Palermo, “Counter-power: a Marxist View— An Ontological Enquiry” Cambridge Journal of Economics 48-5 (September 2024), 843–868. For some additional perspectives on political activism, labour rights and decolonisation in the UK context: Preeti Dhillon, The Shoulders We Stand On: How Black and Brown People Fought for Change in the United Kingdom (London: Dialogue Books, 2023); Adam Elliott-Cooper, “Abolishing institutional racism” Race & Class 65-1 (April 2023), 100-118. We also recommend the blog series Decolonising Economics: <a href= "https://developingeconomics.org/blog-series-decolonising-economics"> https://developingeconomics.org/blog-series-decolonising-economics</a>.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Guests: Tom Barker, Shaista Jakhura, Kaenat Yussufo<br /> Host: Francesco Sani</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style= "color: #0d0d0d; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 242; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #0D0D0D; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: 'lumm=95000 lumo=5000';"> <strong>Produced by Weyland McKenzie-Witter at Nello and the People’s Production Ltd</strong><br /></span></span><span style= "font-size: 10pt;">Twitter/X: <a href= "https://twitter.com/Weylandmck" target="_blank" rel= "noopener">@weylandmck</a></span><br /> <span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style= "color: #0d0d0d; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 242; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #0D0D0D; 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S2 E1: The Imperial Typewriters Strike of 1974: The South Asian Diaspora in the UK, Trade Unionism, and the Struggle for Social Justice
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><strong>This episode is dedicated to the memory of Shardaben Chandarana, the leader of the 1974 Imperial Typewriters Strike.</strong></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">The Imperial Typewriters Strike was a major and iconic event in the history of South Asian Trade Unionism in the United Kingdom. It comes within a broader history of struggle for recognition and social justice, racial discrimination, and attempts towards integration and dialogue.<br /> <br /></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style= "color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">In this episode Dr Fatima Rajina is joined by Amrit Wilson and Professor Sundari Anitha as they discuss the Imperial Typewriters Strike of 1974.<br /> <br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">More information on the strike, as well as visual documentation, is available from the National Archives: <a href= "https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/explore-the-collection/stories/the-imperial-typewriters-dispute/#h2.going-on-strike"> The Imperial Typewriters dispute – The National Archives</a><br /> <br /></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">To place the strike within the history of South Asia political activism and for some first-hand accounts of the events, you can check out the extensive work of Amrit Wilson and Professor Sundari Anitha on the topic: <em>Finding a Voice: Asian Women in Britain</em> (Wakefield (Quebec, Canada): Daraja Press, 2019 (first edition 1978)); Amrit Wilson, <em>Dreams, Questions, Struggles: South Asian Women</em> in Britain (London: Pluto Press, 2006); Sundari Anitha and her collaborators is a key reference: Linda McDowell, Sundari Anitha and Ruth Pearson, (2014) ‘Striking Narratives: class, gender and ethnicity in the ‘Great Grunwick Strike’, London, UK, 1976–1978,’ <em>Women’s History Review</em>, 23-4 (2014), 595–619; Sundari Anitha and Ruth Pearson, <em>Striking Women: Struggles & Strategies of South Asian Women Workers from Grunwick to Gate Gourmet</em> (London: Lawrence & Wishart, 2018).<br /> <br /></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">This shorter piece by Amrit Wilson can be a good place to start: <a href= "https://ceasefiremagazine.co.uk/we-lions-mr-manager-revisiting-great-grunwick-strike/"> "We are the lions, Mr. Manager": Revisiting the Great Grunwick Strike | Ceasefire Magazine</a>. For additional resources on South Asian women’s activism in trade unions, the resources made available on <a href= "https://www.striking-women.org">https://www.striking-women.org</a> can provide guidance and insight. This comic book represents an excellent introduction to their resources: <a href= "https://www.striking-women.org/sites/default/files/striking_women_for_download_opt.pdf"> striking_women_for_download_opt.pdf (striking-women.org)</a>.<span style= "mso-spacerun: yes;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">For a history of Western trade unionism within a global and transnational perspective: Ad Knotter, <em>Transformations of Trade Unionism: Comparative and Transnational Perspectives on Workers Organizing in Europe and the United States, Eighteenth to Twenty-First Centuries</em> (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2018).<br /> <br /></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">For a broader picture of the history and current state of South Asian trade union activism in the UK, we signal the activities of the Indian Workers Association of Great Britain: <a href="https://iwagb.org/">Indian Workers Association (G.B.) - (iwagb.org)</a>.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style= "color: #0d0d0d; 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