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Guerrilla History

Defiance - Fighting the Far Right in Britain w/ Rajesh Thind & Shahnaz Ali

Guerrilla History

Henry

Education, History

4.8669 Ratings

🗓️ 9 August 2024

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

In this timely episode of Guerrilla History, Adnan discusses Defiance: Fighting the Far Right w/ Rajesh Thind, a director & producer of the three part Channel 4 documentary series produced by Rogan Productions in association with Riz Ahmed's Lefthanded Films. The series is an immersive social history that brings the South Asian activists who combatted and organized successfully against far right racist and anti-immigrant violence in the 1970s & early 1980s to our screens.  Exclusive to Guerrilla History, one of those veteran activists Shahnaz Ali joined the conversation to talk about her experiences organizing in the late 1970's and 80's in Bradford, and since then, fighting for equality and justice in UK society and the National Health Service specifically. This history is incredibly relevant for the resurgence of far right violence and rioting being witnessed right now on city streets across the UK.
 
 
Rajesh Thind is an award-winning director, writer & producer of films, tv, stage & prose known for tackling challenging & complex subjects.  Keep up to date with his work by checking out his website and by following him on twitter @RajeshThind

Shahnaz Ali OBE is former Director of Equality, Inclusion and Human Rights NHSNW. Now a freelance consultant Making Equality Work and Lay Council member for University of Bradford.  You can read more about her work at the Nursing Narratives website, her Wikipedia page, and on LinkedIn.

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You don't remember Den Ben-Boo?

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No!

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The same thing happened in Algeria, in Africa.

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They didn't have anything but a rank.

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The French had all these highly mechanized instruments of warfare, but they put some guerrilla action on.

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Hello and welcome to guerrilla history, the podcast that acts as a reconnaissance report of global history for the activist left and aims to use the lessons

0:39.6

of history to analyze the present. I'm one of your co-hosts, Adnan Hussein. Unfortunately,

0:47.1

Henry couldn't be with us today, but we look forward to having Henry back on again, Henry

0:52.8

Hakamaki in our next episode. But before I introduced

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the guests and the topic of the episode, I'd just like to remind listeners that they can help

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support the show and allow us to continuing making episodes like this by joining us on

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Patreon slash Gorilla History. That's two R's, two L's, and you can keep up to date

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with the show by following us on Twitter at Gorilla underscore Pod. Again, two R's, two L's underscore

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pod. Well, regular listeners, you will know that in the past several months, we've had a couple

1:26.1

of episodes on the topic of the history of black and brown people in the past several months, we've had a couple of episodes on the topic of the history

1:28.7

of black and brown people in the UK, United Kingdom. We had a conversation with Professor

1:34.9

Hakim Adi about his book, which was nominated for the prestigious Wolfson Prize in History,

1:41.1

entitled African and Caribbean People in Britain, a history. And that is a monumental

1:47.4

historical resource chronicling the evidence and experiences of black people in Britain from ancient

1:53.4

times to today. And last month, we spoke with Priety Dillon about her wonderful new book, The Shoulders

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We Stand on, How Black

2:01.7

and Brown People Fought for Change in the UK, detailing the era of the 1960s and 70s up until

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