In 1976, a group of predominantly East African Asian women workers in London launched one of the iconic industrial disputes of the decade.

For the next two years, the women fought against their employer, the police, the Labour government, the media, the court system and the leadership of the trade union movement.

While it didn't achieve its immediate goals, it was successful in galvanising a sea change

in the workers' movement and the struggle against racism in the UK.

This is working class history.

At the morning, just upen alzata,

Oh, Bella, chow, bella, chow, bella, chow, la Mata'clock.

But like all the matina.

Before we get started today, I need to explain something.

Long-term listeners may recall our first ever episode being about the Grummick Strike, but like all of our earliest episodes, it was basically

raw audio from our interview about the dispute, so the sound quality was pretty bad, and

there was no narrative to fill in any gaps, explain context, and pull the story together.

In addition to producing new podcast episodes, we're going to be

going back over our earliest episodes to re-edit and release them in the new narrative format we use

for all of our later episodes. And this is our third, re-edited and re-released episode now. So the

interview audio will have the same quality as before, but there'll be extra audio clips from

participants who were involved at the time, as well, but there'll be extra audio clips from participants

who were involved at the time, as well as added narrative with better quality audio to

explain things better and hopefully tell the story in a more cohesive way.

The original interview audio isn't the best quality because we didn't really know what we

were doing at the time, and we recorded it in an absolutely freezing union office in North

West London, around the corner from where the strike happened.

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