Racial discrimination in employment? The Bristol bus boycott of 1963

Some of the leaders of the boycott

A student dissertation with lots of information about the 1963 boycott of Bristol's buses against the ban on recruiting workers of colour enforced by the TGWU union and the state-owned Bristol Omnibus Company.

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Black and white on the buses: the 1963 colour bar dispute in Bristol

A detailed pamphlet by Madge Dresser on the Bristol bus boycott, when a mass campaign defeated the…

Police guard Imperial Typewriters from a strike March, August 1974

The Imperial Typewriters strike, 1974 - Ron Ramdin

An account of the three-month strike by hundreds of mostly East African Asian women workers at the Imperial Typewriters plant in Leicester,…

Article on Courtauld's Red Scar Mill strike in the Lancashire Evening Post.

The Courtaulds Red Scar Mill strike, 1965

A short history of the unofficial strike at Courtauld's Red Scar Mill in Preston, 1965, the first of what would become a long list of significant…

AYM members from Bradford, Sheffield and Birmingham.

The politics of Britain's Asian Youth Movements - Anandi Ramamurthy

Excellent study into the politics of the Asian Youth Movements, groups of radical working class…