| Description | Tracks 1 - 5: Discussion with Jagmohan Joshi and Tersan Singh.
Track 6: Silence
Tracks 1 - 4 primarily involves Parker and Joshi. Racist employment practices at British Leyland (BL) are discussed, and the effectiveness of the trade unions in combatting this at BL and other companies is considered. The impact of Derek Robinson (Red Robbo - a leading trades unionist at BL Longbridge) and the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) are assessed. The nature of ethnic minority support for the British labour movement is discussed.
Joshi explains his view that racism is an ideological practice. He also describes Karl Marx's description of the first Indian War of Independence of 1857. India's post-independence economic performance is also assessed.
Track 5 includes a description by Tersan Singh of the site of the Jallianwala Bagh Massacre at Amritsar, where the British Indian Army shot many people in 1919. Charles Parker observes that whilst many British people will have heard of the 'Black Hole of Calcutta', they will be unlikely to have heard of this atrocity.
Total: 30:35 minutes
Dubber's reference number: PLA KF565D0564480 |