Asian Youth Movement

Content by or about Asian Youth Movement organisations in the UK in the 1970s and 80s.

Bradford 12

The struggle of Asian workers in Britain - Race Today

Pamphlet published in 1983 by the Race Today Collective containing three articles and sets of…

Bradford 12: Self-Defence is No Offence.

Bradford 12: Self-Defence is No Offence

Anandi Ramamurthy's history of the Bradford 12 trial, in which twelve members of the United Black Youth League were arrested on conspiracy…

United Black Youth League, Bradford.

Emerging conflicts in the Asian Youth Movements

Anandi Ramamurthy analyses the emerging divisions within the Asian Youth Movements around the issue of state funding. One faction opted to accept…

Demonstration of the Anwar Ditta Defence Campaign.

Women and the Asian Youth Movements

Anandi Ramamurthy analyses the involvement of women within the Asian Youth Movements and how the groups engaged (or didn't) with issues of gender…

Asian Youth Movement poster in solidarity with the 1984-85 miners' strike.

Trade Unionism and the Asian Youth Movements

A look at the engagement of Asian Youth Movement activists with workers' struggles and the British trade union movement.

Kala Tara: paper of the Asian Youth Movement Bradford

Partial online archive of Kala Tara, the newspaper of the Bradford branch of the Asian Youth…

Newham 8 Defence Campaign poster

Newham 8 Defence Campaign - Bulletin 1

A bulletin for the Newham 8 campaign giving the history and circumstances of the arrest of the men. Supporters are urged to raise awareness for…

Bradford 12

Self Defence is No Offence - The Bradford 12

Newsletter produced by Leeds Other Paper and the Bradford 12 campaign shortly after they won their court battle, having been arrested for…

Kala Sho or Black Consciousness, April 1986

Newsletter of the Sheffield Asian Youth Movement, May 1986

March in Sheffield

Sharrow Action Bulletin - May 1989

Sharrow Action Committee Against Racism/Fascism's May 1989 bulletin, detailing racist attacks in Sheffield and community response, criticising…

Come what may, we are here to stay

Kala Mazdoor - Issue 1

The Asian Youth Movement of the late 1970s and early 1980s involved thousands of young people in radical politics, focused on resistance to the…

Here to Stay, Here to Fight

Kala Tara - Paper of the Asian Youth Movement Bradford - Issue 1

The Asian Youth Movement of the late 1970s and early 1980s involved thousands of young people in…