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Our new pamphlet tells the story of Shapurji Saklatvala, the first BAME Labour MP, elected in Battersea North (South West London) in 1922. In numerous respects, he was no ordinary MP. Representing a strong and radical local labour movement, as well workers' and anti-colonial struggles much more widely, as an MP he suffered ostracism, police surveillance, arrests, imprisonment and exile from India in order to wage the fight against capitalism, racism and imperialism, and for working-class self-liberation.
Our new pamphlet tells the story of Shapurji Saklatvala, the first BAME Labour MP, elected in Battersea North (South West London) in 1922. In numerous respects, he was no ordinary MP. Representing a strong and radical local labour movement, as well workers' and anti-colonial struggles much more widely, as an MP he suffered ostracism, police surveillance, arrests, imprisonment and exile from India in order to wage the fight against capitalism, racism and imperialism, and for working-class self-liberation.
Sunak joins a select club of Indian-origin legislators at the top of politics and government in Europe: Antonio Costa, Prime Minister in Portugal since 2015, and Leo.