Southall anti-racism campaigner slams Government claims that institutional racism is over

Site Admin • 15 May 2021
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source: My London News
published: 6 April 2021

One of London's most experienced anti-racism campaigners has slammed a government report claiming that institutional racism no longer exists in Britain. Suresh Grover who is these days a local legend, was one of the active leaders of the youth movement established in the aftermath of the murder of Gurdip Chaggar in Southall in 1976.


Mr Grover's family came to the UK from Kenya in 1966 for a better life and a British education. But what he saw and heard growing up in the 1970s changed him.


Chaggar was just 18 years old when he was brutally stabbed to death in Southall, West London on the night of Friday, June 4, 1976. This unprovoked murder of a Sikh engineering student, targeted during a quiet night out with friends by a gang of white youths, had an immediate impact. Over the following weekend hundreds of local Asians took to the streets to express their anger over Chaggar’s death.


The incident pushed Asian youth to challenge violent racism and police response throughout the UK. After a school teacher called Blair Peach was killed during anti-racist demonstration in Southall in 1979, and hundreds of locals were charged with causing disturbances, Mr Grover was one of key activists who established legal defence for those that were charged.

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