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“The strike has links to a far longer story of female south Asian protest”

It’s late on a Sunday evening in a street in west London, and the air is thick with the smell of freshly fried pakoras. Pammi Bains, who lives in one of the terraced houses, has been cooking.

Pammi was part of a strike action that disrupted Heathrow airport for two days in the summer of 2005. It was an act of resistance with links to a

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