Remembering ‘Comrade Sak’

Pryamvada Gopal write this article for Tribune, on Shapurji Saklavatka, the first MP of colour elected on a Labour ticket.  He turned his parliamentary seat into a vehicle to fight both capitalism and imperialism.  The article is excerpted from Insurgent Empire – Anticolonial Resistance and British Dissent  published by Verso. REMEMBERING ‘COMRADE SAK’ On 17 June 1927…