lakshmi patel remembering the grunwick strike, which inspired widespread trade union support.ext story is about mercedes doretti, a forensic anthropologist from argentina who founded a team dedicated to searching for the remains of the missing victims of war atrocities and state violence. in their search for the truth, her team has exhumed remains in more than 30 countries, among them el salvador, the scene of a brutal civil war in the 1980s. we end up exhuming the remains of close to 140 kids that were all in this very small one—room house. we were exhuming all these little dresses and whatever they have in their pockets. those kind of details are actually the ones that kind of devastate you, they're very hard, yeah. i started doing this forensic work on human rights cases since 1984 when democracy returned to argentina after quite brutal military government. i was a student. most of us were, just finishing, very close to graduating. it wasn't something that we were thinking, "0h, let's form an international organisation that will do this globally," or anything like that. it

stand for workers�* rights and they captured the imagination of many other trade unionists, as lakshmi pateld me. mrs desai, her 220th. day on the picket line, was marked by a presnetation. presentation on behalf of the north west london branch of usdaw, the shopworkers union! to mrs desai, treasurer of the strike committee. thank you very much, madam. translation: mrs desai| was a very strong woman. she had made up her mind to bring the union into the factory. because our women were treated badly. we believed that if women have so many rights in this country, then why can't we have them too? grunwick relied upon the new influx of asians from east africa to supply the workforce. commonly thought passive and hard working, the tables were about to turn. translation: in the grunwick- factory, there was a big glass room where the manager used to sit. he would observe us all from that room. he would keep an eye on us. if you were going to the toilet and it took too long, then he would ask why, "what were you up to?" the unlikely leader of the grunwick strike would challenge the stereotype of the

lakshmi patel remembering the grunwick strike, which inspired widespread trade union support.cedes doretti, a forensic anthropologist from argentina who founded a team dedicated to searching for the remains of the missing victims of war atrocities and state violence. in their search for the truth, her team has exhumed remains in more than 30 countries, among them el salvador, the scene of a brutal civil war in the 1980s. we end up exhuming the remains of close to 140 kids that were all in this very small one—room house. we were exhuming all these little dresses and whatever they have in their pockets. those kind of details are actually the ones that kind of devastate you, they're very hard, yeah. i started doing this forensic work on human rights cases since 1984 when democracy returned to argentina after quite brutal military government. i was a student. most of us were, just finishing, very close to graduating. it wasn't something that we were thinking, "oh, let's form an international organisation "that will do this globally," or anything like that. it was more like, if we