A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. Asylum and migration 21 November: The malnourished body of an 18-year-old Afghan refugee who froze to death is found in an abandoned industrial building in northern Bulgaria near the Serbian border, the tenth known death of a refugee
A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. Asylum & migration 20 September: The House of Commons European Scrutiny Committee publishes: EU Asylum Reform, download the report here. 12 October: The FN-backed mayor of the southern French town of Béziers launches a referendum on whether the town
A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. Violence and harassment 24 August: Self-defence classes for Muslims and others from BAME communities in Swansea are launched, following concerns about racist violence in the locality. (BBC News, 24 August 2016) 1 September: A man who racially abuses
A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. Violence & harassment 22 August: Freedom of Information requests reveal that British Transport Police recorded 119 ‘race hate offences’ in the two weeks following the EU referendum, an increase in incidents of 78 per cent over the same
Below we reproduce an excerpt from an article in the April 2016 issue of Race & Class, ‘The deradicalisation of education: terror, youth and the assault on learning’. Across the UK, schools of all types and levels now have anti-radicalisation policies in which they pledge to be ‘vigilant’ in ‘safeguarding against radicalisation’ – which, as
A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. Asylum & migration 27 January: The EU issues a draft anti-smuggling law which experts say could criminalise volunteers providing help to refugees and equate rescue with smuggling. Other proposals would require volunteers to register. (Statewatch, 27 January 2016)
An emergency demonstration against violence towards migrants on the French-UK border. Sunday 14 February 2016, 12pm French Embassy, 58 Knightsbridge, London SW1X 7JT Related links Facebook event listing View a flyer here Read & sign a letter to French Ambassador here
A meeting discussing questions of refugee migration, racism and oppression, imperialism, borders and free movement. Saturday 20 February 2016, 10.30-6pm Khalili Lecture Theatre, SOAS University, London WC1H 0XG Speakers include: Guy Smallman – photojournalist and filmmaker Abdulaziz Almashi – Syria Solidarity UK Mona Dohle – co-founder of London2Calais Related links Event details Get tickets here London2Calais
A day of action calling for safe passage of refugees. Saturday 27 February 2016, 12 noon onwards Actions taking place: Belgium – Brussels Germany – Frankfurt Greece – Athens Sweden – Halmstad Portugal – Lisboa, Porto, Coimbra Spain – Avila, Extremadura, Madrid, Málaga, Murcia, Oviedo, Pamplona, Sevilla, Tenerife, Valencia, Vigo, Zaragoza Turkey – Bodrum United Kingdom – London Related links European March for Refugee Rights – London
A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. Asylum & migration 13 January: Refugees including children are walking through Russia to Finland in temperatures of minus 30 degrees, according to reports. (Independent Barents Observer, 13 January 2016) 14 January: The Solicitors Regulation Authority announces a review
