A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. ASYLUM, MIGRATION, CITIZENSHIP Asylum and migrant rights 2 September: An analysis of Home Office figures reveals that between 2016-18 the Home Office refused at least 3,100 asylum claims from lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) nationals from countries
A free public talk by Dr Piers Robinson, co-director organisation for propaganda studies, on how ‘fake news’ and propaganda has undermined democracy and enabled war. 2 October 2019, 7pm – 10 pm at Sydenham Centre, 44a Sydenham Road London SE26 5QX Free tickets Hosted by Lewisham West and Penge Constituency Labour Party For more information
The event, which falls within London Challenge Poverty Week, will address human rights and attitudes related to economic injustice and the causes and consequences of poverty. 16 October 2019 at Resource for London at 7pm. Speakers include Amina Gichinga, an organiser with London Renters Union, Jean Stallings and Diana Skelton of All Together in Dignity
A night of readings and resistance hosted by Wasafiri exploring literature’s power to create ‘home’ in hostile environments for people on the margins. 15 October 2019, Free word centre, London Tickets £7-£10 (£2 unwaged tickets available) 7pm – 9pm With Roger Robinson, Winsome Pinnock, Inua Ellams and Bridget Minamore More information here
A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. ASYLUM AND MIGRATION Asylum and migrant rights 18 August: Médecins sans Frontières spokesperson reacts with disbelief to UNHCR official Vincent Cochelet’s tweets expressing concern for ‘the radicalisation of migratory dreams’, which he explains as refugees’ rejection of jobs
If Boris Johnson’s government survives, the chaos of the immigration system it plans to impose will lead to untold misery. During the Tory leadership campaign, Boris Johnson set out his approach to immigration policy: to make it easier for highly skilled migrants to enter, and tougher for those who ‘abuse our hospitality’ – the usual
A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. ASYLUM AND MIGRATION Asylum and migrant rights 3 August: Italy grants refugee status to Medhanie Tesfamariam Berhe, the Eritrean man who served three years in prison after being mistaken for an international human trafficker. (Guardian, 3 August 2019)
A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. ASYLUM AND MIGRATION Asylum and migrant rights 22 July: Channel 4’s Dispatches exposes the ‘golden visa’ programme, revealing how easy it is for those with £2 million to obtain settlement in the UK with investor visas using criminally
Recent initiatives on school exclusions miss the point, ‘alternative provision’ has been transformed into a business opportunity. According to A. Sivanandan, ‘the adult occupies the world of the child far more than the child occupies the world of the adult.’ [1] Nowhere is this statement truer than in the realm of education. The British education
As the notion of a Green New Deal rapidly spreads as an answer to capitalism in US and UK media and political circles, our lead article in July 2019 asks if Green capitalism can propose a real solution to the ecological crisis and the human crises of poverty, austerity, immigration and racism. Green capitalism and
