A night of panel discussions, short films, dramatic monologues, poetry, and probing questions exploring the racial state under the War on Terror. Speakers include: Nisha Kapoor Liz Fekete Ken Ferro Suhaiymah Manzooh-Khan Hamja Ahsan Saturday 8 September 2018 RichMix, 35-47 Bethnal Green Road, London E1 6LA Related Links Tickets for event Show map
Geography: Northern Ireland
Calendar of racism and resistance (20 July – 15 August 2018)
A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. Asylum and migration 18 July: Liverpool City Council passes a cross-party motion calling on the government to end the indefinite detention of asylum seekers, saying the system is ‘inhumane’ and ‘not fit for purpose’. (These Walls Must Fall,
Daily Mail – ‘you’re in a league of your own’
A French Muslim activist gives the Daily Mail a lesson on how to avoid racial and religious stereotyping. French activist Marwan Muhammad was so incensed by a Daily Mail article that linked ‘immigration on a mammoth scale’ to drug dealing, crime and poverty in the French neighbourhood of Saint-Denis, in northern Paris, that he sent a
UFFC 20th Anniversary Procession
The twentieth annual United Families & Friends Campaign remembrance march for those that have died in custody. Saturday 27 October 2018, 1pm Assemble at Nelson’s Column, Trafalgar Square, London WC2N Related links United Families & Friends Campaign Migrant Media 4WardEverUK.
The lethal consequences of the ‘hostile environment’
On 30 June, 23-year-old Mustafa Dawood, who was from the Darfur region of Sudan, was found dead after falling from a building in Newport, Wales as immigration officers carried out a raid at a car wash. The Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) is investigating the death, and its press release noted: ‘A 23 year
Calendar of racism and resistance (6 – 19 July 2018)
A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. Asylum and migration July: Sentina D’Artanyan-Bristol, the mother of Dexter Bristol, ‘a child of the Windrush generation, who died this March, following a year of being rejected as a British citizen’ is raising funds to cover the legal
The Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal is coming to London
A call for migrant rights organisations to sign up to support the Tribunal and to submit evidence. The London hearing of the Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal (PPT), the international public opinion tribunal established in the 1970s to draw attention to human rights violations worldwide, is scheduled for early November. One of a series of hearings on
Macpherson definition misunderstood in Labour Party anti-Semitism definition
As the Parliamentary Labour Party and Labour’s National Executive Committee meet to discuss the adoption of a contentious definition of anti-Semitism, the IRR draws attention to its evidence to the Chakrabarti Review, submitted two years ago. In June 2016, we drew attention to the dangers of introducing too much subjectivity into the definition of racism,
Calendar of racism and resistance (22 June – 5 July 2018)
A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. Asylum and migration 21 June: The Home Office publishes a sixty-page ‘Statement of Intent’ for an EU citizens’ settlement scheme post-Brexit. Download the document here; read a critique here. 24 June: A parliamentary written answer reveals that MPs
The past in the present
Past oppressions are written into our statues, our architecture and our walls. This special issue of Race & Class brings a new perspective to reparatory history. ‘We are, at this moment, witnessing an eruption of active memory’, say Anita Rupprecht and Cathy Bergin. Resistances mobilised around Confederacy statues have provoked mass protests and fierce debate.