Although the recent conviction of aristocrat 4th Viscount St Davids for ‘menacing’ online hate crimes against Gina Miller rightly received widespread national publicity, many other similar crimes slip by quietly if local media outlets do not publish the details. Magistrates courts, where the vast majority of hate crimes are prosecuted do not publish individual trial
A benefit gig for SOAS Detainee Support Group. Saturday 15 July 2017, 9pm-3am 125 Caledonian Road, Islington, London N1 9RG Featuring: Stand up comedy Sound system Food and drinks Related links SOAS Detainee Support Group SOAS Detainee Support Group on Twitter SOAS Detainee Support Group on Facebook
Read new and re-released material from Race & Class on black prison resistance, the role of the Black Panthers, and the influence of US rebellions on the struggle in the UK. As the USA witnesses a resurgence of ‘law and order’ rhetoric, Toussaint Losier, assistant professor of Afro-American Studies at the University of Massachusetts at
The July 2017 issue of Race & Class is now available and you can download the lead article for free (for a limited time only). The July 2017 issue of Race & Class leads with a double-length narrative history of the little known New York City jail riots of the 1970s which predated that at
It is with great sadness that we report the sudden death of radical filmmaker Prasanna Ratnayake. Prasanna, from Sri Lanka, had worked in the UK since 2006 (as and when the Home Office’s rigid rules allowed), until he was finally able to settle here in 2014 with his wife Margaret Henry. Prasanna had been the
A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. Asylum & migration June: The Public Interest Law Unit at Lambeth Law Centre, along with NELMA, launch a crowd-funding appeal to bring a judicial review against Home Office policy of removing rough-sleeping EEA Nationals. View the appeal here.
Go Home? The politics of Immigration Controversies brings together voices against and surrounding the government’s tougher stance on immigration. We hear from community organisations, policy makers, migrants and citizens along with eight social researchers. As indicated by the title, this publication is in direct response to Operation Vaken in 2013, most associated with the Go
The government’s widely-condemned post-Brexit proposals for EU citizens should be used to highlight the unfair and discriminatory immigration laws to which they will be subjected, particularly those limiting family reunification, which currently apply to British citizens and settled migrants. Brexit secretary David Davis said the aim was to ensure EU citizens resident in the UK
A year on from Brexit and in the wake of Finsbury Park: How do we tackle hate crime and bigotry? Thursday 29 June 2017, registration: 6.45pm, event: 7-8.30pm Room 308, University of the Arts London, 272 High Holborn, London WC1V 7EY A year has passed since the UK voted to leave the European Union, and
Kent Refugee Help 10th anniversary AGM, plus launch of ‘I Live Here’ – a mixed art exhibition. Private view: Saturday 15 July, 3-6 pm Conquest House Gallery, Palace Street, Canterbury CT1 2DZ Paintings, prints and drawings by Kate Adams, Chris Bird and Henry Cockburn. Audio-visuals by Syrian artists living in Lebanon, Shahd Kheto, Mohammed Shurbaji, Hassan
