Review

Windrush: Songs in a strange land

A review on a powerful exhibition at the British Library on the relationship between Britain and the Caribbean post-Windrush, which refuses to take the usual UK-centric approach. The recent ‘Windrush scandal’ has woken the nation to the institutional cruelty at the heart of the Home Office’s ‘hostile environment policies’. Now, a brilliant free exhibition running

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Discussing the UNITED List

A discussion on the list of deaths collated by UNITED for Intercultural Action which was published by the Guardian on World Refugee Day in June.  Monday 23 July 2018, 7-9pm Chisenhale Gallery, 64 Chisenhale Road, London E3 5QZ Speakers:  Liz Fekete – IRR Mark Rice-Oxley – Guardian Banu Cennetoğlu – artist Related links UNITED for Intercultural

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Comment

Islamophobia in Denmark: from parallel societies to the ‘ghetto list’

Anti-Muslim discrimination is now central to Danish immigration and integration policies.  It is ludicrous, not to mention unscientific to suggest that there are ghettos in Denmark, but fear of ridicule does not stop the Danish Ministry of Transport, Building and Housing producing a ‘ghetto list’ (ghettolisten). First published in 2010, and updated each year, the

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Comment

Denmark’s ‘ghetto list’ must be scrapped

Anti-racist activist John Graversgaard, from Aarhus, sets out campaigners’ objections to Denmark’s forced integration strategy.  The recently released ‘ghetto list’ must be scrapped. It is through language that we express our understanding of reality, and it is scary what politicians are saying. Using the concept of the ‘ghetto’, and linking it to the ‘parallel society’

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News

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

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Justice Denied – The Life and Times of Joy Gardner

A screening of the Migrant Media film ‘Justice Denied’ on the 25th anniversary of the death of Joy Gardener. • Saturday 28 July 2018, 2-5pm • West Indian Cultural Centre, 9 Clarendon Road, London N8 0DD Related Links Buy tickets on Eventbrite here Migrant Media

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Comment

Who we are is what we do

Jenny Bourne, IRR veteran, writes on what the memorial event for A. Sivanandan held on 23 June at Conway Hall, meant for her.    Early in 1972, the whole staff of the Institute of Race Relations invaded a specially-convened meeting of its Council of Management in a Jermyn Street boardroom to tell these usually ‘absentee landlords’

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News

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

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Press Release

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.

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