News

When Memory does NOT die

The legacy of A. Sivanandan, who passed away on 3 January, is being widely noted. The funeral will be small and private but a public memorial event will take place later this year. While the date and venue of the memorial has yet to be announced, the launch of Liz Fekete’s new book, Europe’s Fault

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Press Release

Reinforcing neoliberalism?

How, asks the January issue of Race & Class, are the principles of neoliberalism reinforced through the racial dimensions of governance, the criminal justice system and the media? Elizabeth Jones, assistant professor of Pan-African Studies at the University of Louisville, explores the prolific imposition of fines and fees on urban communities in the US for

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The first Stuart Hall public conversation

The first Stuart Hall Public Conversation bringing together writers, performers and artists for an afternoon of stimulating talks, readings and performances. Saturday 3 February 2018, 2pm Conway Hall, 25 Red Lion Square, London WC1R 4RL  Speakers and performers include: Mona Arshi David Edgar Pankaj Mishra Gilane Tawadros Lanre Malaolu Related links Stuart Hall Foundation View full details here

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Is the Era of Universal Human Rights Coming to an End?

Conor Gearty, Professor of Human Rights Law at LSE, will deliver the Corin Redgrave Memorial Lecture 2018. Saturday 27 January 2018, 2-4pm Conway Hall, 25 Red Lion Square, London WC1R 4RL Related links Book a ticket here Download a flyer here (pdf file, 53kb)

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‘Black for a Cause’ – documentary screening

Black for a Cause documents Winston Trew’s forty year fight to clear his name following a miscarriage of justice. The Black Power activist served a two year prison sentence after being falsely convicted of theft, robbery and assault on police officers.  Wednesday 31 January 2018, 6.30-8pm  The Stripe Lecture Room, The University of Winchester, Sparkford

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Press Release

A. Sivanandan 1923 – 2018

A. Sivanandan, the Director Emeritus of the Institute of Race Relations and founding editor of Race & Class has passed away. The Institute of Race Relations would like to thank everyone who has sent tributes and messages of condolences following the death of A. Sivanandan on Wednesday 3 January. As his family and friends mourn

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Letters from the Utopian Margins: a late submission to the Hawthorn Archive

On 15 December, in London, Avery Gordon, Race & Class contributor and Editorial Working Committee Member, launched her book The Hawthorn Archive: letters from the Utopian Margins – in which she collects the traces of ‘radical runaways, deserters, abolitionists, heretics, dreamers and liberationalists’ of all shades and nations. Below we publish the contribution welcoming the

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Review

The road to anti-racism

A unique project tells the tale of how militant anti-racists in the 1970s helped create the multicultural London now taken for granted. 1976-7 was the pivotal year in the annals of British anti-racism. There was the vilification in the press of Asians fleeing Malawi, the murder of Gurdip Singh Chaggar in the heart of Southall,

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News

Calendar of racism and resistance (1-14 December 2017)

A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. Asylum and migration 29 November: Four migrants die in a car crash after their overcrowded car, carrying eight migrants, plunges off a ninety foot cliff during a police chase in Thessaloniki, northern Greece. (APNews, 29 November 2017) 5

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