A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. Anti-fascism and the far Right 10 October: The army launches an investigation after Tommy Robinson posts a photograph and video footage of himself at Watford Gap motorway services surrounded by young uniformed squaddies who chant his name. (Express,
Aisha Maniar discusses Stephen Shaw’s follow-up report on the detention of vulnerable people from the perspective of interpreting facilities for detainees. The United Kingdom has one of the largest immigration detention estates in Europe. While detention is punitive in nature, the measure itself is administrative and not criminal. In 2017, for the non-offence of not holding a British passport, 27,331
Eliane Edmond-Pettitt describes how the situation in Calais has changed for volunteers on the ground since the Jungle came down in 2016. In October 2016 bulldozers entered the Calais ‘Jungle’, a shanty town built on an asbestos field on the edge of Calais near the port. The event gained a lot of media attention and
An awareness-raising event in solidarity with Humanitarian activists Seán Binder, Sarah Mardini and Nasso Karakitsos who have been detained, while doing voluntary work, saving lives in Lesvos, Greece. Saturday 20 October, 1pm – 4pm London King’s Cross Station, N1C 4TB, London – exact location to be confirmed. This event will link up with demonstrations in
A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. Asylum and migration 25 September: A court in Boulogne finds 21-year-old Loan Torondel, a worker for L’Auberge des Migrants, guilty of criminal libel for an ironic tweet about police harassment of migrants, a conviction described by Human Rights
The October 2018 issue of Race & Class brings together pieces on racialising domestic violence, #Grime4Corybyn, the rebranding of C.L.R. James for a neoliberal era and memorial tributes to A. Sivanandan. Jessica Perera, who is currently assisting research at the Institute of Race Relations, explores how Grime artists in the 2017 UK general election came
A two-day conference discussing the pervasive nature of racism, injustice and austerity in contemporary Britain and their impact on working class communities. Saturday 13 October 2018, 9:45am – 5:15pm Sunday 14 October 2018, 9:45am – 4:45pm Speakers include: Professor Gus John (Award winning writer, campaigner and consultant) Liz Fekete (Director, Institute of Race Relations) Stafford Scott (The Monitoring Group): The Government’s
A conference to mark the twentieth anniversary of the United Families & Friends Campaign. Friday 26 October 2018, 9am-9pm The Light, Friends House, Euston Road, London NW1 Speakers include: Janet Alder – sister of Christopher Alder who died in Hull Police Station in 1998 and who has since campaigned for justice Sherene Razack – Distinguished Professor and the Penney
A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. Asylum and migration 6 September: The Spanish Congress of Deputies reinstalls access to healthcare for undocumented migrants, regardless of status. (ECRE, 14 September 2018) 12 September: Despite the efforts of British Conservative MEPs, the European parliament votes to
How labels serve to justify and normalise the worst of the EU’s migration practices. The expansive catalogue of terminologies – refugees, displaced, migrants, asylum seekers, expelled, stateless, repatriated, returned, illegal, unauthorised, undocumented, irregular – has not, according to Tazreena Sajjad at the Global Governance, Politics and Security Program at the American University in Washington, DC,
