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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Room to Heal Summer Party

Join Room to Heal for an evening of storytelling, art work and music to celebrate their summer party. Friday 6th July 2018, 6pm – late Mildmay Community Centre, London, N16 8NA RSVP: anna@roomtoheal.org Tickets: suggested donation £7 (unwaged) £10 (waged) £15 (solidarity!) Related Links Link to Room to Heal website here

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News

Calendar of racism and resistance (8 – 21 June 2018)

A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. Asylum and migration 3 June: Scottish refugee charities raise concerns about the number of asylum seekers forced into ‘state-sponsored homelessness’ after being released from Dungavel detention centre with nowhere to go. (Herald, 3 June 2018) 5 June: Serco

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Review

Connecting the past and the present in Liverpool

List of soldiers names from the Great War to Race Riots archive

Danny Reilly reviews an important new book detailing the migrant history of Liverpool.  Based on the work of the Great War to Race Riots Archive presented to Liverpool-based organisation Writing on the Wall, this book/project centres around the ‘race riots’ in Liverpool in 1919, but tells a much wider and inter-connected story. As its bibliography

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Beyond Windrush: building the movement for migrants’ rights

Join activists, grassroots groups and migrant campaigners to learn more about what’s wrong with our immigration system and explore practical ways of taking action. Thursday 28 June 2018, 6-9pm Malet Suite, Student Central, Malet Street, Bloomsbury, London WC1E 7HY Participants include: Docs Not Cops Migrants Organise Schools Against Borders for Children Let Us Learn Liberty

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News

Calendar of racism and resistance (17 May – 7 June 2018)

A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. Asylum and migration 15 May: Canada grants political asylum to Viktória Mohácsi, a former Hungarian MEP and Roma rights activist. After exposing police incompetence in the Roma serial killers case, Mohácsi received constant threats and sought police protection.

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Review

The spiralling dynamic of fear – and how to fight it

Frances Webber reviews Corporate Watch’s new report: ‘Who is immigration policy for? The media-politics of the hostile environment’. The central thesis of this closely argued and compelling report, Who is immigration policy for? The media-politics of the hostile environment, is that the purpose of tough immigration policies is not to control immigration – ‘deterrent’ policies don’t

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