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
HISTORY ACTS is a new radical history forum, affiliated to the Raphael Samuel Centre, and based at the University of London. Sessions are free and open to all, with this event taking place in Birmingham. Thursday 6 July 2017, 11-12.30pm Modern British Studies Conference 2017, University of Birmingham, Arts Building, B15 2TT. HISTORY ACTS aims
A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. Violence and harassment 25 May: A 71-year-old man and 69-year-old woman are racially abused in Irvine by a man who asks if they have ‘bombs’. Craig Sharpe, 45, is later charged with acting in a racially aggravated manner.
A statement from Last Rights proposing international legal standards for proper and decent treatment of migrants who die at Europe’s borders, and their families, is a vital campaigning tool. As Europe’s leaders focus on border security and rescuers are criminalised, more migrants die. In the first five months of this year, the death rate among migrants
A conference that interrogates how borders are extended spatially and temporally, from the geo-political borders of the nation-state to the spaces and times of everyday life. It will explore resistances to these processes and include discussions on the policing and proliferation of these internal borders Saturday 17 June 2017, 9.30-5.30 pm Room B01, Clore Management
The IRR invites you to a wide-ranging discussion meeting on the implications of Brexit for border policing in Northern Ireland. Given the new minority Conservative government is reliant on the support of the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), this timely meeting will also address concerns that core tenets of the Good Friday Agreement could be in
A vigil to show support for the family of Leroy Junior Medford who died in police custody, and to raise awareness of police brutality. Saturday 24 June 2017, 2 pm onwards Outside M&S, Broad Street, opposite the Oracle Entrance, Reading RG1 2BH Related links Facebook page Go Fund Me page
A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. Post-Manchester 22 May: Following a suicide-bomb attack at the Ariana Grande concert in the Manchester arena, which left 22 people dead, many young people, and hundreds injured, Greater Manchester mayor Andy Burnham tells BBC News that Mancunians will not
Below we publish an excerpt of a commentary in the April 2017 issue of Race & Class, in which Colin Prescod (IRR Chair) examines the challenges of black heritage facing archivists today. This is an edited version of a keynote speech to the annual conference of the Archives and Records Association 2016 in which a leading
