A discussion on political policing and how we should respond to the Pitchford Inquiry examining police spying. Wednesday 15 February 2017, 7-9pm Malet Suite, Student Central, 2nd Floor, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HY Speakers include: Eveline Lubbers – Undercover Research Group Solomon Hughes – journalist who uncovered secret files on Grunwick Harriet Wistrich – lawyer
Theme: Climate
Morton Hall: another death in immigration detention
On 11 January an unnamed 27-year-old Polish man was found dead in Morton Hall immigration removal centre in Lincolnshire, the first death this year and the 29th death in immigration detention since 1989. It was reported by the Unity Centre that the man was found hanged in his room at the centre. He had apparently
Calendar of racism and resistance (13-25 January 2017)
A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. Asylum & migration 11 January: An unnamed 27-year-old Polish man dies in Morton Hall detention centre in Lincolnshire. (Unity Centre Glasgow, 13 January 2017, Guardian, 13 January 2017) 12 January: Somali asylum seekers and riot police clash in
John Berger 1926 – 2017
John Berger, writer, art critic and poet has died. John Berger, anti-imperialist, socialist man and peasant has died. It is perhaps inevitable that the establishment should claim John Berger for their own, as the famous critic who provided the BBC and them with ‘Ways of Seeing’ in 1972 – and that despite his Marxism. It
Calendar of racism and resistance (23 December 2016 – 12 January 2017)
A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. Asylum and migration 22 November: Freedom from Torture publishes a report: Proving Torture, Demanding the impossible: Home Office mistreatment of expert medical evidence. Download the report here (pdf file, 1.6mb) 21 December: Human Rights Watch condemns the Home
Xeno-racism and the scourge of school exclusion
Radical educationalist Chris Searle examines the response to recent exclusions in the Slovak Roma community in Sheffield in a lecture at the School of Education, University of Birmingham in December 2016. The conservative restoration continues apace at every level of the British education system, most markedly in our schools. While cuts and austerity policies force local education authorities to
Blacks Britannica film showing & discussion
African Odysseys at the BFI present a ‘Blacks Britannica’ followed by a discussion. Saturday 28 January 2017, 2pm NFT3 GA, British Film Institute, Belvedere Road, South Bank, London SE1 8XT Speakers include: Colin Prescod – Chair of the Institute of Race Relations Kunle Olulode – Director of Voice4Change Other guests TBA Related links Book tickets here
Calendar of racism and resistance (9-22 December 2016)
A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. Asylum & migration 6 December: The director of Europol promises to ‘look again’ at the circumstances in which 500 refugees drowned in the April 2016 Mediterranean shipwreck after an investigation by Reuters/BBC Newsnight finds that no official body,
Locking down Africa
In the second part of her examination of EU deals with third countries to stop migration, Frances Webber examines the closure of Africa’s borders against migration, demanded by the EU as the price for development, trade and aid. The June-December 2016 progress report on Niger in the context of the Migration Partnership Framework[1] boasted that
Four found guilty of events in Rotherham, South Yorkshire
Below we reproduce a statement made by the Rotherham 12 Defence Campaign following guilty verdicts on 15 December. The convictions of four far-right defendants[1] on 15 December at Sheffield Crown Court for violent disorder is a vindication for everything our campaign has stood for, especially the right of self-defence for a victimised community facing real