On 7 September, an unnamed Polish man died in hospital after self-harming at Harmondsworth detention centre. Twelve days later a Chinese man was found dead at Dungavel in Scotland. Two deaths in twelve days making a total of four deaths already this year. The first man was found at the Mitie-run[1] centre in west London
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A resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. Asylum and migration 30 June: A report on the situation of unaccompanied refugee children in Greece and ways to improve it, by the International Rescue Committee and METAdrasi, is published. Read the report here. (Are You Syrious, 19 July 2017)
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A vital resource for those interested in the history of anti-racist campaigning has now been made available on the IRR’s website. Seventy-two issues of the magazine CARF published between 1991 and 2003 are now available to download free of charge here. CARF reflected and spoke to the activist movements in the UK over that time,
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The Grenfell Tower inferno throws up all the contradictions between community self-help and resistance and an uncaring state. Fire this time These walls bear witness. ‘Justice’, ‘pity the poor’, ‘fuck the local authority’s Tenants Management Organisation’s, gentrification serving, class-cleansing deception’, they shout. And poignantly, still faintly echoing down the years, from half a century ago,
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Are you the person we need to develop Race & Class? We are looking for a dynamic and motivated person with experience of print and online publishing to assist the editors of this quarterly journal − with a worldwide reputation for incisive but radical coverage of state racisms, imperialism, globalisation, the war on terror, black history
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A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. Asylum & migration 26 June: The Independent Monitoring Board (IMB) for Yarl’s Wood Immigration Removal Centre (IRC) publishes its Annual Report, which finds the centre still needs improvement. Download it here. (Bedford Today, 28 June 2017) 28 June:
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Although the recent conviction of aristocrat 4th Viscount St Davids for ‘menacing’ online hate crimes against Gina Miller rightly received widespread national publicity, many other similar crimes slip by quietly if local media outlets do not publish the details. Magistrates courts, where the vast majority of hate crimes are prosecuted do not publish individual trial
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A benefit gig for SOAS Detainee Support Group. Saturday 15 July 2017, 9pm-3am 125 Caledonian Road, Islington, London N1 9RG Featuring: Stand up comedy Sound system Food and drinks Related links SOAS Detainee Support Group SOAS Detainee Support Group on Twitter SOAS Detainee Support Group on Facebook
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The July 2017 issue of Race & Class is now available and you can download the lead article for free (for a limited time only). The July 2017 issue of Race & Class leads with a double-length narrative history of the little known New York City jail riots of the 1970s which predated that at
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A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. Asylum & migration June: The Public Interest Law Unit at Lambeth Law Centre, along with NELMA, launch a crowd-funding appeal to bring a judicial review against Home Office policy of removing rough-sleeping EEA Nationals. View the appeal here.
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