A protest organised by Stop G4S outside the annual general meeting of G4S. Thursday 6 June 2013, 1pm Salters’ Hall, 4 Fore Street, London EC2Y 5DE Related links Stop G4S Stop G4S on Twitter Stop G4S on Facebook Facebook event listing Download a flyer here
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Anti-fascism – extreme necessity
An interview with a spokesperson from Antirassisistischer und Antifaschister Ratschlag. European government counter-extremism policies which classify fascism as just another form of contemporary extremism (which also includes Left extremism and in some cases anti-fascism) are being resisted by victim support groups in Germany. In 2012, at a time when the federal government was attempting to
Preserving the rule of law
A day of legal seminars on the erosion of civil liberties. Monday 20 May 2013, 6.30-9.30pm Grays Inn, 8 South Square, London WC1R 5ET Speakers: Sir Geoffrey Bindman QC – ‘Why the Governmen’ts attack on the Human Rights Act must be defeated’ Saghir Hussain – ‘Secret Courts and the Erosion of Due Process’ Toby Cadman
Europe’s pariah state? the future of human rights in Britain
This week, we publish a briefing paper on the future of human rights in Britain, written by the IRR’s vice-chair, Frances Webber. With nativism, racism and fascism on the rise throughout Europe, informing government policies towards migrants and other unpopular minorities as well as popular right-wing, anti-immigrant, anti-Muslim and anti-Roma movements, the European system of
Extradited to a future of torture
The International State Crime Initiative (ISCI) is showing a film, The Worst of the Worst, on the impact of solitary detention. Thursday 16 May 2013, 6-9pm Room S-2.08, Strand Campus, King’s College London, London WC2R 2LS Speakers include: Tessa Murphy (Amnesty International) James Ridgeway and Jean Casella (solitarywatch.com) Hamja Ahsan (brother of Talha Ahsan) Related links To
Cuts, crime and racialisation
In the April 2013 issue of Race & Class leading UK thinkers, in a special section on Cuts, crime and racialisation, examine how neoliberalism, at a time of austerity, changes the very nature of racism and criminal justice. The young unemployed, often excluded from every institution and avenue, are unwanted. The dragnet of Joint Enterprise,
Shadow Lives
A discussion about Victoria Brittain’s new book Shadow Lives: the forgotten women of the war on terror, about the impact on the wives and families of the men imprisoned at Guantánamo Bay. Tuesday 26 February 2013, 7pm London Review Bookshop, 14 Bury Place, London WC1A 2JL Speakers: Victoria Brittain – author of Shadow Lives: the
Stop MI5 blackmail!
A meeting to discuss MI5 practices. Friday 18 January 2013, 7pm Council Chamber, Camden Town Hall, Judd Steet, London WC1H 9JE Speakers: Saghir Hussain – CagePrisoners Sharhabeel Lone – KTCO Mohamed Nur – KTCO Kurdish Federation UK Tom Foot – Journalist George Binette – Camden UNISON Frances Webber – Haldane Society of Socialist Lawyers
Shadow Lives
A lecture based on the forthcoming book by Victoria Brittain, Shadow Lives: the Forgotten Women of the War on Terror. Friday 23 November 2012, 6.30pm The Institute of Psychoanalysis, Byron House, 112A Shirland Road, London W9 2EQ Speaker: Victoria Brittain – journalist and author of Shadow Lives: the Forgotten Women of the War on Terror
One law for non-Muslims
Victoria Brittain on the home secretary’s double standards in the Gary McKinnon case. Only former Labour home secretary Alan Johnson chose to stand aside publicly from the wave of support for the highly popular and welcome decision by Theresa May last week to stop the extradition of Gary McKinnon to the US. It was the