The shameful treatment of elderly Commonwealth citizens treated as illegal immigrants was brought to public attention by the Guardian’s report in March on the refusal of NHS cancer treatment to 63-year-old Londoner Albert Thompson. On 28 March, Frances Webber and Jessica Perera of IRR News went to visit Bethan Lant of Praxis, the organisation helping him,
Below we reproduce a talk given by the IRR’s Director, Liz Fekete, for the Parliament Roundtable on Racism & Hate Crime organised by the Monitoring Group on Monday 16 April 2018. I welcome this meeting which brings together so many campaigners dedicated to combating the violent racism that kills. After so many years of struggle, we now
Keynote presentation by Stafford Scott, a veteran activist and community elder and the co-ordinator of Tottenham Rights. Friday 20 April 2018, 7-9pm North London Community House, Moorefield Road, Tottenham, London N17 6PY Related links Tottenham Rights The Monitoring Group Download a flyer here
A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. Asylum and migration 22 March: The captain and head of mission of Proactiva Open Arms, an NGO rescue ship working in the Mediterranean, are arrested in Sicily for refusing to hand over the 218 people they saved in
What, asks the April issue of Race & Class, has happened in policy and academia to the concept of ‘radicalisation’ that Arun Kundnani analysed in a pathbreaking piece, ‘Radicalisation: the journey of a concept’, some six years ago? In a far-reaching survey of published articles and commissioned government research over the last years, covering the
22 April marks the 25th anniversary of the racist murder of Stephen Lawrence in 1993. This parliamentary forum aims chart a remarkable journey over this period – from the senseless and brutal murder to the BREXT state. Monday 16 April 2018, 2-5pm Committee Room 10, House of Commons, Westminster, London SW1A 0AA Contributors include: Imran Khan QC
A vigil for justice. Wednesday 18 April 2018, 7-8pm outside the Ministry of Justice (near St James tube), 102 Petty France, London SW1H 9AJ Related links Justice Alliance Justice Alliance on Twitter Speak up for Justice
A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. Asylum and migration 6 March: Jess Phillips MP reveals that a constituent was detained in Yarl’s Wood after reporting her violent husband who had threatened to kill her to the police. The woman was later released and given
A demonstration to show solidarity with hunger strikers at Yarl’s Wood. Saturday 24 March 2018 Yarl’s Wood Immigration Removal Centre, Twinwoods Business Park, Thurleigh Road, Milton Ernest, Bedford MK44 2FQ Bring banners, placards, drums, whistles and wrap up warm. Related links South Yorkshire Migration and Asylum Action Group (SYMAAG) Sisters Uncut
A launch event for ‘Whitechapel Boy: a reading of the poetry of Isaac Rosenberg’, to commemorate the centenary of the death of the English artist and poet, Isaac Rosenberg in the WW1 battlefield shortly before the end of WW1. Thursday 5 April 2018, 6.30pm Tower Hamlets Local History Library & Archives, 227 Bancroft Road, Mile End, London E1
