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,
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
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:
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
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.
Go Home? The politics of Immigration Controversies brings together voices against and surrounding the government’s tougher stance on immigration. We hear from community organisations, policy makers, migrants and citizens along with eight social researchers. As indicated by the title, this publication is in direct response to Operation Vaken in 2013, most associated with the Go
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.
Radical booksellers and publishers, comix and zine makers, artists and activists, small press, exhibitions, workshops and talks. Saturday 24 June 2017, 12-6 pm Great Hall, Goldsmiths, University of London, New Cross, London SE14 6NW related links Event 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
