A special edition of the Queensbury Pub Quiz in aid of the Grunwick 40 Campaign. Wednesday 11 May 2016, 8pm The Queensbury, 110a Walm Lane, Willesden Green, London NW2 4RS Grunwick 40 is fundraising to install a mural to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the Grunwick Strike, a key event in Willesden’s history that had
Theme: Extreme-Right politics
The fourth London Radical Bookfair 2016
The London Radical Bookfair is a gathering of progressive readers, thinkers and doers in a celebration of radical publishing and politics. Saturday 7 May 2016, 12-6pm Goldsmiths Great Hall, Goldsmiths, University of London, New Cross London SE14 6NW Related links Facebook event listing London Radical Bookfair
Calendar of racism and resistance (8 – 21 April 2016)
A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. Asylum and migration 8 April: A 7-year-old Afghan boy is rescued from the back of a lorry on the M1 with fourteen other migrants after sending an SOS text message saying that he was having difficulty breathing. (BBC
Calendar of racism and resistance (25 March – 7 April 2016)
A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. Asylum and migration 8 March: Caritas Europa publishes: Migrants and refugees have rights! Impact of EU policies on accessing protection. Download the report here. 15 March: Refugee Rights publishes a report: The Long Wait: Filling the data gaps
The inversion of accountability
While the government increasingly treats human rights as optional and legal accountability for its actions as undesirable, it demands more and more accountability from citizens in the policing of migrants and ‘extremists’. What does democratic accountability entail? At a minimum, we expect our government to comply with fundamental human rights norms and with the rule
Discrimination law update
A discrimination law update organised by the Forum for Research into Equality and Diversity in collaboration with the University of Northampton. Monday 11 April 2016, 6-8pm Aston University, Aston Triangle, Birmingham B4 7ET Speakers include: Robin Allen QC – Head of Cloisters barristers’ Professor Muriel Robison – University of Edinburgh Related links See further details here
In conversation with Ron Ramdin, historian, biographer, and author
To celebrate the 30th anniversary of ‘The Making of The Black Working Class in Britain’ by Ron Ramdin the TUC Race Relations Committee has organised this event featuring Ron Ramdin in conversation with Roger McKenzie, Assistant General Secretary of UNISON. Saturday 16 April 2016, 6-8pm Trade Union Congress, 23-28 Great Russell Street, London WC1B 3LS Conversation followed by
Grunwick – 40 years on
The TUC Race Relations Committee in association with the SERTUC Film Club presents a screening of ‘The Great Grunwick Strike 1976-1978: A History’, followed by a panel discussion on the lessons that can be learnt from the dispute. Friday 15 April 2016, 7-10pm Trade Union Congress, 23-28 Great Russell Street, London WC1B 3LS Speakers include: Kamaljeet Jandu –
Calendar of racism and resistance (11 – 24 March 2016)
A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. Asylum and migration 3 March: Home Secretary Theresa May wins the right to deport refused asylum seekers to Afghanistan after the Court of Appeal overturns an injunction imposed following concerns that the country was too dangerous. (Bureau of Investigative Journalism,
Germany: neo-Nazis and the market in asylum reception
The German government’s use of the largely unregulated private security sector in the reception and care of asylum seekers has led to neo-Nazis having unrestricted access to the very people they want to harm. Rene S. was an active member of the neo-Nazi organisation ‘Sturm 18’, with a criminal record, yet in 2015, he was