A day of education, information and discussion leading to action through encouragement of grassroots campaigns. Saturday 9 April 2016, 10.30-5.30pm Quaker Meeting House, 10 James Street, Sheffield S1 2EW Related links See event on Facebook here
Theme: Extreme-Right politics
Pit Props
A new radical, illustrated anthology highlights the links between music, politics and protest during the miners’ strike. Mention the miners’ strike of 1984-5 and most people will remember Thatcher and Arthur Scargill. What they may not say is ‘community’. And yet the most important aspect in terms of British history was the strength of community
Black history and black struggle: the past in the present
Below we reproduce a speech at the eleventh annual Huntley Conference on the IRR’s Black History Collection and the importance of archives in signposting the past and future. Today I want to talk to you about an item from the Black History Collection, which is held at the Institute of Race Relations. But before I get
Calendar of racism and resistance (26 February – 10 March 2016)
A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. Asylum 25 February: Home Office statistics reveal that the number of unaccompanied asylum seeking children has increased by over 50 per cent in the last year, with 3,043 children seeking asylum in 2015, compared with 1,945 in 2014.
Sites of Confinement: Confines, Control and Resistance at the Border
A day conference focused on the sites of confinement regarding migration, race, racism and physical, social and spatial bordering control. Thursday 17 March 2016, 9-6pm Campus Luigi Einaudi, University of Turin, Lungo Dora Siena 100/A-10154, Turin, Italy Speakers include: Antigone Association Monish Bhatia Victoria Canning Valeria Ferraris Evgenia Iliadou Simone Santorso Alvise Sbraccia No Borders
Grunwick 40 mural: community workshops at Dudden Hill Centre
Workshops run by an experienced mural artist to help the Grunwick 40 Committee design a mural to remember the forty years since the 1976 strike. Wednesday 13 April 2016, Wednesday 20 April 2016 and Wednesday 27 April 2016, 4.30pm Dudden Hill Community Centre, 19 Dudden Hill Lane London NW10 2ED Everyone aged 13 and above is
Grunwick 40 mural: community workshops at Willesden Library
A workshop run by an experienced mural artist to help the Grunwick 40 Committee design a mural to remember the forty years since the 1976 strike. Sunday 3 April 2016 and Saturday 9 April 2016, 10.30am-3.30pm Willesden Green Library, 95 High Road London NW10 2SF Everyone aged 13 and above is welcome. You don’t need
Lubomir Zubak, 1957 – 2015
Paul Polansky, author and Romani rights activist, remembers Lubomir Zubak who died on 23 December 2015. Lubomir Zubak, noted Romani rights activist in the Czech Republic in the 1990s, was the first to publicly call for the removal of the pig farm built over the WWII Roma concentration camp at Lety. His one-man demonstration carrying
Entitlement and belonging: social restructuring and multicultural Britain
An IRR discussion paper on the Housing and Planning and Immigration Bills 2015-16. The Housing and Planning and Immigration Bills, currently going through parliament, contain measures which are central to the Conservatives’ stated belief in cohesive ‘One Nation’ government. In a discussion paper published by the IRR today, criminologist Dr Jon Burnett argues that the
Grunwick women who broke the mould
Today, on International Women’s Day, it is women like Jayaben Desai,[1] Kalben Patel and their fellow strikers that we should be remembering and honouring for their tenacity and courage. 23 August 2016 marks forty years since the start of the Grunwick strike. This dispute at the Film Processing Laboratory in Willesden, north-west London lasted for