A documentary following the two year strike at the Grunwick processing plant in the 1970s, led predominantly by the Asian women who worked there. Friday 1 February 2013, 7.30pm The Old Fire Station, 84 Mayton Street, London N7 6QT
Theme: Extreme-Right politics
The 1949 Causeway Green ‘riots’ reassessed
Kevin Searle’s ‘“Mixing of the unmixables”: the 1949 Causeway Green “riots” in Birmingham’ examines a hitherto unknown landmark in British race relations which throws into question standard accounts of postwar immigration. Most popular accounts begin with the arrival of Jamaican immigrants on the Empire Windrush, and place the 1958 disturbances in Notting Hill and Nottingham
Miliband’s progress?
A. Sivanandan, known for his trenchant critiques of government ‘race’ policies, has broadly welcomed what Ed Miliband had to say last week. IRR News asks him why. What’s new about the Miliband speech? It seems to carry many of the same old themes – need to curtail immigration, need to integrate and so on. It
Dismantling racial justice
The coalition’s proposals to restrict judicial review and to abolish measures which safeguard race equality amount to a further assault on migrants, asylum seekers and BME communities, in the guise of promoting economic growth. Prime minister David Cameron used the unlikely setting of a speech to the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) conference on 19
St Andrew’s day march
The annual St Andrew’s day anti-racism march and rally. Saturday 24 November 2012, 10.30am Assemble at Glasgow Green, Glasgow G40 1BA and march to the rally at Glasgow Film Theatre, Rose Street, Glasgow G3 6RB Speakers include: Representatives from the Coalition for Racial Equality and Rights Representatives from the Glasgow Campaign to Welcome Refugees Shamin
When the going gets tough
The Irish Traveller Movement in Britain’s annual conference. Thursday 15 November 2012, 9am – 4.30pm The London Resource Centre, 356 Holloway Road, London N7 6PA Speakers include: Lord Avebury – Secretary of the All Party Parliamentary Group for Gypsies, Roma and Travellers Professor Steve Field – Chair of the National Inclusion Health Board (TBC) Helen
Stop G4S Convergence
Next weekend Sheffield will witness a Convergence of activists campaigning against the many faces of G4S. The Convergence has been called by organisations campaigning against the activities of G4S and aims to plan how to build a more effective Stop G4S campaign. Supported and endorsed by the Boycott Israel Network, Corporate Watch, Dundee Trades Council,
The new geographies of racism: Peterborough
Research published today by the Institute of Race Relations shows that recently arrived migrant workers are vulnerable to exploitation and xenophobic attacks. The new geographies of racism: Peterborough, focuses on a city which has experienced significant population change over the last decade, largely as a result of the expansion of the European Union and the
We won’t stop racist exploitation of undocumented, says court
The rejection of race discrimination claims brought by a young Nigerian woman who was brought in illegally by her employers, brutalised and denied wages, gives a green light to racism. MH was probably only 14 when her employer brought her from Nigeria to work in the UK as an au pair, promising to send her
Incendiary black working-class heroes
A book on black British strugglers opens up new vistas. The other week I wandered down to Paradise Square, a vestige of Victorian Sheffield where the Chartists held their tempestuous meetings over a century and a half ago. There, on those cobbles, the black revolutionary William Cuffay, his parents from St. Kitts but he himself