A London conference bringing together activists from across Europe and beyond to discuss and organise against the rise of the far Right. Saturday 2 March, 9:30am – 5pm Bloomsbury Central, 235 Shaftesbury Avenue, London, WC2H 8EP Speakers include Diane Abbott MP, Liz Fekete, and more. Related links Register for tickets here More information on No Pasaran
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Criminalising Dissent: the Stansted 15 and the Hostile Environment
A lecture examining political resistance to the UK’s ‘deport now, appeal later policy’, the value of direct action and what the judgement on the Stansted 15 means for the future of political dissent. Wednesday 20 February, 6pm – 8pm Room 313, School of Law, Queen Mary, University of London, Mile End, London, E1 4NS The event,
Calendar of racism and resistance (23 January – 6 February 2019)
A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. ASYLUM, MIGRATION AND CITIZENSHIP Asylum and migrant rights 23 January: After two years of unlawfully refusing his safe passage from the Calais Jungle, the Home Office finalises arrangements for an Eritrean child refugee to join his aunt in
Calendar of racism & resistance (9 – 22 January 2019)
A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. ASYLUM, MIGRATION AND CITIZENSHIP Asylum and migrant rights 17 January: The High Court gives permission for a legal challenge to the immigration exemption from the Data Protection Act which prevents migrants seeing Home Office files on them. (Guardian,
Entrenching hierarchies: the new immigration white paper
The white paper’s differential treatment of ‘low risk’ and ‘high risk’ nationalities, ‘high skilled’ and ‘low skilled’ people, will create new hierarchies of race and class – and intolerable hardship. The white paper setting out the government’s post-Brexit immigration policy, The UK’s future skills-based immigration system, seeks to justify the removal of free movement rights
World without borders: teach in
A day of workshops on understanding the context of the UK border regime with practical sessions on how to build a world without borders. Including sessions on: An interactive play based on the experiences of women from All African Women’s Group Subvertising A teach-in beginning a process of curating The People’s Trial of The Home
Telling the Mayflower story
A pamphlet published in the run-up to the 400th anniversary of the Mayflower voyage to North America offers a welcome alternative perspective. In early 1982, I went to a packed-out evening meeting in a parish hall in St. George’s, Grenada where I was living and teaching. The main speaker was the militant campaigner of the
Humanising the narratives of migration post-brexit
A one-day seminar for anyone concerned about the racist narratives that have emerged around migrants in UK since the EU Referendum. Saturday 16 February, 10 – 4.30pm London venue – exact location to be confirmed Organised by the Ella Baker School of Transformative Organising, the seminar will bring together migrant support groups, anti-racist campaigners, trade unionists, academics
Calendar of racism and resistance (21 December 2018 – 8 January 2019)
A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. ASYLUM, MIGRATION AND CITIZENSHIP Asylum and migrant rights 20 December: Amnesty International (Netherlands) apologises for producing a magazine cover featuring an image of a woman reclining on lifejackets, admitting that the image ‘trivialised the suffering and trauma refugees
Barbara Harlow – insistently against the stream
This week, the IRR publishes a memorial issue of Race & Class celebrating the lifework of the late Barbara Harlow, Solidarity here and everywhere. Barbara Harlow, a Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Texas at Austin described as ‘a critic of both the world and the text’, profoundly shaped the fields