An evening with with Winston Trew – activist and author of ‘Black for a cause … not just because … the case of the “Oval 4” and the story of Black Power in 1970s Britain’. Monday 13 February 2017, 6.30pm 3 Jardine House, Harrovian Business Village, Bessborough Road, Harrow London HA1 3EX Related links Book
Theme: Health
One Day Without Us: UK National Protest
One Day Without Us – a national day of action to celebrate the contribution of migrants to the UK, to coincide with UN World Day of Social Justice. Monday 20 February – Tuesday 21 February 2017 Locations across the UK Please check the One Day Without Us website for details for actions across the UK Related
Art, Activism, Race and Social Justice
A discussion with artists and community activists examining the role of art and culture at key moments in the struggle for racial justice in Britain. Thursday 16 February 2017, 6.30-8.30pm Nottingham Contemporary, Weekday Cross, Nottingham NG1 2GB Speakers include: Chair: Jagdish Patel – Nottingham based artist and member of The Monitoring Group Poulomi Desai Suresh
Strikers & Spycops – from Grunwick to now
A discussion on political policing and how we should respond to the Pitchford Inquiry examining police spying. Wednesday 15 February 2017, 7-9pm Malet Suite, Student Central, 2nd Floor, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HY Speakers include: Eveline Lubbers – Undercover Research Group Solomon Hughes – journalist who uncovered secret files on Grunwick Harriet Wistrich – lawyer
An appreciation of Barbara Harlow
Professor Timothy Brennan writes an appreciation of Barbara Harlow. To appreciate Barbara Harlow, who left her mark on our collective intellectual lives in so many ways, one has to take a deep breath and imagine the momentous and painful intellectual rebirth she experienced while teaching in Cairo. It is there, under the white hot pressures
Barbara Harlow 1948 – 2017
A rose for the warrior. We were greatly saddened to hear of the death of Race & Class editorial working committee member Barbara Harlow on 28 January. A much-loved colleague, Barbara, professor of English Literature at the University of Texas, dedicated her life to the progressive causes of our times, in most recent years prioritising
Morton Hall: another death in immigration detention
On 11 January an unnamed 27-year-old Polish man was found dead in Morton Hall immigration removal centre in Lincolnshire, the first death this year and the 29th death in immigration detention since 1989. It was reported by the Unity Centre that the man was found hanged in his room at the centre. He had apparently
Calendar of racism and resistance (13-25 January 2017)
A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. Asylum & migration 11 January: An unnamed 27-year-old Polish man dies in Morton Hall detention centre in Lincolnshire. (Unity Centre Glasgow, 13 January 2017, Guardian, 13 January 2017) 12 January: Somali asylum seekers and riot police clash in
John Berger 1926 – 2017
John Berger, writer, art critic and poet has died. John Berger, anti-imperialist, socialist man and peasant has died. It is perhaps inevitable that the establishment should claim John Berger for their own, as the famous critic who provided the BBC and them with ‘Ways of Seeing’ in 1972 – and that despite his Marxism. It
Calendar of racism and resistance (23 December 2016 – 12 January 2017)
A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. Asylum and migration 22 November: Freedom from Torture publishes a report: Proving Torture, Demanding the impossible: Home Office mistreatment of expert medical evidence. Download the report here (pdf file, 1.6mb) 21 December: Human Rights Watch condemns the Home