The January 2017 issue of Race & Class leads with a very timely article on Europe by IRR director Liz Fekete. She looks, in the light of the Brexit vote, at the apparent rupture between Eurosceptic nationalists and transnational neoliberal elites, examining also the decline in support for Social Democratic and Conservative mainstream political parties.
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Radical educationalist Chris Searle examines the response to recent exclusions in the Slovak Roma community in Sheffield in a lecture at the School of Education, University of Birmingham in December 2016. The conservative restoration continues apace at every level of the British education system, most markedly in our schools. While cuts and austerity policies force local education authorities to
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African Odysseys at the BFI present a ‘Blacks Britannica’ followed by a discussion. Saturday 28 January 2017, 2pm NFT3 GA, British Film Institute, Belvedere Road, South Bank, London SE1 8XT Speakers include: Colin Prescod – Chair of the Institute of Race Relations Kunle Olulode – Director of Voice4Change Other guests TBA Related links Book tickets here
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A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. Asylum & migration 6 December: The director of Europol promises to ‘look again’ at the circumstances in which 500 refugees drowned in the April 2016 Mediterranean shipwreck after an investigation by Reuters/BBC Newsnight finds that no official body,
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In the second part of her examination of EU deals with third countries to stop migration, Frances Webber examines the closure of Africa’s borders against migration, demanded by the EU as the price for development, trade and aid. The June-December 2016 progress report on Niger in the context of the Migration Partnership Framework[1] boasted that
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Below we reproduce a statement made by the Rotherham 12 Defence Campaign following guilty verdicts on 15 December. The convictions of four far-right defendants[1] on 15 December at Sheffield Crown Court for violent disorder is a vindication for everything our campaign has stood for, especially the right of self-defence for a victimised community facing real
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First public event for the Against Borders for Children campaign. Saturday 14 January 2017, 12.30-5pm SOAS, University of London, Thornhaugh Street, London WC1H 0XG Panel discussions and workshops on: The ABC campaign in context: a ‘hostile environment’ for migrants and disappearing data privacy rights What we stand for: imagining conversations about migration in the classroom Where
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Are you passionate about racial justice? Do you have good organisational and administrative skills? Would you relish the opportunity of working in a small team to help develop one of the UK’s leading educational charities creating and disseminating analyses and information? If so, we might have just the job for you. The IRR is looking
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Anger is building at the return of refugees from Europe to war zones and the EU’s deals with dictators and torturers to prevent refugees from leaving their own countries. In the first of two articles, Frances Webber looks at the EU’s deals with Afghanistan and Turkey. The second article will examine the deals with African
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A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. Asylum and migration 21 November: The malnourished body of an 18-year-old Afghan refugee who froze to death is found in an abandoned industrial building in northern Bulgaria near the Serbian border, the tenth known death of a refugee
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