A special edition of the Queensbury Pub Quiz in aid of the Grunwick 40 Campaign. Wednesday 11 May 2016, 8pm The Queensbury, 110a Walm Lane, Willesden Green, London NW2 4RS Grunwick 40 is fundraising to install a mural to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the Grunwick Strike, a key event in Willesden’s history that had
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The fourth London Radical Bookfair 2016
The London Radical Bookfair is a gathering of progressive readers, thinkers and doers in a celebration of radical publishing and politics. Saturday 7 May 2016, 12-6pm Goldsmiths Great Hall, Goldsmiths, University of London, New Cross London SE14 6NW Related links Facebook event listing London Radical Bookfair
Internationalism and black agency in the African American radical Press (1918-1924)
A talk in the ‘Marxism in Culture’ seminar series. Friday 29 April 2016, 5.30-7.30pm, Wolfson Room, NB01, Institute of Historical Research, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E Speaker: Cathy Bergin – University of Brighton Related links Further details here Marxism in Culture seminar series
Calendar of racism and resistance (8 – 21 April 2016)
A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. Asylum and migration 8 April: A 7-year-old Afghan boy is rescued from the back of a lorry on the M1 with fourteen other migrants after sending an SOS text message saying that he was having difficulty breathing. (BBC
Birmingham community launch of Joint Enterprise report
The Birmingham launch of a new report: ‘Dangerous associations: Joint enterprise, gangs and racism’. Thursday 28 April 2016, 7pm The Drum, 144 Potters Lane, Birmingham B6 4UU Speakers include: Patrick Williams Becky Clarke Related links Event details Centre for Crime and Justice Studies
Migrant Solidarity Network (North) launch
Launch event of of the new Migrant Solidarity Network (North) for groups working for refugee and migrant rights. Saturday 30 April 2016, 11-5pm The Star & Shadow Cinema, Newcastle NE1 2NP Groups include: Beyond Borders Tyneside Manchester Migrant Solidarity South Yorkshire Migration and Asylum Action Group Right to Remain Related links Facebook event listing Beyond Borders Tyneside
Anti-Semitism – thought or deed?
Significantly, but without much fanfare, an expanded definition of anti-Semitism entered the UK’s policy arena this April. An article by Eric Pickles, former secretary of state for communities and local government, chair of the Conservative Friends of Israel and, since September 2015, UK special envoy for post-Holocaust issues, entitled ‘A definition of antisemitism’ introduced the
The deradicalisation of education
Below we reproduce an excerpt from an article in the April 2016 issue of Race & Class, ‘The deradicalisation of education: terror, youth and the assault on learning’. Across the UK, schools of all types and levels now have anti-radicalisation policies in which they pledge to be ‘vigilant’ in ‘safeguarding against radicalisation’ – which, as
Calendar of racism and resistance (25 March – 7 April 2016)
A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. Asylum and migration 8 March: Caritas Europa publishes: Migrants and refugees have rights! Impact of EU policies on accessing protection. Download the report here. 15 March: Refugee Rights publishes a report: The Long Wait: Filling the data gaps
The inversion of accountability
While the government increasingly treats human rights as optional and legal accountability for its actions as undesirable, it demands more and more accountability from citizens in the policing of migrants and ‘extremists’. What does democratic accountability entail? At a minimum, we expect our government to comply with fundamental human rights norms and with the rule