A resurgent media fixation with the 1980s Bradford headmaster Ray Honeyford has created a space for New Right ideas about cultural deficit within BME communities to resurface. ‘Whatever you thought of him, he was certainly ahead of his time.’ That, in sum, is what it took Aasmah Mir twenty-eight minutes to say in her recent
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Charities criticise Daily Express hostility toward asylum seekers
We reproduce here a response that the Daily Express refused to publish after it had carried a series of articles attacking asylum seekers in Britain. Dear Sir, The stream of aggressive stories about asylum seekers appearing in this paper in recent days is of serious concern to all of us who work with and support people fleeing persecution. Your
Calendar of Racism and Resistance (5 – 18 September 2014)
A resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key news stories in the UK and Europe over the past fortnight. Asylum seekers & refugees 5 September: Migrants and activists rally in Calais for human rights and an end to police violence, as Sauvons Calais announce they will rally on 7 September to ‘say no to
Po Po and Burn
A film showing of two films (by Ken Fero/Migrant Media) on family campaigns following deaths in police custody. Friday 26 September 2014, 7.30-10pm Portobello Pop Up Cinema, 3 Acklam Road, London W10 5TY The two films are: Po Po on the death of Jason McPherson and Burn on the death of Mark Duggan, followed by
Valerie Allport 1945-2014
A tribute to an IRR supporter. The Institute of Race Relations has lost one of its best friends. Val Allport was not just a supporter, she was a friend – there at every turn. Funnily enough I don’t know that much about her, just that she was there – for some forty-five years. Her first
When class becomes a commodity
A new Open Society Foundations research project on Europe’s white working class provides a welcome corrective to those who champion the class as a victim of immigration while colluding in the abandonment of working-class areas. In his classic text examining production processes Labor and Monopoly Capital, published in 1974, Harry Braverman showed how ‘poverty and
Calendar of racism & resistance (27 August – 4 September 2014)
A calendar of stories from the last week. Asylum seekers & refugees 27 August 2014: Medical Justice has published a report: Biased and Unjust: The Immigration Detention Complaints Process, you can download it here (pdf file, 6.4mb). 29 August: 44-year-old Wadih Chourey, who has Down’s syndrome, faces deportation to Lebanon after the Home Office refused
The state, the market and the voluntary youth sector
A seminar to examine the ‘radical shifts’ in the voluntary youth sector’s changing relationship with the state and the increasing intrusion of private businesses into its activities. Thursday 18 September 2014, 11-4pm Brunswick Parish Church Centre, Brunswick Street, Manchester M13 9TQ Outline programme includes: Ian McGimpsey (University of Birmingham) – effects of neo-liberal policies on
International day of solidarity: one year without Pavlos Fyssas
London anti-fascists support the international call-out from Greece to commemorate one year since the murder of Pavlos Fyssas (aka Killah P) at the hands of fascists. Thursday 18 September 2014, 7pm Cable Street Mural, 236 Cable Street, London E1 0BL Related links Facebook event listing
Sweden’s counter-extremism policies fail the accountability test
The Swedish model of countering far-right extremism is deeply flawed and should not be followed by other EU countries. The European Commission has recommended that EU member states set up special programmes for those at risk of radicalisation and the Swedish Ministry of Justice is already working to export its model of countering far-right extremism