News

Calendar of racism and resistance (27 November – 12 December 2019)

A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. ASYLUM, MIGRATION, CITIZENSHIP Asylum and migrant rights 28 November: The Paris Administrative Court orders the agency in charge of immigration and integration (Ofii) to resume negotiations to make phone calls to immigration services are free of charge. The

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Comment

Rats in the kitchen, sodden carpets in the living room

When researcher John Grayson visited a family with disabilities living in a Mears asylum house in Rotherham, he was stunned by what he saw. ‘That’s where the rats get in.’ April [all names have been changed] was showing me round the kitchen in her Rotherham asylum house. I was visiting her with a volunteer interpreter

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News

Calendar of racism and resistance (13 – 27 November 2019)

A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. ASYLUM AND MIGRATION Asylum and migrant rights 20 November: Doctors, nurses, and healthcare unions call on the prime minister to scrap the ‘health surcharge’ for non-EU NHS staff accessing NHS treatment after he proposes to increase the amount

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Interview

‘You need to look closely, because Elephant and Castle is a model for other dispossession projects’

Elephant and Castle is London’s gentrification ‘ground zero’ – where a blueprint for other large scale regeneration projects is to be made. There is an ethnically diverse community of traders, workers, shoppers, passers-by and residents who all rely on the affordable services provided by the Elephant and Castle Shopping Centre in Southwark. However, this appears

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JENGba fundraiser

A night of fun, dancing and activism to raise funds for the fight for justice! With a Bar, Fantastic Raffle Prizes, a Quiz and Speakers include ex Joint Enterprise prisoners. Please bring and share food Special apprearance by Ocean Blue Entertainment, DJ Kutlas and DJ Teka. Playing RnB, hip hop, soulful house and a touch of

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News

Calendar of racism and resistance (31 October – 13 November 2019)

A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. ASYLUM AND MIGRATION Asylum and migrant rights 1 November: The international protection and other provisions law, rushed through the Greek parliament in a matter of days, aimed at curbing the sharpest increase in arrivals since 2015, will restrict

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Comment

Grieve the Essex 39, but recognise the root causes

In the wake of the deaths of 39 migrants in a lorry container, daikon*’s Kay Stephens writes on the global structures of capitalism and imperialism and the deadly border regimes that led to their deaths. On 24 October, daikon*, a group of anti-racist creatives of east and south east Asian descent, organised a vigil outside

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News

Ian Macdonald 1939-2019

Ian Macdonald, whose death was announced on 12 November, was a pioneer of committed anti-racist legal practice, as a criminal lawyer and later, as the founding father of immigration law. The son of a Scottish senior police officer, Ian started out in an ‘establishment’ set of chambers in the early 1960s, which he left after

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Social movement unionism and the global uprising against poverty wages

Join us to hear Annelise Orleck present and discuss her book, We are all fast food workers now, tracing the new global movement against low pay, through the stories of workers in the fast-food and garment industries, in hotel, domestic and agricultural work. Also speaking: Representative from IWGB and Khadija Najlaoui (Waling Waling and union rep for United Migrant

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Review

Here to fight: building communities of resistance

Two new anthologies of pieces from the magazines Race Today and Race & Class recall important struggles on the streets, the factory floors and in communities, linking them to both class and global internationalism.     It is salutary that at a time when racism is getting redefined in some sectors and official investigations as identity loss,

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