A vital resource for those interested in the history of anti-racist campaigning has now been made available on the IRR’s website. Seventy-two issues of the magazine CARF published between 1991 and 2003 are now available to download free of charge here. CARF reflected and spoke to the activist movements in the UK over that time,
United Against Injustice is holding its sixteenth annual conference. Saturday 7 October 2017, 10-5pm John Foster Building, 80-98 Mount Pleasant, Liverpool L3 5UZ Speakers include: John O Saptal Ram Dr Denis Eady Trudi Benjamin Michelle Nicolson Related links More information can be found here
The family of Mark Duggan remember him on the 6th anniversary of his death. Friday, 4 August 2017, 4.30-7.30 pm 4.30 pm – Gather at Broadwater Farm N17 5.30 pm – Leave for Tottenham Police Station N17 9JB 6.30 pm – Rally at Tottenham Police Station N17 9JB
The Grenfell Tower inferno throws up all the contradictions between community self-help and resistance and an uncaring state. Fire this time These walls bear witness. ‘Justice’, ‘pity the poor’, ‘fuck the local authority’s Tenants Management Organisation’s, gentrification serving, class-cleansing deception’, they shout. And poignantly, still faintly echoing down the years, from half a century ago,
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A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. Asylum & migration 26 June: The Independent Monitoring Board (IMB) for Yarl’s Wood Immigration Removal Centre (IRC) publishes its Annual Report, which finds the centre still needs improvement. Download it here. (Bedford Today, 28 June 2017) 28 June:
A benefit gig for SOAS Detainee Support Group. Saturday 15 July 2017, 9pm-3am 125 Caledonian Road, Islington, London N1 9RG Featuring: Stand up comedy Sound system Food and drinks Related links SOAS Detainee Support Group SOAS Detainee Support Group on Twitter SOAS Detainee Support Group on Facebook
It is with great sadness that we report the sudden death of radical filmmaker Prasanna Ratnayake. Prasanna, from Sri Lanka, had worked in the UK since 2006 (as and when the Home Office’s rigid rules allowed), until he was finally able to settle here in 2014 with his wife Margaret Henry. Prasanna had been the
A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. Asylum & migration June: The Public Interest Law Unit at Lambeth Law Centre, along with NELMA, launch a crowd-funding appeal to bring a judicial review against Home Office policy of removing rough-sleeping EEA Nationals. View the appeal here.
Go Home? The politics of Immigration Controversies brings together voices against and surrounding the government’s tougher stance on immigration. We hear from community organisations, policy makers, migrants and citizens along with eight social researchers. As indicated by the title, this publication is in direct response to Operation Vaken in 2013, most associated with the Go
