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
A year on from Brexit and in the wake of Finsbury Park: How do we tackle hate crime and bigotry? Thursday 29 June 2017, registration: 6.45pm, event: 7-8.30pm Room 308, University of the Arts London, 272 High Holborn, London WC1V 7EY A year has passed since the UK voted to leave the European Union, and
HISTORY ACTS is a new radical history forum, affiliated to the Raphael Samuel Centre, and based at the University of London. Sessions are free and open to all, with this event taking place in Birmingham. Thursday 6 July 2017, 11-12.30pm Modern British Studies Conference 2017, University of Birmingham, Arts Building, B15 2TT. HISTORY ACTS aims
A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. Violence and harassment 25 May: A 71-year-old man and 69-year-old woman are racially abused in Irvine by a man who asks if they have ‘bombs’. Craig Sharpe, 45, is later charged with acting in a racially aggravated manner.
Radical booksellers and publishers, comix and zine makers, artists and activists, small press, exhibitions, workshops and talks. Saturday 24 June 2017, 12-6 pm Great Hall, Goldsmiths, University of London, New Cross, London SE14 6NW related links Event page
A conference that interrogates how borders are extended spatially and temporally, from the geo-political borders of the nation-state to the spaces and times of everyday life. It will explore resistances to these processes and include discussions on the policing and proliferation of these internal borders Saturday 17 June 2017, 9.30-5.30 pm Room B01, Clore Management
A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. Post-Manchester 22 May: Following a suicide-bomb attack at the Ariana Grande concert in the Manchester arena, which left 22 people dead, many young people, and hundreds injured, Greater Manchester mayor Andy Burnham tells BBC News that Mancunians will not
Below we publish an excerpt of a commentary in the April 2017 issue of Race & Class, in which Colin Prescod (IRR Chair) examines the challenges of black heritage facing archivists today. This is an edited version of a keynote speech to the annual conference of the Archives and Records Association 2016 in which a leading
