Summer party

A Room to Heal presents an evening of food, music and performance. Friday 1 July 2016, from 6pm Room to Heal, Mildmay Community Centre, Woodville Road, London N16 8NA Related links Room to Heal View a flyer here

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Unlocking immigration detention

A public meeting on immigration detention. Wednesday 13 July 2016, 5.30-7.30pm James Callaghan Lecture Theatre, Swansea University, Swansea SA2 8PP Related links View a flyer here Right to Remain Swansea City of Sanctuary

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Spirit of Soweto

An event to remember the Soweto uprisings of June 1976 which will draw comparisons with recent events as well as the modern day struggle against racial inequality and the struggle for social change. Saturday 18 June 2016, 11-5pm Barbara Strang Teaching Centre, Newcastle University, Newcastle Upon Tyne NE1 7RU Workshops include: The Soweto Uprising and

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News

Cedric Robinson 1940 – 2016

It is with immense sadness that we record the death of the IRR’s great friend and stalwart supporter Cedric Robinson in Santa Barbara California on 4 June. Cedric had been connected to Race & Class for almost forty years, writing first in early 1978 (on Richard Wright), joining its Editorial Working Committee in 1980, becoming

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News

Calendar of racism and resistance (27 May – 9 June 2016)

A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. Asylum & migration 17 May: The Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration launches a survey to gauge views on the work of the Inspectorate, which is open until Monday 27 June 2016. Take part in the survey here.

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Tributes to Cedric Robinson

Below we publish tributes to Cedric Robinson. Tom Denyer As intellectual careers go, Professor Cedric Robinson’s serves as a textbook. His first priority, teaching, relied on close, generous engagement with the mind of the individual student. He still found time for disciplined, objective, assiduous research and writing. His genuine interest in the work of his

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Fight or flight in the face of Hungary’s new fascism

© Terri Potoczna Fussen

Activist and poet Sam Berkson examines grassroots resistance to the social and political crisis in Hungary.  On 15 March, a national holiday commemorating the revolution of 1848, some 50,000 people pressed into the rain-soaked square in front of Parliament to listen to speeches, sing together and shout for the removal of Prime Minister Viktor Orbán. The teachers,

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The Passing of the King

We reproduce below A. Sivanandan’s eulogy on Muhammad Ali on the day he lost to Joe Frazier in March 1971. Tonight the black world weeps that their king has passed away. But tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow… every black man will have become his own king – for that is the legacy that Muhammad Ali

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Bridges Not Borders

A meeting to discuss issues around migration, free movement and how social justice groups can defeat poverty and social inequality.   Thursday 9 June 2016, 6pm Global Justice Now, SOAS, Vernon Square, Penton Rise, London WC1X 9EW Speakers:  Liz Fekete – Director of the Institute of Race Relations Barbara Ntumy – student campaigner Dr Paolo Novak – Convenes

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News

Calendar of racism and resistance (6 – 26 May 2016)

A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. Asylum & migration 9 May: A 26-year-old Syrian refugee is shot in the kidney and wounded by Slovakian border guards on the border between Slovakia and Hungary, near the town of Velky Meder. The woman is in a

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