To celebrate the 30th anniversary of ‘The Making of The Black Working Class in Britain’ by Ron Ramdin the TUC Race Relations Committee has organised this event featuring Ron Ramdin in conversation with Roger McKenzie, Assistant General Secretary of UNISON. Saturday 16 April 2016, 6-8pm Trade Union Congress, 23-28 Great Russell Street, London WC1B 3LS Conversation followed by
Theme: Managed migration
No Borders night
The start of monthly No Borders nights in south London, to share experiences and information on various projects, campaigns and protests. Sunday 17 April 2016, 6pm The Field, 385 Queens Road, New Cross, London SE14 5HD Related links Facebook event listing
Calendar of racism and resistance (11 – 24 March 2016)
A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. Asylum and migration 3 March: Home Secretary Theresa May wins the right to deport refused asylum seekers to Afghanistan after the Court of Appeal overturns an injunction imposed following concerns that the country was too dangerous. (Bureau of Investigative Journalism,
The IRR’s big book giveaway
The Institute of Race Relations, based in London’s Kings Cross, is giving away surplus duplicated material and invites individuals and specialist libraries and archives to take the chance of adding to their collections. You will be able to view and take away material from IRR’s ground floor (2-6 Leeke Street, London WC1X 9HS) on Thursday
Stop G4S day school
A day of education, information and discussion leading to action through encouragement of grassroots campaigns. Saturday 9 April 2016, 10.30-5.30pm Quaker Meeting House, 10 James Street, Sheffield S1 2EW Related links See event on Facebook here
Pit Props
A new radical, illustrated anthology highlights the links between music, politics and protest during the miners’ strike. Mention the miners’ strike of 1984-5 and most people will remember Thatcher and Arthur Scargill. What they may not say is ‘community’. And yet the most important aspect in terms of British history was the strength of community
Black history and black struggle: the past in the present
Below we reproduce a speech at the eleventh annual Huntley Conference on the IRR’s Black History Collection and the importance of archives in signposting the past and future. Today I want to talk to you about an item from the Black History Collection, which is held at the Institute of Race Relations. But before I get
We’re Not Finished!
The launch of an exhibition launch about women’s activism in the East End. Monday 21 March until 21 April 2016 Idea Store Whitechapel, 321 Whitechapel Road, London E1 1BU Related links Eastside Community Heritage View further details here
Calendar of racism and resistance (26 February – 10 March 2016)
A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. Asylum 25 February: Home Office statistics reveal that the number of unaccompanied asylum seeking children has increased by over 50 per cent in the last year, with 3,043 children seeking asylum in 2015, compared with 1,945 in 2014.
Sites of Confinement: Confines, Control and Resistance at the Border
A day conference focused on the sites of confinement regarding migration, race, racism and physical, social and spatial bordering control. Thursday 17 March 2016, 9-6pm Campus Luigi Einaudi, University of Turin, Lungo Dora Siena 100/A-10154, Turin, Italy Speakers include: Antigone Association Monish Bhatia Victoria Canning Valeria Ferraris Evgenia Iliadou Simone Santorso Alvise Sbraccia No Borders