News

When Memory does NOT die

The legacy of A. Sivanandan, who passed away on 3 January, is being widely noted. The funeral will be small and private but a public memorial event will take place later this year. While the date and venue of the memorial has yet to be announced, the launch of Liz Fekete’s new book, Europe’s Fault

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The first Stuart Hall public conversation

The first Stuart Hall Public Conversation bringing together writers, performers and artists for an afternoon of stimulating talks, readings and performances. Saturday 3 February 2018, 2pm Conway Hall, 25 Red Lion Square, London WC1R 4RL  Speakers and performers include: Mona Arshi David Edgar Pankaj Mishra Gilane Tawadros Lanre Malaolu Related links Stuart Hall Foundation View full details here

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Is the Era of Universal Human Rights Coming to an End?

Conor Gearty, Professor of Human Rights Law at LSE, will deliver the Corin Redgrave Memorial Lecture 2018. Saturday 27 January 2018, 2-4pm Conway Hall, 25 Red Lion Square, London WC1R 4RL Related links Book a ticket here Download a flyer here (pdf file, 53kb)

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Press Release

A. Sivanandan 1923 – 2018

A. Sivanandan, the Director Emeritus of the Institute of Race Relations and founding editor of Race & Class has passed away. The Institute of Race Relations would like to thank everyone who has sent tributes and messages of condolences following the death of A. Sivanandan on Wednesday 3 January. As his family and friends mourn

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Review

The road to anti-racism

A unique project tells the tale of how militant anti-racists in the 1970s helped create the multicultural London now taken for granted. 1976-7 was the pivotal year in the annals of British anti-racism. There was the vilification in the press of Asians fleeing Malawi, the murder of Gurdip Singh Chaggar in the heart of Southall,

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News

Calendar of racism and resistance (1-14 December 2017)

A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. Asylum and migration 29 November: Four migrants die in a car crash after their overcrowded car, carrying eight migrants, plunges off a ninety foot cliff during a police chase in Thessaloniki, northern Greece. (APNews, 29 November 2017) 5

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The Hawthorn Archive book launch

Les Back, Brenna Bhandar and Kodwo Eshun join Avery Gordon to discuss her new book, ‘The Hawthorn Archive: Letters from the Utopian Margins’, which presents a selection of the Hawthorn Archive’s collections. Friday 15 December 2017, 5-7 pm The Showroom, 63 Penfold Street, London NW8 8PQ The Hawthorn Archive, named after the richly fabled tree, is a disorganised and

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Comment

Deaths in the Direct Provision system in Ireland

In the fourth of a series, asylum campaigner John Grayson examines the deaths that have occurred of asylum seekers housed in the Direct Provision (DP) system in Ireland. Sharon Waters of the Irish Refugee Service described the lack of information on deaths and the number of suicides in direct provision accommodation centres as ‘shambolic’ …Waters

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News

Calendar of racism and resistance (17 – 30 November 2017)

A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. Asylum and migration 13 November: Nepalese man, Suraj Sapkota, is awarded £24,515.43 by the High Court for false imprisonment, after he was arrested and detained for thirty-six days because immigration officials wrongly believed he was marrying bigamously. (Free

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Comment

Daisy and the £4 billion asylum housing contracts

© J. Grayson

As the tendering process for £4 billion worth of contracts over ten years gets under way, asylum campaigner John Grayson examines the market for asylum seekers’ housing in the UK. G4S dumps toddler with rare cancer in dirty asylum house with rats in the yard. Can G4S be trusted to be given part of the new

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