A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. Asylum & migration 20 September: The House of Commons European Scrutiny Committee publishes: EU Asylum Reform, download the report here. 12 October: The FN-backed mayor of the southern French town of Béziers launches a referendum on whether the town
The first London Migration Film Festival with films focussing on migration with concerts, panel discussions and space for dialogue. 11-13 November 2016 Two venues in South London Films include: 11 November: On the Bride’s Side 12 November: Pawo 12 November: Baran Related links London Migration Film Festival Facebook page
A party to celebrate ten years of the South Yorkshire Migration Asylum Action Group (SYMAAG). Saturday 12 November 2016 St Andrews Church, Upper Hanover Street, Sheffield S3 7RQ Related links SYMAAG SYMAAG on Facebook
A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. Asylum & migration 1 October: Plans for a replacement Dungavel detention centre are revealed, to be sited near Glasgow Airport on an industrial estate, with a 12-foot fence. (The National, 1 October 2016) 1 October: Charities working at
Below we reproduce excerpts from anti-fascist activist Joschka Fröschner’s October 2016 Race & Class article ‘German development aid and the politics of pre-emption’. Forty years ago, development aid programmes in the ‘Third World’, if colonial in thrust and often imperial in economic purpose, were at least usually recognisably different from war, conflict and internal repression. And
The October 2016 of Race & Class leads with two very timely and politically-provoking articles on the international impact of securitisation. Chandra Russo (of Colgate University, US) explores, through the protests of the group Witness Against Torture, how solidarity with those detained at Guantánamo has been maintained on US streets and how the plight of detainees
The annual London anarchist bookfair. Saturday 29 October 2016, 10-7pm Park View School, West Green Road, London N15 3QR (nearest station: Seven Sisters, Victoria Line) Related links Anarchist Book Fair
A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. Asylum and migration 15 September: Corporate Watch publishes: UK Detention Centres Factsheet (September 2016), view here or download here (pdf file, 108kb). 15 September: The Ministry of Justice announces increases of up to 500 per cent in court
A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. Violence and harassment 24 August: Self-defence classes for Muslims and others from BAME communities in Swansea are launched, following concerns about racist violence in the locality. (BBC News, 24 August 2016) 1 September: A man who racially abuses
As the police investigate the murder of a Polish factory worker in Harlow, the Institute of Race Relations publishes today its evidence to the House of Commons Home Affairs Committee Inquiry into Hate Crime and its Violent Consequences. ‘There has’, according to the IRR, ‘been a return to old school racism, the racism of the
