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
A one-day conference bringing together campaigners, trade unionists, activists and thinkers to examine the changing nature of work and the terrains for resistance. Saturday 26 November 2016, 10.30-4.30pm Willesden Library Centre, 95 High Road, London NW10 2SF Forty years ago Asian women at Grunwick led a strike for basic human dignity at work and for the
An action workshop for Universal Children’s Day organised by Stop G4S Sheffield and South Yorkshire Migration and Asylum Action Group (SYMAAG). Saturday 19 November 2016, 10-4pm Quaker Meeting House, Sheffield, 10 St James Street, Sheffield S1 2EW Speakers: Carolyne Willow – Children Behind Bars Clare Sambrook – OpenDemocracy.net Eric Allison – Guardian prison correspondent of the since 2003 Speaker from Action for
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
The annual 18th remembrance procession organised by the families and friends of those who have died while in the custody the state. Saturday 29 October 2016, 12-4pm Assemble at Trafalgar Square, London to march to Downing Street Every year since 1999, the UFFC holds its annual remembrance procession from Trafalgar Square to Downing Street to
A screening of The Great Grunwick Strike 1976-78 followed by a panel discussion. Wednesday 2 November 2016, 7-9.30pm SOAS, Khalili Lecture Theatre, Lower Ground Floor, Main Building, Thornhaugh Street, London WC1H 0XG Panel: Amrit Wilson – Writer, activist and member of South Asian Solidarity Group Consuelo Moreno – SOAS Justice for Cleaners Campaign Sujata Aurora – Grunwick 40
An exhibition commemorating the Grunwick Strike 1976-78. Opens Wednesday 19 October 2016 – Sunday 26 March 2017 Brent Museum & Archives, The Library at Willesden Green, 95 High Road, London NW10 2SF Forty years ago a group of workers in a backstreet Willesden factory stood up to their unfair bosses and kickstarted one of the longest and most important
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
Theresa May’s ‘one-nation’ policies are incoherent and divisive. Theresa May came to office declaring that she would lead a ‘one nation government’ and promising to ‘make Britain a country that works for everyone’. In holding out her progressive politics on ‘race’, May suggests a willingness to investigate claims that the police spied on the Stephen
