A meeting on a new Home Office immigration operation, called Operation Skybreaker, which will be targeting Brent (and four other London boroughs). Wednesday 13 August 2014, 7pm Brent Trades Hall (Apollo Club), 375 High Road, London NW10 2JR (next to Willesden bus garage, 5 mins from Dollis Hill tube). Speakers include: RAMFEL (Refugee and Migrant Forum of Essex
Theme: Violence and harassment
Hatred, hysteria and a Trojan Horse
A leading educationalist argues that the report by Peter Clarke into the ‘Trojan Horse’ affair, embraced by the new education secretary, is in fact a grave disservice. On Tuesday 22 July 2014 the new Secretary of State for Education in the UK, Nicky Morgan, made a statement in the House of Commons about the Trojan
Call for apology and inquiry into police spying
This week the mother of Ricky Reel launched a petition following revelations that her family was spied upon, along with a number of others, as they campaigned for justice in the ‘90s. Mrs Reel is the mother of Ricky who was 20-years-old when he was found dead in the River Thames after being racially abused
The ‘Guantánamisation’ of Belgium
A new book on Belgium, Guantanamo chez nous?, is an important contribution to the analysis of racism and the war on terror in Europe. It would be hard to find anyone in the UK who has not heard of Abu Qatada. But how many people know that he was recently acquitted of terrorist charges in Jordan?
Taking on the fraudulent anti-globalisation rhetoric of the Front National
A timely pamphlet aimed primarily at French trades unionists provides an opportunity to reflect on the FN’s growing appeal to working-class voters. ‘If we don’t stop the waves of immigration, in ten years whites will become a minority in France.’ ‘If we had real freedom of expression we would be able to say anything, including
Babar Ahmad and Talha Ahsan and the evidential approach to justice
A racialised justice system providing second-class protection to Muslims can be challenged. So rare is it to encounter a human, non-racist attitude to Muslims accused of support for terrorism, that a judge’s reasonable and evidence-based approach to the sentencing of Babar Ahmad and Talha Ahsan took everyone by surprise. On 17 July, Connecticut chief judge
The business of child detention
Below we reproduce an excerpt from an article in the current issue of Race & Class on the consequences of the co-option of charities and voluntary organisations within the immigration detention market. As a principle, migrant children should not be subjected to detention. (Council of Europe, Commissioner for Human Rights)[1] At Barnado’s, we believe in
March and rally for the abolition of joint enterprise
A march and rally organised by the Joint Enterprise Not Guilty by Association Campaign (JENGbA). Saturday 26 July 2014, assemble at 12pm at Holles Street, next to BHS in Oxford Street, London WC1C 1DL To march to Hyde Park for a picnic Related links Facebook event listing JENGbA website JENGbA blog JENGbA on Twitter
Surround Harmondsworth #3
A demonstration outside Harmondsworth detention centre. Saturday 9 August 2014, at 1pm Harmondsworth detention centre, Colnbrook By-Pass, West Drayton, Middlesex UB7 0HB Speakers include: John McDonnell MP Current & ex-detainee’s Related links Facebook event listing Movement for Justice
Black justice campaigns prepare for new inquiry into undercover policing
Below we publish an edited version of the speech given by Suresh Grover, Director of The Monitoring Group and former coordinator of the Stephen Lawrence Family Campaign, at the parliamentary meeting ‘Police Corruption and racism: an endless legacy‘ on 23 June 2014. Why do the police treat anti-racist and black justice campaigns as though they are subversive