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IRR's Sophia Siddiqui has a discussion with Amrit Wilson, an activist and writer, whose seminal book Finding a Voice: struggles of South Asian women has just been republished, forty years later.
Meena Masood, Seán Binder's partner and member of #FreeHumanitarians, calls for solidarity and support for the three humanitarians arrested and detained in Greece since August.
Asylum and migration
A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe.
Eliane Edmond-Pettitt describes how the situation in Calais has changed for volunteers on the ground since the Jungle came down in 2016.
A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe.
The October 2018 issue of Race & Class brings together pieces on racialising domestic violence, #Grime4Corybyn, the rebranding of C.L.R. James for a neoliberal era and memorial tributes to A. Sivanandan.
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A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe.
How labels serve to justify and normalise the worst of the EU’s migration practices.
The coordinator of the IRR’s Black History Collection digs deep into the archive and shows how public opinion is constructed
A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe.
A review of a publication on The Stars Campaign for Interracial Friendship, which arose to combat racism after the 1958 anti-black ‘riots’.
One of the most influential black Marxist thinkers of the twentieth century is now being rebranded for the neoliberal era.
Below we reproduce the speech given by human rights lawyer Frances Webber to the meeting ‘Confronting Racism in the UK: a return to collective principles’, organised by the Monitoring Group at Conway Hall on 6 September.
A seminal radical black feminist text, first published in 1985, which tells the story of black women’s experiences in Britain, has now been republished by Verso, at a time when we need it more than ever.
German anti-fascists are asking for support and international protest around events in Chemnitz.
An appeal from German anti-fascists, received via Apaziz
A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe.
Oct 25 2018
Language and vulnerability: interpreting in Immigration Removal Centres
Aisha Maniar discusses Stephen Shaw’s follow-up report on the detention of vulnerable people from the perspective of interpreting facilities for detainees.
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