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The shameful ‘Go Home’ campaign 22 Aug 2013 | 08:15 pm
The rhetoric on migrants shows how politicians and the media have created, and embedded, racism in British politics. Recent controversy over the Home Office ’Go Home’ campaign on ‘illegal’ immigrants...
Dealing with the legacies of Dutch slavery 22 Aug 2013 | 08:13 pm
How, asks a Dutch anti-racist, is slavery dealt with in the Netherlands? 2013 marks 150 years since the abolition of slavery in the former Dutch colonies. It’s worth mentioning that the Dutch abolish...
Anti-racist convoy 22 Aug 2013 | 07:57 pm
An anti-racist convoy of vans, cars, bikes and motorbikes travelling through London under the slogan of ‘One London Against Hate’. Sunday 1 September 2013, 12-4pm Meeting at Tower Hamlets, London E1...
Resistance to racism and fascism 22 Aug 2013 | 07:54 pm
A meeting to oppose racism and fascism in London’s East End. Saturday 31 August 2013, 6pm The Rag Factory, 16-18 Heneage Street, London E1 5LJ Speakers include: Max Levitas Julie Begum Daniel .....
Pat Guerin: an anti-racist pioneer 22 Aug 2013 | 07:15 pm
On 13 June 2013 our comrade Irish anti-racist activist Pat Guerin died aged 56. Born in Dublin, Pat was second eldest in a family of four. Pat grew up in a caring family giving help and support to hi...
Graham Usher 1958-2013 22 Aug 2013 | 06:50 pm
The staff of the Institute of Race Relations were very saddened to learn of the death of Graham Usher on 8 August. He was, for two decades, one of the most stalwart of contributors to our quarterly j...
‘Who Polices The Police?’ 21 Aug 2013 | 03:25 pm
Ken Fero, director of Who Polices The Police?, discusses the making of the film that examines the complicity of state institutions in deaths in custody and the struggle of one family for justice. Nea...
Landlords as immigration police? 15 Aug 2013 | 07:20 pm
Below we reproduce a submission to a current government consultation by Frances Webber, a retired immigration barrister. Response to consultation document ‘Tackling illegal immigration in privately r...
Responses to the government’s ‘go home’ campaign 15 Aug 2013 | 07:11 pm
Anti-racists are mobilising against the government’s ‘summer of attacks on immigrants’. The Home Office has ramped up enforcement measures against ’irregular’ migrants, with its ‘go home’ campaign an...
Stop the governments ‘Go Home campaign’ 9 Aug 2013 | 05:57 pm
A series of public workshops in London to support those mobilising against the government’s ‘Go Home’ campaign. Monday 12 August 2013, 6pm RAMFEL, Cardinal Heenan Centre, Ilford IG1 1QP Tuesday 13...
