Supporting the anti-racist movement

Until 2003, CARF was Britain's only independent anti-racist magazine, documenting resistance against racism - from black and refugee organisations, monitoring groups, anti-deportation campaigns, football fans, and much more.

The CARF group now supports the work of the IRR news network and has transferred its publishing efforts to this outlet where, we hope, the news and analysis which made CARF magazine a success will continue to find an audience.

The CARF group is not aligned to any political party or tendency. It is composed of individuals from many walks of life: designers, lawyers, journalists, students, race relations workers all of whom share a commitment to fighting racism.

Key issues

Certain aspects of racism are central to CARF's concerns and, in many areas, CARF has put these issues on the anti-racist agenda in Britain. For example, CARF has consistently reported on suspicious black deaths in custody and the non-accountability of our guardians. CARF has also painstakingly followed up racial violence attacks, supporting local campaigners such as the Stephen Lawrence Family Campaign's struggle for justice. For five years CARF has researched, collated and analysed the number of black people, undocumented workers, and asylum-seekers in Europe who have lost their lives because of racism. Also CARF has portrayed the racism within the media, which is intrinsic in images and reports on Africa and Asia, which have the tendency to refer to conflicts in these countries as 'tribal trouble', subsequently reinforcing the superiority of the West over the 'Rest'.

And CARF has highlighted the plight of asylum-seekers through both the dangerous and degrading 'human trade' that brings them to Europe and the discriminatory treatment (including incarceration and deportation) they face once here.