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A recent tome by Prospect founder David Goodhart on The British Dream is getting unwarranted coverage in the media.
A collection of essays on varieties of European racism contains valuable insights and useful lessons.
A new musical based on the story of the Glasgow Girls, who fought for the rights of asylum seeking children, is a masterpiece.
A new report by an Irish community group based in Liverpool is a call for help against growing far-right and Loyalist attacks.
A new history of the far Right shines a light on the culpability of centre-ground politics for fascist gains.
The Need to Know Campaign exposes global acts and practices that harm women.
Two recent reports add fuel to growing demands to rethink indefinite immigration detention.
Two challenging new books to inspire young people in these grim, austere and unjust times.
A recent publication on policing from rightwing think-tank Civitas extends its attack on anti-racism into a ‘white victimhood’ thesis.
I found myself in a tearful state on my first visit to ‘The Robinson Institute’ exhibition, curated by artist Patrick Keiller in the main hall at Tate Britain - moved to tears, but wearing a big grinning smile on my face.
A new report from Germany highlights the institutional racism that lies behind official responses to the far Right.
In June, the second review of terrorism acts was published by David Anderson, QC, the Independent Reviewer of Terrorism Legislation. Given the limits of his remit, he has provided a circumscribed critique. Nonetheless, the report points towards possible reform of the now well-entrenched terrorism laws.
Fair’s Fair, a new free educational resource by Playfair 2012, aims to raise awareness of the human rights abuses of workers who make sporting goods for the Olympics and other major sporting events.
On 5 July, Fully Focused Productions’ one-hour documentary Riot from Wrong premiered as part of the East End Film Festival at the Rio Cinema, Dalston, just a few miles down the road from Tottenham police station, where the riots began nearly one year ago.
Margins to Mainstream: the story of Black Theatre in Britain is a new film produced by young people covering the history of Black theatre in Britain.
The government routinely breaches its own policies by detaining torture survivors, according to a report published this week by Medical Justice.
A critical look at the recent box office hit – The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel.
The Children’s Commissioner’s exclusion inquiry reveals entrenched discrimination and ‘illegal’ exclusions.
In a nutshell, Stop Search, plays out the devastating impact that the policy of stop and search can have on a family.
Migreurop, a coalition of organisations from thirteen European, African and Middle Eastern countries, has produced an extremely useful and powerful report which describes in detail ways in which the policy of preventing the entry of undocumented migrants is implemented.
A report on ‘apathetic children’ in Sweden is important for UK asylum campaigners for the light it sheds on a condition so far unrecognised here.
A book on black British strugglers opens up new vistas.
A new resource on Gypsies and Travellers written by young children.
The pamphlet, The Fight Against fascism in Brighton & the South Coast is the published version of a talk by veteran left-wing socialist and anti-fascist, Tony Greenstein.
The Children's Society has recently published a report on levels of destitution and poverty among asylum-seeking and migrant youth.