She says 'This is less a history book and more a vivid community memoir focused on ensuring that historical lessons can be applied to the here and now.'

Come What May, We're Here to Stay The Story of South Asian Resistance in Britain by Taj Ali. Joint-editor of Race & Class, Jenny Bourne, reviews Ali's book. irr.org.uk/article/rc-review…

Within the piece, the authors also explore culture as liberation techniques, using James’ cricket and Jones’ carnival as examples.

The totality problem: C.L.R. James, Claudia Jones and critical theory by Scott Timcke and Shelene Gomes.

📖 Back in 1995, CARF (Campaign against Racism and Fascism) also part of IRR, wrote on Joy’s trial and the continual denial of Justice. You can access this piece via the link in our bio.

They talk about her death leading to an effort to unify family struggles to form @UFFCampaign (United Friends and Family Campaign).

33 years ago, Joy Gardner was killed by the police in her home. ✊🏾 In this piece for Race & Class, The People’s Tribunal on Police Killings opens with a quote from Joy’s mother, Myrna Gardner.

This, alongside its espousal of increasingly extreme rhetoric on immigration, can be understood as a feature of ‘labourism’, a political formation that plays a continuing role in the reproduction of racial capitalism in Britain.

📕Labour’s island of strangers: race, class and the politics of immigration in Starmer’s Britain by David Bates doi.org/10.1177/030639682614…

‘Obstinate memory: the People’s Tribunal on Police Killings’ by Ken Fero, Jodie Bradshaw and Samantha Patterson. 📕 Lead article for July Race & Class Listen to Samantha Patterson, one of the authors, and co-founder of @TribunalPeoples tell us more in this video.