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General Rights & Justice

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This section covers topics such as human & civil rights, race & society, history, law, race, and personal accounts etc.

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A ‘Bleak House’ for Our Times
(Tim Cleary)
In true Dickensian fashion, a new report reveals the appalling treatment of society’s forgotten victims, namely female rape survivors and torture victims held at Yarl’s Wood Removal Centre.

And Still I Rise
(Doreen Lawrence)
If ever the judicial system, our government, and the general attitude of the majority white community has ever been challenged, then it is thanks to the determination of Doreen Lawrence and her family.

Bring on the Apocalypse
(George Monbiot)
In this series on money, religion, war, power, culture and nature, Monbiot explains why we are heading into an uncertain future in which peace and sound politics are paramount to our survival.

Catching History on the Wing
(A. Sivanandan)
This book is part of Pluto’s 21st birthday series ‘Get Political’, which brings essential political writing by Marx, Lenin, Fanon et al to a new audience.

Freedom Next Time
(John Pilger)
‘Freedom Next Time’ was published on 5 June 2006 .
This is John Pilger’s first major collection since ‘The New Rulers of the World’ and includes chapters on Afghanistan, Palestine , South Africa and India.

Infidel
(Ayaan Hirsi Ali)
Ayaan Hirsi Ali tells her astonishing life story, from her traditional Muslim childhood in Somalia, Saudi Arabia, and Kenya, to her intellectual awakening and activism in the Netherlands, and her current life under armed guard in the West.

Introducing the Commission (CCRC) (pdf file)
This publication is provided by the Criminal Cases Review Commission. Includes background to the commission and its purpose, and advice relating to taking out a complaint or request for a case review.

I Write What I Like
(Steve Biko)
I Write What I Like contains a selection of Biko’s writings from 1969, when he became the president of the South African Students’ Organization, to 1972, when he was prohibited from publishing.

Just Law
(Helena Kennedy)
Challenges the record of modern governments, even, or especially, ‘benign’ democracies.

Legal Representation (CCRC) (pdf file)
This publication is provided by the Criminal Cases Review Commission. Includes advice and information about your legal rights and access to legal representation when applying to the CCRC. You can download the booklet here.

No Smoke
(Sandra Lean)
A shocking, but true, discovery. Innocent people are being locked up in our prisons, convicted of the most horrific crimes, on a regular basis. These are not one-off, tragic mistakes, but rather, a outine, everyday occurrence.

Rebel, Rebel: The Protestor’s Handbook
(Bibi van der Zee)
Step by step, journalist and activist Bibi van der Zee reveals just how easy it is to launch, publicise and fund a campaign and to organise everything from boycotts, protest marches and direct action.

Refugee Children in the UK
(Michael A. Mello)
Explores the diverse situations of refugee and asylum-seeking children in the UK and the hostile reception that very often creates barriers to their educational success.

The Wretched of the Earth
(Frantz Fanon)
Those reviews that castigate Fanon for “glorifying violence” ought to be ignored. Fanon is writing, among other things, a phenomenology of anti-colonialism. It is meant neither as a recommendation nor a condemnation but as a description of the objective truth of a historical condition.

Unpeople: Britain ’s Secret Human Rights Abuses
(Mark Curtis)
Britain is complicit in the deaths of ten million people. Those whose lives are seen as expendable in the pursuit of Britain ’s economic and political goals.

We Want Freedom: A Life in the Black Panther Party
(Mumia Abu-Jamal)
Award-winning journalist and political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal provides a compelling insider’s account of one of America’s most renown radical organizations, the Black Panther Party.

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“The greatest weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the minds of the oppressed themselves“

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No Smoke
(Sandra Lean)

http://www.amazon.co.uk/No-Smoke-Shocking-British-Justice/dp/184685704X/ref=sr_1_1/026-0368965-4833245?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1179566337&sr=8-1

A shocking, but true, discovery.
Innocent people are being locked
up in our prisons, convicted of
the most horrific crimes, on a
regular basis. These are not
one-off, tragic mistakes, but
rather, a outine, everyday
occurrence.

Infidel
(Ayaan Hirsi Ali)

http://www.powells.com/cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=74-9780743289689-0

Ayaan Hirsi Ali tells her astonishing life story, from her traditional Muslim childhood in Somalia, Saudi Arabia, and Kenya, to her intellectual awakening and activism in the Netherlands, and her current life under armed guard in the West.

Freedom Next Time
(John Pilger)

http://www.johnpilger.com/page.asp?partid=6

‘Freedom Next Time’ was published on 5 June 2006 .
This is John Pilger’s first major collection since ‘The New Rulers of the World’ and includes chapters on Afghanistan, Palestine , South Africa
and India.

And Still I Rise
(Doreen Lawrence)

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Still-I-Rise-Doreen-Lawrence/dp/0571227546/ref=pd_sim_b_2

If ever the judicial system, our government, and the general attitude of the majority white community has ever been challenged, then it is thanks to the determination of Doreen Lawrence and her family.

Introducing the Commission (CCRC) *
This publication is provided by the Criminal Cases Review Commission. Includes background to the commission and its purpose, and advice relating to taking out a complaint or request for a case review.
(pdf file)

Legal Representation
(CCRC) *
This publication is provided by the Criminal Cases Review Commission. Includes advice and information about your legal rights and access to legal representation when applying to the CCRC. You can download the booklet here.
(pdf file)

The New East End
(Jenny Bourne)

http://www.amazon.co.uk/New-East-End-Geoff-Dench/dp/1861979282/sr=1-1/qid=1164557093/ref=sr_1_1/026-0386710-4961240?ie=UTF8&s=books

A new book on London’s East End blames multiculturalism, and especially the sharing of welfare benefits with ‘newcomer’ Bengalis, for white working
class racism.

A ‘Bleak House’ for Our Times
(Tim Cleary)

http://www.irr.org.uk/2005/december/tc000023.html

In true Dickensian fashion, a new report reveals the appalling treatment of society’s forgotten victims, namely female rape survivors and torture victims held at Yarl’s Wood Removal Centre.

Unpeople: Britain ’s Secret Human Rights Abuses
(Mark Curtis)

http://www.newsfromnowhere.org.uk/books/DisplayBookInfo.php?ISBN=0099469723

Britain is complicit in the deaths of ten million people. Those whose lives are seen as expendable in the pursuit of Britain ’s economic and
political goals.

I Write What I Like
(Steve Biko)

http://www.press.uchicago.edu/presssite/metadata.epl?mode=synopsis&bookkey=3632310

I Write What I Like contains a selection of Biko’s writings from 1969, when he became the president of the South African Students’ Organization, to 1972, when he was prohibited from publishing.

We Want Freedom: A Life in the Black Panther Party
(Mumia Abu-Jamal)

http://www.play.com/Books/Books/4-/464816/We-Want-Freedom/Product.html

Award-winning journalist and political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal provides a compelling insider’s account of one of America’s most renown
radical organizations, the
Black Panther Party.

Refugee Children in the UK
(Michael A. Mello)

http://www.mcgraw-hill.co.uk/html/0335213731.html

Explores the diverse situations
of refugee and asylum-seeking children in the UK and the
hostile reception that very often creates barriers to their educational success.

Catching History on the Wing
(A. Sivanandan)

http://www.irr.org.uk/2008/september/ha000014.html

This book is part of Pluto’s 21st birthday series ‘Get Political’, which brings essential political writing by Marx, Lenin, Fanon et al to a new audience.

Just Law
(Helena Kennedy)

http://www.newsfromnowhere.org.uk/books/DisplayBookInfo.php?ISBN=0099458330

Challenges the record of modern governments, even, or especially, ‘benign’ democracies.

Bring on the Apocalypse
(George Monbiot)

http://www.newsfromnowhere.org.uk/books/DisplayBookInfo.php?ISBN=9781843548584

In this series on money, religion, war, power, culture and nature, Monbiot explains why we are heading into an uncertain future in which peace and sound politics are paramount to our survival.

Rebel, Rebel: The Protestor’s Handbook
(Bibi van der Zee)

http://www.newsfromnowhere.org.uk/books/DisplayBookInfo.php?ISBN=9780852650950

Step by step, journalist and activist Bibi van der Zee reveals just how easy it is
to launch, publicise and fund a campaign and to organise everything from boycotts, protest marches and direct action.