Programme
Border Imperialism and Racist Nationalism in 2025: A Border & Rule Study Session
Garden Centre - Class Room
12.10.2025
10AM – 11:30AM
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Join Haymarket and Books Against Borders for a radical study session drawing on Harsha Walia's seminal book Border & Rule.

As racist narratives around migration dominate mainstream discourse and we have witnessed the rise of an emboldened far-right both in the streets and in party politics, it is essential that we learn from abolitionist approaches to borders and migration, challenging the binaries of 'citizen' and 'migrant', of 'deserving' and 'undeserving', and of 'illegal' and 'legal' migration. Integrating the lessons of different campaigns and anti-border organisations.

This session will combine movement experience with radical study. Come ready to talk, question, and learn collectively - no previous reading of the text necessary!

Organisations

Ibrahima Bah is a Senegalese asylum seeker who survived a shipwreck in the English Channel in 2022 as a teenager. He has been unjustly prosecuted and cruelly sentenced to nearly a decade in UK prison, in a controversial and unprecedented case where he was individually blamed over the tragic deaths.

Haymarket Books is a radical, independent, nonprofit book publisher based in Chicago.

is an abolitionist, anti-colonial and anti-capitalist political education collective, centring collective learning in organising towards liberated futures.

is an autonomous collective of groups and individuals resisting detention, deportations, and the wider “hostile environment” against migrants in the UK. We are refugees, asylum seekers, migrants, comrades, and community members coming together to fight the UK’s racist, sexist, and colonialist immigration policies that harm us, our families, friends, and communities.

is a grassroots abolitionist visiting group seeking to break the isolation of immigration detention, supporting people through solidarity, not charity, to take control of their cases and resist their imprisonment and deportation, and working towards a world without borders or prisons. 

The alarmphone is a network of activists across Europe, north and west africa that run a 24hr emergency phone line for people on the move. We primarily receive calls from boats crossing the Mediterranean, the Aegean, the Atlantic and the Channel. We work to put pressure on states to inact rescues, document cases of deliberate non assistance and support people in the search for missing friends and family.

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