26 November – 10 December 2024 Our calendar this week features the coordinated raids on homes and on the Kurdish Community Centre in Haringey, north London at 2am on 27 November – involving counter-terror units, closure of airspace, helicopters, dogs and a military-style occupation, which left the community angry and apprehensive. The closure of the centre and
ELECTORAL POLITICS| GOVERNMENT POLICY 26 November: Gavin Robinson, leader of the Democratic Unionist Party, is criticised by a Jewish woman for saying that pro-Palestinian graffiti should be removed from the wall of the Royal Victoria hospital in Belfast on the grounds of ‘Jewish safety’. The graffiti is removed. (Belfast Media, 26 November 2024) 27 November:
12 – 26 November 2024 The IRR is really excited to report that it is looking to recruit a dynamic Deputy Director to drive the organisation forward in challenging times. We are asking anyone interested in helping the IRR develop its next phase as a radical educational body, which ‘thinks in order to do’, to
ELECTORAL POLITICS| GOVERNMENT POLICY 12 November: The Norwegian parliament apologises unreservedly to minority groups and Indigenous people for over a century of injustices caused by its ‘Norwegianisation’ policy. (Guardian, 12 November 2024) 13 November: Speaking in the Dutch parliament, far-right PVV leader Geert Wilders recommends cancelling the Dutch passports of those convicted of involvement in
29 October – 12 November 2024 In a speech to INTERPOL last week, as we report in our regular calendar of racism and resistance, the prime minister announced that he is doubling the funding of the Border Security Command (BSC) to £150m and giving it counter-terrorism powers to deal with what he described as the national security threat
The documentation of the violence surrounding a Europa League football match in Amsterdam, between local team Ajax and Israel’s Maccabi Tel Aviv, crosses many sections of this week’s calendar. For the full picture, look at the following sections: electoral politics, policing | criminal justice, media | culture| sport and racial violence. ELECTORAL POLITICS |
15 – 29 October 2024 Following firearms officer Martyn Blake’s acquittal just over a week ago of the murder of Chris Kaba, it did not take long for the home secretary to cave in to demands from the National Police Chiefs Council to rewrite the framework for the investigation and prosecution of police officers. Yvette Cooper’s proposed reforms follow
ELECTORAL POLITICS| GOVERNMENT POLICY 19 October: In Ranst, a municipality in the Belgian province of Antwerp, local parties PIT and Vrij Ranst agree to form a coalition with the far-right Vlaams Belang party, breaking Belgium’s cordon sanitaire against the nationalist party for the first time since 1989. (Belga, 19 October 2024) 24 October: Freedom party
Francesca Humi, organiser and writer and former coordinator of the Crossborder Forum, asks what has changed in migration and border policies in Britain and France since the electoral change. Britain and France: electoral change This summer has brought about major electoral change in the UK and France. The Labour party unseated the Conservative government
17 October 2024 In a Guardian piece following a Guardian/ Hope Not Hate investigation into an international network of activists and academics seeking to normalise scientific racism, IRR Director Liz Fekete warns on the danger posed today by scientific racism. Here is the full statement upon which her comments are based. Black health campaigners, committed
