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
ELECTORAL POLITICS| GOVERNMENT POLICY 6 October: University of Potsdam research shows that in three recent state elections, Alternative for Germany (AfD) secured the most votes amongst young voters (29-38 per cent) and was twice as successful at reaching first-time voters on TikTok than all other parties combined. (Azerbaycan24, 6 October 2024) 7 October: In a
Professor Gus John and Jenny Bourne of the Institute of Race Relations, with which Herman was associated for over thirty years, pay tribute to Herman as an indomitable defender of rights, champion of racial justice and, always his own man. From Professor Gus John: Deeply saddened at the news of the death of my
17 September – 1 October 2024 After the law-and-order response to the far-right-orchestrated racist riots comes – seemingly – a return to New Labour policies of community cohesion. A Community Recovery Fund of £15million has been allocated to fund local authority-voluntary sector partnerships in areas affected by the riots. But given the political framing of
ELECTORAL POLITICS | GOVERNMENT POLICY As anti-migrant, anti-equalities, anti-abortion, misogynistic and anti-LGBTQI rhetoric in electoral campaigning are increasingly interlinked, we reflect this in the coverage below which also includes information on the influence of the Christian Right as well as the religious Right generally. 21 September: As thousands of Palestine solidarity activists congregate outside the Labour
3 – 17 September 2024 In this week’s Calendar of Racism and Resistance, we note the aftermath of August’s riots and the arrests and sentencing of the far-right agitators. The Commons Library report ‘Policing responses to the Summer 2024 riots’, which terms them ‘anti-immigration’, but fails to call them out as racist, shows that since
ELECTORAL POLITICS| GOVERNMENT POLICY As anti-migrant, anti-equalities, anti-abortion, misogynistic and anti-LGBTQI rhetoric in electoral campaigning are increasingly interlinked, we reflect this in the coverage below which also includes information on the influence of the Christian Right as well as the religious Right generally. 2 September: The president of the Canary Islands accuses Spain‘s socialist government of
Anne-Ysore Onana-Oteba reviews the biography of Arthur France, a community activist who founded the Leeds Carnival 57 years ago. I have heard the story of my father’s journey from Cameroon to France when he was just 18 years old many times, and with it always came his disappointment at what the promise of a
20 August – 3 September Seven years after the Grenfell fire that took the lives of 72 people and destroyed 151 homes, the inquiry into the disaster has published its report, exposing ‘systematic dishonesty’ by cladding manufacturers, missed opportunities by successive governments, safety issues being ‘ignored, delayed or disregarded’ by a coalition government focussed on
