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
ELECTORAL POLITICS | GOVERNMENT POLICY 21 August: Amnesty International UK accuses Labour of promoting an ‘age-old message of fear and hostility’ as home secretary Yvette Cooper vows to increase removals, target people smugglers and reopen immigration removal centres. (Guardian, 21 August 2024) 22 August: MEND publishes ‘No Race to the Bottom: Avoiding further curbs to
This briefing paper asks if it makes sense any more to isolate the far Right from a reconfigured, identitarian and traditionalist hard Right. It attempts to do so by providing a detailed but easily accessible account of how far-right ideas have already passed into the mainstream and what we can do to push back
6 – 20 August 2024 The far-right-orchestrated riots, birthed in the political and media mainstreaming of hate, has left the communities targeted for racist violence outraged and exhausted. But, with the government choosing to ignore the racist intent of the far Right in favour of the ‘violent thuggery’ narrative, it has become clear that, where the far
ELECTORAL POLITICS| GOVERNMENT POLICY 6 August: A YouGov poll shows that opposition to the far-right riots is near-universal across the public, with Reform UK voters the only group showing any substantive levels of support at 21 per cent. Even this is a clear minority, with three-quarters of Reform voters (76 per cent) opposed to the
The July 2024 issue of Race & Class includes several articles which use past struggles to reread the present. In a thought-provoking article, Natasha Carver (University of Bristol) sheds light on the contours of the present-day narrative of ‘Female Genital Mutilation’, by analysing how, in the heyday of empire, the issue was first raised
23 July – 6 August We want to begin by sending our solidarity to those resisting racial violence and building solidarity in our communities – it has been heartening to see neighbours support one another, as well as the growing anti-racist movement against the far Right. Our last newsletter, headed ‘Disinformation fuels racism’, could well
ELECTORAL POLITICS | GOVERNMENT POLICY 23 July: Germany’s governing coalition puts forward reforms to protect its Federal Constitutional Court from political influence from the rising far-right AfD by enshrining its procedures in the constitution. (Deutsche Welle, 23 July 2024) 24 July: To combat ‘Islamic extremism’, Germany’s interior minister closes down the Islamic Centre in
These far-right riots and the ensuing racist and Islamophobic violence are unparalleled. Yet the government’s response is to focus on ‘violent disorder across the ideological spectrum’. This dissimulation cannot go unchallenged. You can’t solve a problem unless you name it. How is it possible to deny, after far-right rioters exploit the horrific killing of
