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.
9 July: In his first Commons speech as prime minister, Starmer hails the diversity, by race and gender, of Parliament; praises new mother of the house Diane Abbott (suspended from the Labour party until the eve of the election); and expresses hopes to replace ‘the politics of performance with the politics of service’. (Guardian, 9 July 2024)
10 July: Data suggests that election photo ID rules prevented 445,000 people from voting, disproportionately affecting ethnic minorities, who were more than twice as likely to be turned away than white voters. (Standard, 9 July 2024)
10 July: French president Emmanuel Macron says that comments made prior to the election by Israeli Diaspora Affairs Minister Amichai Chikli in support of far-right candidate Marine Le Pen were ‘unacceptable’ and that he considered them an interference in French internal affairs. (Al Jazeera, 10 July 2024)
10 July: A third far-right grouping, Europe of Sovereign Nations, is formed in the European parliament, comprising MPs from Alternative for Germany, Our Homeland Movement (Hungary), Rebirth (Bulgaria), Confederation (Poland), Republika (Slovakia), Reconquest (France), Union of People and Justice (Lithuania), and SPD (Czech Republic). (EU Observer, 10 July 2024)
11 July: In an LBC interview, former Labour MP Jon Ashworth blames the organisation The Muslim Vote (TMV), as well as ‘vitriol’ and ‘bullying’ over Gaza, for the fact that he lost his seat in Leicester South at the general election. (Jewish Chronicle, 11 July 2024)
12 July: Analysis by IPPR reveals that only 52 per cent of UK adults voted in the general election, the lowest since 1928, and that turnout was highest where populations were older, wealthy homeowners and white. Turnouts were 7 per cent lower in constituencies with the highest proportion of people from minority ethnic backgrounds. (Guardian, 12 July 2024).
12 July: In Spain, the far-right Vox party abandons its coalition governments with the conservative People’s party in five regions following arguments over the distribution of unaccompanied minors who had arrived via the Canary Islands. (Guardian 12 July 2024)
14 July: The government adviser on political violence calls on the home secretary and the security minister to commission a short inquiry into intimidation of candidates in the general election, suggesting that a ‘concerted campaign by extremists’ poses a grave threat to democracy and singling out ‘aggressive pro-Palestine activists’. (Guardian, 14 July 2024)
16 July: The Electoral Commission announces that it is conducting a survey of candidates’ and electoral administrators’ experiences of intimidation during the general election and will report in the Autumn, as home secretary Yvette Cooper says she will chair the next meeting of the Defending Democracy taskforce. (BBC, 16 July 2024; Guardian, 15 July 2024)
16 July: Diane Abbott MP accuses the government’s political violence tsar of trying to ‘demonise’ pro-Palestinian activists. (Telegraph, 16 July 2024)
16 July: The deputy prime minister says she does not recognise US Republican vice presidential nominee J. D. Vance’s characterisation, at the National Conservativism conference, of Britain under the new Labour government as the world’s first ‘truly Islamist country’ to have a nuclear weapon. (Politico, 16 July 2024)
18 July: Following violence in Leeds, Nigel Farage publishes a tweet claiming the ‘politics of the subcontinent are currently playing out on the streets of Leeds’. A statement that is criticised by West Yorkshire Police and Alex Sobel (Labour MP for Leeds Central and Headingley) who argues it ‘exacerbated’ the situation without a full understanding of the facts, and calls for Farage to apologise. (Daily Mail, 19 July 2024)
ANTI-FASCISM AND THE FAR RIGHT
With anti-migrant, anti-Muslim, anti-equalities, anti-abortion, misogynistic and anti-LGBTQI activities increasingly interlinking, we now incorporate information on the Christian Right as well as the religious Right generally.
16 July: Following arson and violence at Coolock, Dublin, Ireland, analysis of anti-immigrant social media content finds that the spread of disinformation fuelled the attacks. References to ‘the plantation of Ireland conspiracy’, ‘unvetted, child-molesting, Muslim males’ and far-right National Party slogans like ‘House the Irish! Not the World!’ were widespread, with incendiary rhetoric from fake accounts over ‘invasion’ acting as an accelerant that fuels hate and extremism. (The Journal, 16 July 2024; Irish Times, 20 July 2024)
1/2 rosa statement on #coolock #antiracist #anticapitalist #stopthefarright pic.twitter.com/OXFAWSDMLj
— ROSA – Socialist Feminist Movement (@RosaSocFem) July 17, 2024
17 July: A 16-year-old boy is convicted in relation to a series of offences, including three counts of disseminating terrorist publications and one count of racially aggravated criminal damage. The boy, who avoids a custodial sentence, was caught writing the word ‘lies’ over a picture of Auschwitz during a mock GCSE exam. (Mirror, 17 July 2024)
18 July: During the disturbances in Harehills, Leeds, the far-right uses social media to vilify Muslim residents, with Tommy Robinson accusing Green party councillor Mothin Ali of complicity in the disorder when he was attempting, alongside young people from BAME backgrounds, to calm the situation down. (Guardian, 19 July 2024)
1/16🧵 The far-right are again spreading disinformation, this time blaming Muslims for the recent unrest in Harehills, Leeds. Let’s debunk this false narrative…@IRR_News @AntiRacismDay @PolicyCommunity @MABOnline1
— MEND Community (@mendcommunity) July 22, 2024
19 July: At the anti-asylum rally in Coolock, Dublin, Ireland, some protesters carried Irish flags bearing the Proclamation of Independence, which has now become typical of far-right demonstrations in Ireland. Inner City councillor Malachy Steenson and Irish Freedom Party councillor Glen Moore spoke at the event. Police identified disinformation on messaging apps and social media as a significant issue. (Irish Independent, 20 July 2024).
19 July: A study analysing over 80,000 political ads on Facebook and Instagram in the lead up to the 2021 German federal elections finds that the platforms’ algorithms benefit extremist parties, with the right wing AfD party receiving 203.49 impressions per euro, compared with the average 126.71. (Psypost, 19 July 2024)
20 July: In France, a 19-year-old who ran a Telegram group called the ‘French Aryan division’ is sentenced to two years in prison after making online threats and was suspected of wanting to target the Olympic torch relay. (AP, 20 July 2024)
21 July: In Vienna, Austria, more than 50 people are detained after far-right identitarians demanding ‘remigration’ clash with counter-protesters at a march. (Euronews, 21 July 2024)
POLICING| PRISONS| CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM
10 July: The CPS drops its case against the executive director of Southall Black Sisters and two other women, launched after an incident at Kings Cross in September 2023, stating there was no ‘realistic prospect of conviction’. The three women say they were the victims of a violent racist attack and criticise an ‘institutionally racist’ and ‘unfair’ legal system. (Guardian, 10 July 2024)
11 July: Home Office data on police use of firearms in England and Wales reveals that there were 17,589 firearms operations in the year ending 31 March 2024 and that 93 per cent involved an armed response vehicle. (Gov.uk, July 2024).
12 July: Following a High Court challenge, the IOPC says it will refer to the CPS the case of Black pensioner Errol Dixon, who suffered a broken nose and other injuries after his car was stopped by police in South London in September 2021. (Independent, 12 July 2024)
13 July: In Germany, a Muslim woman prevented from taking up her elected position as a lay judge because she wears a headscarf takes her case to the constitutional court. A state in North Rhine-Westphalia had previously upheld the ban on the grounds of state neutrality. (Deutsche Welle, 13 July 2024)
12 July: A community protest is held outside Bethnal Green police station in London after a video circulates of the violent arrest of Waseem Yousuf, who was raising money for Palestine at the time of an alleged assault by a police officer. (Counterfire, 13 July 2024)
16 July: The president of the National Black Police Association criticises the Met for using an offensive ‘ace of spades’ emoji on social media in a photograph posted of a Black man being stopped by police officers during heightened police presence in Edmonton, north London. The Met apologises and deletes the post. (Independent, 16 July 2024)
18 July: A 27-year-old Senegalese national, legally resident in France, dies a day after being shot by gendarmerie in Paris. Police claim the shooting was ‘totally proportionate’ and that reinforcements were called after the man pulled a knife and injured a police officer, who was investigating reports of ‘suspicious behaviour’ outside a store on the Champs Elysée. (Daily Sabah, 19 July 2024; Le Monde, 18 July 2024)
18 July: Riot police are deployed to break up a disturbance in Harehills, east Leeds, which started after children from a Roma family were forcibly taken by social services. Gas cannisters are thrown and vehicles set on fire. Police – criticised for disengaging while community representatives fought blazes and restored order – allege the violence was ‘instigated by a criminal minority intent on disrupting community relations.’ (Guardian, 19 July 2024)
19 July: As the home secretary characterises public disorder in Harehills as ‘audacious criminality’, Roma support organisations issue a collective statement condemning violence, accusing children’s services across England of lacking knowledge and cultural competence regarding Roma families, and calling for an urgent meeting with police and Leeds social services. (X, Roma Support Group, 19 July 2024)
19 July: Leeds City Council and the Romanian and Roma community issue a joint statement calling for calm in Harehills, with Leeds City Council stating that it has listened to the views of the Roma community regarding ‘a family matter’ and agree to work in the best interests of the family and the wider Roma community. (Leeds.gov.uk, 19 July 2024)
20 July: According to Release, the latest Prisons and Probation Ombudsman review reveals the deadly reality of releasing people into homelessness. Of 137 post-release deaths, 83 (61 per cent) were caused by drug use. Of the more than half that occurred within 4 days following release, 72 per cent were drug-related deaths. (X, Release Drugs, 20 July 2024)
ASYLUM | MIGRATION| BORDERS| CITIZENSHIP
Asylum and migrant rights
9 July: UN experts warn that the UK risks breaching international law following allegations that children arriving in the UK on ‘small boats’ are being wrongly assessed as adults and placed in adult detention or unsupervised accommodation. (Independent, 9 July 2024)
10 July: Leaked documents reveal that the Swedish government secretly delayed or denied the asylum claims of Turkish dissidents by sending their claims to the Foreign and Defence ministries for vetting to avoid harming relations with the Erdoğan government, which could have obstructed Sweden’s bid for NATO membership (Sweden became a NATO member in March 2024). (Stockholm CF, 10 July 2024)
11 July: ‘Local legend’ and pillar of the Wallasey community in Merseyside, Nelson Shardey, who has been in the UK since 1977 and believed he was British until 2019, wins a legal battle for indefinite leave to remain as the Home Office backs down in the face of overwhelming public support. (GMIAU, 11 July 2024)
15 July: Some asylum seekers granted leave to remain in the UK have subsequently been advised by the Home Office that this is an error and instructed to cut up and return their biometric residence permits and email a photograph of the pieces with proof of postage. (Guardian, 15 July 2024)
15 July: 300 migrants’ rights groups and over 500 individuals sign an open letter to the new government calling for restoration of asylum rights, safe routes and reception in communities. (Guardian, 15 July 2024)
16 July: As care agency Renaissance Personnel is stripped of its sponsor licence, over 100 migrant care workers and their families, many of whom paid up to £20,000 to agents abroad, are threatened with irregular status if they cannot find another sponsor within weeks. (Sky News, 16 July 2024)
17 July: A report by University College London and ECPAT UK finds that of the 440 children who went missing from Home Office hotels between 2021 and 2024, 118 remain unaccounted for, with many likely to have been trafficked. (Guardian, 17 July 2024)
18 July: Migrants’ Rights Network publishes The Home Office is racist by design, a report examining the colonial history of the Home Office and institutionally racist policies. (MRN, 18 July 2024)
20 July: A father with a newborn baby, a mother with two children and two male asylum seekers, whose cases are among over 14,000 claims withdrawn without consent by the Home Office, win a legal challenge at the first-tier tribunal against a Home Office decision to withdraw accommodation and financial support. (Guardian, 20 July 2024)
22 July: A report by the Bevan Foundation shows a 60 per cent reduction since 2018 in legal aid support for asylum seekers and migrants, with immigration legal aid services brought to ‘the point of collapse’. (EIN, 22 July 2024)
Borders and internal controls
9 July: SOS Méditerranée reports that during an operation to rescue 93 people from a wooden boat in the central Mediterranean, armed bandits on rubber dinghies boarded and hijacked the boat, causing migrants to jump into the sea. (Euro News, 10 July 2024)
10 July: The UN responds to reports of a second mass grave on the Libya/Tunisia border, following the discovery in March of 65 bodies in the same region, and says the desert now claims more migrants’ lives than the sea. (InfoMigrants, 10 July 2024)
12 July: Four people die in the Channel when their boat capsizes off the French coast. The French coastguard picks up 63 people. Campaigners call for safe routes and demilitarisation of the border. (Morning Star, 12 July 2024)
12 July: The Finnish parliament passes a law temporarily allowing border guards to return people at the border without giving them a chance to claim asylum, in breach of international refugee law, in a decision defended by the European Commission. (YLE News, 12 July 2024; Al Jazeera, 12 July 2024; EU Observer, 15 July 2024)
15 July: EU border agency Frontex claims that irregular arrivals to the EU have dropped by a third compared with the previous year to 94,000 in the first six months of 2024, with a 61 per cent decrease in arrivals via the central Mediterranean. (Ansa, 15 July 2024)
17 July: The King’s speech introduces a new Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill to ‘strengthen the border and makes streets safer’ by setting up a new Border Security command with enhanced counter-terror powers to stop ‘small boats’ crossing the Channel. (EIN, 17 July 2024)
17 July: Another person dies in the Channel, off the French coast, as 71 people are rescued from an overcrowded dinghy by French and British coastguards. (Guardian, 18 July 2024)
Reception and detention
9 July: A report by HMIP finds ‘truly shocking’ conditions at the Harmondsworth immigration removal centre, where reports show ligature points left undisturbed, a deterioration in welfare support, shocking levels of chaos, detainees at imminent risk of harm and 48 per cent of residents expressing suicidal feelings. (Guardian, 9 July 2024)
9 July: An investigation reveals that the Home Office fails to monitor private asylum accommodation providers Serco, Mears and Clearsprings, which house around 100,000 asylum seekers in often unsavoury conditions under contracts worth at least £4 billion, with Clearsprings director Graham King becoming one of the country’s richest men. (Prospect/ Liberty Investigates, 9 July 2024; Open Democracy, 20 July 2024)
12 July: Kent County Council took in 1,165 lone asylum seeking children in the first six months of 2024, it is reported, compared to 624 in the same period last year. (BBC News, 12 July 2024)
15 July: At least 120 asylum seekers living on the Bibby Stockholm withdraw from meals and stage a peaceful sit-down protest in a compound outside of the barge in protest over delays in processing their claims, overcrowding and difficulties accessing medical care, while local supporters hold a solidarity vigil outside of the port. (Guardian, 15 July 2024)
15 July: After police move to break up an anti-migrant protest camp at a site earmarked for the accommodation of asylum seekers in Coolock, near Dublin, Ireland, protesters set fire to a mechanical digger and other material. Several arrests are made. (Irish Independent, 15 July 2024)
16 July: A report by the British Red Cross calls for improved safeguarding for Ukrainian accommodation schemes as thousands of Ukrainian refugees face homelessness and exploitation following breakdowns in their relationships with host families and difficulties accessing the private housing market. (Guardian, 16 July 2024)
17 July: 15 homeless asylum seekers from Somalia and Palestine flee after assailants, armed with knives and pipes, slash their tents at City Quay, Dublin, Ireland, throwing tents into the River Liffey, with one refugee reportedly losing all of his documentation. The Irish Refugee Council blames government policy, which requires people to sleep rough to be eligible for an offer of accommodation. (RTE, 17 July 2024; Guardian, 17 July 2024)
18 July: In a meeting with European leaders as part of the European Political Community summit, the prime minister says he is open to the offshore processing of asylum applications. (Guardian, 18 July 2024)
19 July: In Ireland, the Garda Public Order Unit is deployed following further public disorder at the disused factory site earmarked for asylum seekers in Coolock, which is set on fire. Batons and pepper spray are used to disperse protesters and three police officers are injured. Earlier in the day, an anti-asylum rally organised by ‘Coolock Says No’ attracts 1,000 people. (Irish Independent, 20 July 2024; Guardian, 19 July 2024)
Deportations
19 July: During a High Court challenge brought by two asylum seekers whose claims had been delayed, it is revealed that the new home secretary, Yvette Cooper, has pledged to process the claims of thousands of asylum seekers who were under threat of deportation to Rwanda under the Migration and Economic Development Partnership. (Guardian, 19 July 2024)
21 July: The home secretary directs immigration enforcement to intensify their operations over the summer, targeting businesses such as car-washes and beauty salons, while drawing up plans to fast-track decisions and deportations. (BBC, 21 July 2024)
EDUCATION
Although we do not cover student protests for Palestine, we do track university administrative measures that deny the right to protest and authorise the use of force, or silence pro-Palestinian voices and display anti-Palestinian bias.
10 July: The High Court grants possession orders to Nottingham and Birmingham universities to clear student encampments protesting about Gaza. Other encampments at Warwick and Oxford also end in the face of legal action. (Guardian, 10 July 2024)
10 July: A High Court judge finds that Birmingham University student Mariyah Ali, who was taken to court over her part in the pro-Palestine campus encampment, has ‘no real prospect’ of successfully showing that the university had discriminated against her or breached its public sector equality duty’. (THE, 10 July 2024)
11 July: A Child Poverty Action Group survey of families affected by the two-child limit reveals that children are missing school because of lack of funds for basics like school shoes, with some forced to give up GCSE subjects like PE due to associated costs. (CPAG, 11 July 2024)
14 July: Bremen in north Germany bans the use of the ‘silent fox’ gesture in classrooms because of its resemblance to the far-right Turkish ‘wolf salute’, already banned in France and Austria. (Guardian, 14 July 2024)
16 July: A review by University English of the GCSE English curriculum concludes that English GCSEs ‘do not effectively engage with students’ identities or student diversity’ and recommends that ‘the literary curriculum be diversified and include global English texts and texts in translation.’ (English Association, 16 July 2024)
16 July 2024: An online petition is launched in support of Professor James Dickins after Leeds University attempts to strip him of his status as Emeritus Professor following a claim that he incited disorder by publishing details of an event at which an ‘Israel lobby group’ was speaking. (Change.org, 16 July 2024)
17 July: The National Organisation of Pupil Referral Units and Alternative Provision (PRUsAP) sends a letter to the Education Secretary raising issues of underfunding, oversubscription and a lack of regulation in the sector. (TES, 17 July 2024)
18 July: Government data from the 2022-23 academic year shows dramatic rises in pupil exclusions and suspensions. Gypsy, Roma and Traveller pupils continue to be most affected, with over a third of Roma pupils suspended last year, while Black students also continue to be disproportionately impacted. The suspension and exclusion rate of Free School Meals (FSM) eligible pupils is almost four and five times, respectively, that of non-FSM eligible pupils. (Guardian, 18 July 2024)
HOUSING| POVERTY| WELFARE
11 July: DWP figures reveal that almost 1.6 million children in 44,000 families (1 in 9 children) are affected by the two-child limit restricting welfare support though Universal Credit, which causes families to miss out on £3,455 a year per child. (CPAG, 11 July 2024)
17 July: In the King’s speech, the government pledges to introduce into the new Renters’ Rights Bill a provision to extend Awaab’s Law to the private rental sector. (Inside Housing, 18 July 2024)
17 July: The English Housing Survey shows that 512,000 households across the social and private rental sectors have experienced homelessness in the past few years. Crisis calls on the government to establish an ‘office for ending homelessness…backed by the prime minister and sitting at the heart of government’. (Inside Housing, 19 July 2024; Inside Housing, 19 July 2024).
20 July: The New Horizon Youth Centre, which supports over a thousand young people in London aged between 16-24 who are homeless or at risk of homelessness, says that 55 per cent of the people approaching them for support are Black, identifying institutional racism and systematic barriers as causal factors. (Independent, 20 July 2024)
EMPLOYMENT| EXPLOITATION| INDUSTRIAL ACTION
14 July: Outsourced migrant cleaners at £24,000-a-year private school James Allen’s Girls’ School in Dulwich, London, have voted unanimously to strike over a 12 per cent pay reduction. Their union, the United Voice of the World, say the reduction was done ‘unlawfully’. (Guardian, 14 July 2024)
14 July: A review of the Nursing and Midwifery Council, which regulates over 800,000 nurses and midwives, found a ‘toxic’ and ‘dysfunctional’ culture and a failure to address widespread allegations of racism and bullying, as a Black nurse alleges victimisation by the regulator after she called out alleged racism. (Independent, 14 July 2024)
15 July: In Verona, northern Italy, 33 Indian farm labourers are freed from ‘slave-like’ working conditions and granted residency rights. They provided manual labour on farms for 10-12 hours a day, seven days a week, for wages as low as four euros per day, which was withheld to pay off debts. (Independent, 15 July 2024)
17 July: Italy’s competition authority launches investigations into outsourcing practices of luxury brands Armani and Dior after prosecutors discover workshops in Milan exploiting workers on low wages and long hours, many of whom are migrants without papers. (Al Jazeera, 17 July 2024)
CULTURE| MEDIA| SPORT
While we cannot cover all incidents of racist abuse on sportspersons or their responses, we provide a summary of the most important incidents. For more information follow Kick it Out.
11 July: Palestinians living abroad accuse Microsoft of closing their email accounts without warning, leaving them unable to access bank accounts or to use Skype, which Microsoft owns, to contact relatives in Gaza. (BBC News, 11 July 2024)
12 July: German football club FSV Main is ordered by a court to pay Dutch striker Anwar El Ghazi €1.7m compensation for unfair dismissal after his was terminated after following his online message of solidarity with Palestinians which included the phrase ‘From the river to the sea’. (Middle East Eye, 12 July 2024)
17 July: The German interior ministry bans Compact, the magazine published by Alternative for Germany, on the grounds that it propagates hatred against Jews and people from migrant backgrounds. The Compact YouTube channel is also taken down. (Deutsche Welle, 17 July 2024)
19 July: Charities supporting Roma communities condemn the virulent racism proliferating on social media following public disorder in Harehills, Leeds, and calls on the media to report responsibly on events in line with best practice. (X, Roma Support Group, 19 July 2024)
Statement from Roma charities, human rights organisations and groups supporting Roma on the incidents in #Leeds pic.twitter.com/dY2afJwtbO
— Roma Support Group (@RomaSupport) July 19, 2024
19 July: Adidas drops Palestinian model Bella Hadid from an advertising campaign after Israeli officials expressed outrage at the choice to use a Palestinian model in a campaign referencing the 1972 Olympics, where 11 Israeli hostages were killed during a standoff between police and the Palestinian Black September group. (Al Jazeera, 19 July 2024)
22 July: Fromer footballer Joey Barton is charged with making malicious communications after he made a series of tweets targeting broadcaster and former footballer Eniola Aluko. (BBC News, 22 July 2024)
RACIAL VIOLENCE AND HARASSMENT
For details of court judgements on racially motivated and other hate crimes, see also POLICING | PRISONS | CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM.
9 July: Meta announces that its current hate speech policy is not wide enough and that Facebook and Instagram will begin to remove posts that target ‘Zionists’ when the term is used to refer to Jewish people and Israelis rather than a political movement and uses antisemitic stereotypes or threatens harm through intimidation or violence. (Guardian, 9 July 2024)
10 July: After legislative elections were called in June, verbal and physical racist attacks have intensified across France. Banking and retail employees are abused because of the colour of their skin and workers are told to ‘prepare to go home’. Interior ministry statistics also record a 32 per cent increase in racist offences in 2023. (Le Monde, 10 July 2024)
11 July: Launching a report based on Jewish people’s perceptions and experiences of antisemitism, the EU Fundamental Rights Agency warns that Jewish communities in the EU face a ‘rising tide of antisemitism’, with the ‘conflict in the Middle East eroding hard-fought-for progress’. (Deutsche Welle, 11 July 2024)
12 July: The Northern Health Trust says that eight African families, four of whom are the families of nurses, were forced to move from the Ballycraigy estate, County Antrim, Ireland, after their homes were targeted in racist attacks. The Ballycraigy estate is associated with Ulster loyalism. (BBC News, 12 July 2024; BBC News, 4 July 2024)
13 July: A 17-year-old boy, charged with multiple offences in relation to an alleged religiously motivated attack on a Gravesend gurdwara on 11 July in which two women were assaulted, is bailed by the court and detained by officers for a mental health assessment. (Guardian 13 July 2024)
18 July: Kumudini Nicola, originally from Sri Lanka, criticises the inaction of police and Darlington Borough Council after a racist campaign, involving dog waste left on her doorstep, vandalism, and thefts from her garden, has left her in constant fear and ‘mentally unwell’. (Eastern Eye, 17 July 2024)
This calendar is researched by IRR staff and compiled by Sophie Chauhan, with the assistance of Graeme Atkinson, Sam Berkson, Margaret McAdam and Louis Ordish. Thanks also to ECRE, the Never Again Association and Stopwatch, whose regular updates on asylum, migration, far Right, racial violence, employment and policing issues are an invaluable source of information. Find these stories and all others since 2014 on our searchable database, the Register of Racism and Resistance.