IRR News 23 May – 6 June 2023 In a week in which the Prime Minister Rishi Sunak declared that Home Secretary Suella Braverman’s ‘Stop the Boats’ policy is ‘working’, this week’s Calendar of Racism and Resistance shows exactly where a single-minded focus on cutting non-European arrivals leads. From the failure to respond to distress
A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. Find these stories and all others since 2014 on our searchable database, the Register of Racism and Resistance. ASYLUM | MIGRATION | BORDERS | CITIZENSHIP Asylum and migrant rights 23 May: Ahead of releasing statistics showing a large rise
IRR News 11 – 25 May 2023 The American hard Right are coming to the UK – and Europe. But, unlike in Hungary, where the gathering of Europe’s extreme-right figures (including the prime ministers of Hungary and Georgia) was an offshoot of the Trump and Bolsonaro supporting US Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), the National
A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. Find these stories and all others since 2014 on our searchable database, the Register of Racism and Resistance. ASYLUM | MIGRATION | BORDERS | CITIZENSHIP Asylum and migrant rights 16 May: A leaked letter reveals that the Home Office
IRR News 13 – 27 April 2023 In the week since the Illegal Migration Bill was passed by the House of Commons, our regular calendar of racism and resistance demonstrates how a deterrent mindset towards refugees works in practice. For refugees from the civil war in Sudan, it starts with the home secretary’s cack-handed attempt
A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. Find these stories and all others since 2014 on our searchable database, the Register of Racism and Resistance. ASYLUM | MIGRATION | BORDERS | CITIZENSHIP Asylum and migrant rights 26 April: As the government rules out introducing a
Last year marked the 50th anniversary of the radical transformation of the IRR. To celebrate our history, past, present and future we created a series of events, projects and activities as part of IRR50. The IRR was proud to present New Circuits of Anti-racism – an IRR50 conference on racism, imperialism and new lines of
IRR News 13 – 27 April 2023 It’s time to face facts: the mainstream political discourse on race and anti-racism generates more heat than light. In fact, it is thoroughly divisive. Unless we break with its underlying punitive logic, we risk the total erasure of the UK’s proud anti-racist tradition – a collective fight against
A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. Find these stories and all others since 2014 on our searchable database, the Register of Racism and Resistance. ASYLUM | MIGRATION | BORDERS | CITIZENSHIP Asylum and migrant rights 11 April: Following several protests 20 asylum seekers begin
Twenty-four years separates them, but both the Macpherson report and the Casey report identified ‘poor service provision’ as at the heart of institutional racism in policing. Writing from an abolitionist perspective, criminologists Sarah Lamble and Megan McElhone argue that getting to grips with contemporary police racism demands a more expansive approach. The recent finding in
