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Remapping Europe’s racisms

  The April 2023 issue of Race & Class offers a challenge to how Europe is understood and explores the origins and impacts of civilisational racism. A year on from the start of Russia’s brutal invasion of Ukraine, IRR director Liz Fekete in the April issue of Race & Class takes issue with simplistic and

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Fortnightly Bulletin

Race to the bottom

IRR News 28 March – 11 April 2023 In the context of the forthcoming May local elections, this week’s Calendar of Racism & Resistance lays out in graphic detail the Dutch auction between the Conservatives and Labour on issues of law and order and asylum rights. From the ‘economic migrants’ who must be punished for

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Calendar of Racism and Resistance (28 March – 11 April 2023)

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 29 March: The High Court rules that the ‘immigration

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Fortnightly Bulletin

Challenging cultures of denial

IRR News 14 – 28 March 2023 With the Labour party chomping at the bit for the next general election, it’s time for far greater scrutiny of the Labour party’s polices on race, crime and policing. Sir Keir Starmer, in his Port Vale FC speech of 23 March on ‘fighting the causes of crime’ and ‘boosting

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Calendar of Racism and Resistance (14 – 28 March 2023)

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 15 March: Justice secretary Dominic Raab tells the House

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Press Release

Tell us what you think: Calendar of Racism and Resistance

  In the last few weeks, we’ve had some lovely feedback and enthusiasm about the work the IRR does in producing our Calendar of Racism and Resistance. We are absolutely delighted to learn that people find it such a vital resource for strategising, researching and campaigning. However, we urgently need some further support and feedback

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Fortnightly Bulletin

Governance through spectacle

What’s behind the Illegal Migration Bill? IRR News 2 – 16 March 2023 As the dust settles following the furore over Gary Lineker’s tweet on Suella Braverman’s speech introducing the Illegal Migration Bill, Lineker’s suspension and subsequent reinstatement at a crisis-stricken BBC has let the home secretary off the hook. Lineker criticised Braverman’s rhetoric in

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Calendar of Racism and Resistance (28 February – 14 March 2023)

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 28 February: The House of Lords Justice and Home

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Calendar of Racism and Resistance (14 – 28 February 2023)

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 12 February: The German government announces a temporary easing of

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