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Fortnightly Bulletin

Shawcross, Knowsley and Policing Britishness

IRR News 2 – 16 February 2023 Just two days after William Shawcross, reviewer of the government’s Prevent Programme, criticised its ‘expansive approach’ towards the ‘extreme right’, it was supporters of the far Right, some armed with hammers, that orchestrated a riot, hurling lit fireworks at the Suites Hotel, Knowsley, Merseyside, which housed asylum seekers

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Comment

Britannia Enchained: Policing racialised communities

  As abolitionist ideas spread through communities and movements at the sharp end of policing, the police state is already here in neighbourhoods housing Black and Muslim communities in particular – working-class or inner-city areas: massive and increasingly violent policing on the streets, with Violence Suppression Units working ‘microbeats’ where ‘gangs, drugs and violence have

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Press Release

Britannia Enchained

  As the economy unravels, we are seeing an increasingly aggressive government squaring up to an expanding list of enemies, heedless of legal and moral restraints and of the impact on country and people, argues Frances Webber. ‘Move fast and break things’ used to be the mantra of tech whizz-kid entrepreneurs. It seems to have

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Fortnightly Bulletin

Ratcheting up the hostile environment

IRR News 17 – 31 January 2023 This week, tough new rules came into force under the Nationality and Borders Act, potentially denying ‘foreign criminals’ sentenced to over 12 months access to modern slavery protections. At the same time, amendments made to the online safety bill will, if passed, lead to the criminalisation of social

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News

Calendar of Racism and Resistance (17 – 31 January 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 17 January: The OSCE Office of the Special Representative

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Calendar of Racism and Resistance (3 – 17 January 2022)

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 6 January: EU data protection supervisor Wojciech  Wiewiórowski warns that

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Fortnightly Bulletin

Breaking the ‘colour bar’: Len Johnson & Pearl Prescod

IRR News 5 – 19 January 2023 Not only has PC David Carrick pleaded guilty to 49 charges, including 24 counts of rape against 12 women over an 18-year period, but FOI requests have revealed that more than 150 Met police officers are currently on restricted duties and under investigation over allegations of racism and

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Fortnightly Bulletin

The IRR50 year wrap-up

IRR News 6 – 22 December 2022 Dear IRRNews Subscriber, This is the last edition of IRR News for the year – and what a year it has been! 2022 marked 50 years since our radical transformation from an establishment body into an anti-racist think-tank. We’ve been incredibly busy, producing articles on policing in schools,

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