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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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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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Calendar of Racism and Resistance (6 – 20 December 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 December: It is revealed that Home Office delays

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Press Release

The Sivanandan website

  The IRR is delighted to release a new online archive of A. Sivanandan’s writings, speeches, essays, aphorisms and reviews, spanning six decades. The archive section of the website features a catalogued bibliography of Siva’s works, from the 1960s through to the 2010s. It contains seminal essays such as RAT and the degradation of black

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Comment

International students: pawns in the migration game

  While plans to restrict the entry of international students and their dependants appear to be another gesture to appease the Right, their treatment as a rightless cohort has a longer history. Nepali student Sulav Khadka was interrogated and detained on arrival in the UK to take up his scholarship at York university in October.

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