Dear IRR News subscriber, Dangerous ‘race’ thinking is on the rise, warns black health activist Wayne Farah, in a think-piece for IRR News this week, that warns that the New Right and the ‘race realists’ are attempting to use public inquiries into Covid-19 excess deaths as a battlefield for the normalisation of scientific and cultural racism. Whether
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Calendar of Racism and Resistance – Incorporating Covid-19 Roundup (6 – 20 May 2020)
A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. We have incorporated the Covid-19 roundup of racism, health, policing and civil liberties into the calendar of racism and resistance, which we believe makes developments during this period clearer and easier to understand. HEALTH AND POLICY RACE AND CLASS
New Right, old racism – the battlefield of Covid-19
As Public Health England conducts its controversial rapid review into Covid-19 disparities, lurking in the background is a new school of ‘race realists’ whose retrogressive biological arguments must be tackled head-on. An intellectual current that can be broadly defined as New Right – comprising a number of thinktanks, politicians, journalists, academics and libertarians of various
Adnan Olbeh: killed by the state
The death of Adnan Olbeh on 5 May in a Glasgow ‘asylum’ hotel raises serious questions as to what is happening to former immigration detainees during the lockdown. John Grayson of South Yorkshire Migration & Asylum Action Group continues his investigations. Ivor, a professional worker from the Middle East, was already reporting on conditions in
IRR News (22 April – 6 May 2020)
Dear IRR News subscriber, As mutual-aid groups continue to work tirelessly across the country to meet urgent needs neglected or engendered by the state, we publish an Editor’s collection of Race & Class articles published over the last thirty years on the black tradition of self-help and mutual aid, free to download from tomorrow. Ranging
Calendar of Racism and Resistance – incorporating Covid-19 Roundup (22 April – 6 May 2020)
A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. We have incorporated the Covid-19 roundup of racism, health, policing and civil liberties into the calendar of racism and resistance, which we believe makes developments during this period clearer and easier to understand. INTERNATIONAL 22 April: According to the
We starved but we shared
A free to download selection of Race & Class articles, compiled by Deputy Editor Sophia Siddiqui, by or about community activists on the black tradition of self-help and mutual aid which enunciates some of the principles now making a come-back as people reclaim self-reliance during the pandemic. What the Covid-19 pandemic has put into sharp focus
Beyond English Borders: asylum hostels and asylum hotels in a time of Covid-19
John Grayson of South Yorkshire Migration & Asylum Action Group continues his exposés of conditions in Scotland, Ireland and other countries of Europe for asylum seekers in supposedly safe accommodation. Scotland: the Mears group and its £500m asylum housing contract In Scotland, as in the rest of the UK, the Home Office provision of asylum housing
Black educational organisation warns that Ofqual grading consultation is deeply flawed
Ofqual has conducted an online public consultation on the impact of Covid-19 grading of GCSE and A-Level results. We reprint below an edited version of a press statement issued by Black Learning Achievement and Mental Health UK (BLAM), an educational and advocacy not-for-profit [1] In late March, the Secretary of State for Education announced that the
IRR News (8 – 22 April 2020)
Dear IRR News subscriber, The pandemic – and governments’ responses – may have changed the world as we know it, but it is also revealing what is already there – the inequality and structural racism that underpins society. On this week’s IRR News, Wayne Farah, who has had twenty years’ experience working with NHS Trusts,