A seminal radical black feminist text, first published in 1985, which tells the story of black women’s experiences in Britain, has now been republished by Verso, at a time when we need it more than ever. Born out of anti-colonial, feminist politics and black solidarity, young generations of activists have much to learn from The
Dear IRR News subscriber, What will it take for a generation of European politicians to wake up to the fascist threat? This week on IRR News, Liz Fekete laments the situation in Chemnitz in the east German state of Saxony, where police all but lost control of the streets to a fascist mob for two
German anti-fascists are asking for support and international protest around events in Chemnitz. On 27/28 August, in scenes reminiscent of the 1991 pogroms in Rostock and Hoyerswerda, police in the east German state of Saxony all but lost control of the streets to the far Right in the former industrial city of Chemnitz, once a
An appeal from German anti-fascists, received via Apaziz ‘We are more’ – and we need your help to prevent more racist mobilizations and violence and Chemnitz and elsewhere in Saxony. Chemnitz and Saxony is not only home to the largest militant and organised neo-Nazi and racist movement in Germany, it is also home to an
A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. Asylum and migration August: Frontex publishes its risk assessment of the west Balkans route taken by refugees, download Western Balkans annual risk assessment 2018 here. 15 August: London mayor Sadiq Khan and the victims’ commissioner call on the
Dear IRR News subscriber, From Copenhagen to Malmö, from Tottenham to Molenbeek, Europe’s multi-racial neighbourhoods are stigmatised by journalists as ‘parallel societies’ and ‘gang controlled’. But the Daily Mail met its match in French campaigner Marwan Mohammad who, in a series of hilarious tweets which we republish, took apart the lies, factual mistakes and other inaccuracies in
A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. Asylum and migration 18 July: Liverpool City Council passes a cross-party motion calling on the government to end the indefinite detention of asylum seekers, saying the system is ‘inhumane’ and ‘not fit for purpose’. (These Walls Must Fall,
The government intends to make future ‘Windrush’ scandals impossible to uncover with the sweeping immigration exemption from new data protection obligations. Can campaigners and lawyers prevent the cover-ups? We are all data subjects now. The new data protection legislation which entered into force on 25 May gives us all rights – to see what data
A French Muslim activist gives the Daily Mail a lesson on how to avoid racial and religious stereotyping. French activist Marwan Muhammad was so incensed by a Daily Mail article that linked ‘immigration on a mammoth scale’ to drug dealing, crime and poverty in the French neighbourhood of Saint-Denis, in northern Paris, that he sent a
Dear IRR News subscriber, The lethal consequences of ‘hostile environment’ policies continue to be revealed in our regular calendar of racism and resistance. On 20 June, as Harmit Athwal reports, 23-year-old Mustafa Dawood was found dead after falling from a building in Newport, Wales, as immigration officers carried out a raid at a car wash.
