9 – 24 January 2024 This week, as reported in the Guardian, we have published a ground-breaking research article in Race & Class, co-authored by APPEAL’s Nisha Waller and Naima Sakande, on Majority Jury Verdicts in England & Wales: A Vestige of White Supremacy? The article lays bare for the first time how anxieties around a potential detrimental impact
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 11 January: Nadia El-Nakla, the wife of Scotland’s first minister and
19th December 2023 – 9th January 2024 Over the last weeks, campaigners in the UK have targeted arms manufacturers, companies, banks and universities that are complicit in the violation of rights of Palestinians living under occupation. They have also protested against the Economic Activity of Public Bodies (Overseas Matters) Bill (otherwise known as the anti-boycott
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 19 December: The Greek Parliament passes a bill to allow undocumented
5 – 19 December 2023 This week we remember Siva (A. Sivanandan) on what would be his hundredth ‘year to heaven’. To mark his centenary, we publish three aphorisms from his 1971 diary, including a cutting critique of the (then) academic fad of ‘participant observation’ whereby sociologists would hang out with (while studying) the oppressed,
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 7 December: Following the signing of the new agreement with Rwanda,
To commemorate what would have been A. Sivanandan’s 100th birthday, the IRR are publishing three aphorisms recently found in his 1971 diary.
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 23 November: The European Court of Justice (ECJ) rules that member
French Below Joint statement, 24 November 2023 Commemoration of the 24 November 2021 shipwreck Two years after the shipwreck of 24 November 2021, as injustice and deaths at the border continue, we stand together to call for a world free from border violence. On 24 November 2021, at least 33 people in a dinghy tried
7 – 21 November 2023 The role of an objective press should be to present the facts and inform the public about what is happening in the world. But the mainstream media, wanting to set the 24-hour news agenda and shape public opinion, have long since jettisoned such an approach. Over the last few weeks,
