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Abolition, internationalism and communities of resistance

  Fifty years ago, the Institute of Race Relations overturned ‘race relations’ orthodoxies and set parameters for a committed anti-racism. Fifty years on, the IRR, with radical scholar activists, examined ‘New Circuits of Anti-Racism’ at a conference gathering. The July 2023 special issue of Race & Class, guest-edited by the IRR’s new Chair John Narayan,

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Fortnightly Bulletin

Refugee Week: celebration and resistance

IRR News 6 – 21 June 2023 As we mark Refugee Week, we applaud all those who have taken to the streets to ensure that criticisms of the EU and Greece for creating the conditions for the worst shipwreck in recent Mediterranean history are not staved off by authorities in Greece who have announced three

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Calendar of Racism and Resistance (6 – 20 June 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 7 June: The Lithuanian Constitutional Court rules unconstitutional the extrajudicial

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Fortnightly Bulletin

Resisting Europe’s necropolitics

IRR News 23 May – 6 June 2023 In a week in which the Prime Minister Rishi Sunak declared that Home Secretary Suella Braverman’s ‘Stop the Boats’ policy is ‘working’, this week’s Calendar of Racism and Resistance shows exactly where a single-minded focus on cutting non-European arrivals leads. From the failure to respond to distress

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Calendar of Racism and Resistance (23 May – 6 June 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 23 May: Ahead of releasing statistics showing a large rise

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Fortnightly Bulletin

NatCon and the British war on woke: what you need to know

IRR News 11 – 25 May 2023 The American hard Right are coming to the UK – and Europe. But, unlike in Hungary, where the gathering of Europe’s extreme-right figures (including the prime ministers of Hungary and Georgia) was an offshoot of the Trump and Bolsonaro supporting US Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), the National

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Calendar of Racism and Resistance (9 – 23 May 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 16 May: A leaked letter reveals that the Home Office

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Fortnightly Bulletin

Illegal Migration Bill, no protection, no rights

IRR News 13 – 27 April 2023 In the week since the Illegal Migration Bill was passed by the House of Commons, our regular calendar of racism and resistance demonstrates how a deterrent mindset towards refugees works in practice.  For refugees from the civil war in  Sudan, it starts with the home secretary’s cack-handed attempt

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Calendar of Racism and Resistance (25 April – 9 May 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 26 April: As the government rules out introducing a

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