Dear IRR News subscriber, As the Tory party develops its plans, post EU-referendum, to strengthen border controls and dismantle the rights of migrants, the IRR’s journal Race & Class examines the broader implications in two timely pieces. Liz Fekete’s analysis, to be published in January 2017, of the interplay between nationalism and neoliberal forces across
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Calendar of racism and resistance (30 September – 13 October 2016)
A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. Asylum & migration 1 October: Plans for a replacement Dungavel detention centre are revealed, to be sited near Glasgow Airport on an industrial estate, with a 12-foot fence. (The National, 1 October 2016) 1 October: Charities working at
German development aid and the politics of pre-emption
Below we reproduce excerpts from anti-fascist activist Joschka Fröschner’s October 2016 Race & Class article ‘German development aid and the politics of pre-emption’. Forty years ago, development aid programmes in the ‘Third World’, if colonial in thrust and often imperial in economic purpose, were at least usually recognisably different from war, conflict and internal repression. And
Witness against torture
The October 2016 of Race & Class leads with two very timely and politically-provoking articles on the international impact of securitisation. Chandra Russo (of Colgate University, US) explores, through the protests of the group Witness Against Torture, how solidarity with those detained at Guantánamo has been maintained on US streets and how the plight of detainees
IRR News (16 – 29 September 2016)
Dear IRR News subscriber, This week on IRR News, two articles examine aspects of Theresa May’s policies and ideas, from policing and grammar schools to immigration and asylum. Liz Fekete analyses May’s ‘one-nation’ declarations, the concerns she has expressed over BAME over-representation in stop and search and criminal statistics and her Inequality Audit – all
Calendar of racism and resistance (16-29 September 2016)
A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. Asylum and migration 15 September: Corporate Watch publishes: UK Detention Centres Factsheet (September 2016), view here or download here (pdf file, 108kb). 15 September: The Ministry of Justice announces increases of up to 500 per cent in court
Theresa May: one nation-ist or nativist?
Theresa May’s ‘one-nation’ policies are incoherent and divisive. Theresa May came to office declaring that she would lead a ‘one nation government’ and promising to ‘make Britain a country that works for everyone’. In holding out her progressive politics on ‘race’, May suggests a willingness to investigate claims that the police spied on the Stephen
What can we expect on immigration and asylum policy post-referendum?
The round-ups for deportation of elderly people with generations of family in the UK indicate the ruthlessness we can expect from a government all too ready to ‘take back control’. The first deportation charter flight to Jamaica for nearly two years took place on 7 September, carrying forty-two passengers.[1] Most of those rounded up for
IRR News (2 – 15 September 2016)
Dear IRR News subscriber, Two racist attacks were widely-reported this week – one which took place in August and resulted in a Muslim woman in Milton Keynes losing her unborn twins and the other, more recently, leading to the hospitalisation of a Polish man in Leeds. Both these attacks say something about the serious nature of
Calendar of racism and resistance (2 – 15 September 2016)
A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. Violence and harassment 24 August: Self-defence classes for Muslims and others from BAME communities in Swansea are launched, following concerns about racist violence in the locality. (BBC News, 24 August 2016) 1 September: A man who racially abuses