24 Oct – 7 November 2023 This week, after the home secretary claimed that those demonstrating in support of a ceasefire in Gaza were participating in ‘hate marches’, and the prime minister declared that during a forthcoming national rally in Armistice weekend, any ‘desecration’ of the Cenotaph would be an ‘affront to British values’, the
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 October: Asylum Aid, on behalf of a Cote d’Ivorian
ELECTORAL POLITICS | GOVERNMENT POLICY 25 October: The South Wales Islamic Centre issues a statement accusing the leader of the Labour party of using social media to ‘gravely’ misrepresent a meeting with Muslim leaders in Wales where the situation in Palestine was discussed; they apologise for the ‘hurt and confusion’ caused by hosting Starmer. (Guardian, 25
10 – 24 October 2023 Racism, in essence, involves dehumanisation, the attaching of less value to certain lives. And it can also involve criminalisation, for example by turning one group into a suspect community needing control and harsher punishment. What we have witnessed here since 7 October is a transformation of a knee-jerk anti-Palestinianism into
ASYLUM | MIGRATION | BORDERS | CITIZENSHIP Asylum and migrant rights 23 October: A coalition of charities and groups hopes to urge the UK government to introduce a package of emergency measures, including a family reunion scheme for Palestinians in Gaza and a medical evacuation programme for people in need of specialist care. (Guardian, 23 October 2023) Deportation
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 10 October: Many Afghans eligible for sanctuary in the UK
22 September – 10 October 2023 Home Secretary Suella Braverman’s speech at the Conservative Party Conference last week has been widely criticised for decrying a ‘hurricane of mass immigration’, calling the Human Rights Act the ‘Criminal Rights Act’, demonising minorities and railing against so-called ‘gender ideology’. See our Calendar of Racism and Resistance for further
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 29 September: Germany, Poland and the Czech Republic establish
Teacher and poet Sam Berkson reviews Chris Searle’s The World is in our Words (Nottingham: Five Leaves Publications, 2022), an autobiography that incorporates the words and visions of many, whilst telling the story of Searle’s teaching, writing and anti-racist mobilisations as a schoolteacher in Sheffield, where he established one of the first non-exclusion policies.
The October 2023 issue of Race & Class provides a cutting-edge analysis of the British ‘War on Woke’, as well as the role of ethnic minorities in the Conservative party. What does the ambiguous, catch-all term ‘woke’ actually mean, and how has it become central to the UK’s political discourse today? Now in print in
