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 March: The High Court rules that the ‘immigration
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IRR News 14 – 28 March 2023 With the Labour party chomping at the bit for the next general election, it’s time for far greater scrutiny of the Labour party’s polices on race, crime and policing. Sir Keir Starmer, in his Port Vale FC speech of 23 March on ‘fighting the causes of crime’ and ‘boosting
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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 15 March: Justice secretary Dominic Raab tells the House
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We unpick Sir Keir Starmer’s ‘fighting crime is a Labour cause’ speech of 23 March and link his failure to use the term ‘institutional racism’ with the Met Commissioner’s disavowal of the term to the London Assembly Police and Crime Committee the day before. Given the long history in the UK of racialised cannabis
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In the last few weeks, we’ve had some lovely feedback and enthusiasm about the work the IRR does in producing our Calendar of Racism and Resistance. We are absolutely delighted to learn that people find it such a vital resource for strategising, researching and campaigning. However, we urgently need some further support and feedback
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What’s behind the Illegal Migration Bill? IRR News 2 – 16 March 2023 As the dust settles following the furore over Gary Lineker’s tweet on Suella Braverman’s speech introducing the Illegal Migration Bill, Lineker’s suspension and subsequent reinstatement at a crisis-stricken BBC has let the home secretary off the hook. Lineker criticised Braverman’s rhetoric in
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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 28 February: The House of Lords Justice and Home
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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 12 February: The German government announces a temporary easing of
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IRR News 17 February – 2 March 2023 Since our last newsletter in which we reported on the eruption of violence in Knowsley, Merseyside, we have seen the spreading of a relentless campaign targeting hotels accommodating asylum seekers across England, with protests in Rotherham, Skegness, Newquay, Long Eaton and Dunstable in the past weeks. All
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Sophia Siddiqui investigates what is underpinning the violent targeting of accommodation housing asylum seekers in Ireland and across the UK and how feminists, anti-racists, migrant solidarity and trade union groups are fighting back to resist the weaponising of gender-based violence. The eruption of violence in Knowsley, Merseyside – where supporters of the far Right
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