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Calendar of Racism and Resistance (15 – 29 August 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  20 August: Freedom of Information data reveals that since

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Calendar of Racism and Resistance (1 – 15 August 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  3 August: A report by the Refugee Council, ‘What

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Calendar of Racism and Resistance (18 July – 1 August 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 July: France’s National Asylum Court rules that Russian deserters

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Audio & Video

Watch: What is Antiracism?

A book launch and conversation with Dr Arun Kundnani, author of What Is Antiracism? And Why It Means Anticapitalism, also featuring Professor Ruth Wilson Gilmore. 13th July 2023 | Brunei Gallery, SOAS University of London | Co-hosted with the Independent Social Research Foundation Why has liberalism been ineffective at combating racism? And what would a

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Calendar of Racism and Resistance (4 – 18 July 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 9 July: Research funded and supervised by the UNESCO

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Fortnightly Bulletin

Reading the riots: From Mark Duggan to Nahel Merzouk

IRR News 20 June – 4 July 2023 It’s impossible to watch the events unfolding in France, in response to the shooting dead of Nahel Merzouk by police following a traffic stop, without remembering 4 August 2011, and the hard stop and police killing of Mark Duggan in Tottenham. It was the police’s disastrous treatment

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Calendar of Racism and Resistance (20 June – 4 July 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 21 June: The Greek asylum authorities are criticized for

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Press Release

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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