Register of Racism and Resistance (RRR)

Publisher reviews national IQ research by British ‘race scientist’ Richard Lynn
10 December 24
Leading academic publisher Elsevier reviews its decision to publish research papers by the late professor Richard Lynn, a prominent ‘race science’ proponent accused of systematically distorting data to produce ‘ludicrously bad science’ used in online race science propaganda, following calls from academics and publishers to retract the papers.
Source: Guardian
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Netherlands starts border controls to curb migration
9 December 24
The Netherlands institutes increased border measures on its borders with Belgium and Germany in the form of random checks and mobile controls of vehicles and travellers on international trains.
Source: Deutsche Welle
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UN urges patience as European countries suspend Syrian asylum decisions
9 December 24
The UN High Commissioner for Refugees urges European countries to be ‘patient and vigilant’ as governments including the UK, Germany, Sweden, Denmark and Norway announce a freeze on Syrian asylum decisions in the wake of the Assad regime’s fall. France considers a suspension, while Austria and Greece prepare deportation programmes.
Source: Al Jazeera
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Politicians’ ‘inflammatory language’ part of failure to tackle extremism, UK report finds
9 December 24
A report by former counter-terrorism commissioner Dame Sara Khan finds that inflammatory language and the peddling of conspiracy theories by politicians undermine the tackling of extremism in the UK.
Source: Guardian
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GB News broadcasts half of all UK stories about Muslims, analysis shows
9 December 24
A report from the Centre for Media Monitoring finds that GB News broadcast half of all news stories about Muslims over a two-year period, its ‘negative’ focus, which included disinformation, bordering on an ‘obsession’. Stories on Islam in all media are ‘overwhelmingly negative’, the report finds.
Source: Guardian
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Agency that brought heavily indebted Indonesian workers to UK loses licence
7 December 24
AG Recruitment, once the largest supplier of migrant labour to British farms, has its licence revoked by the Gangmasters and Labour Abuse Authority after revelations that workers it recruited had paid unlicenced brokers in Indonesia up to £5,000 in illegal fees.
Source: Guardian
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Top London academies face mass claims of emotional harm as Whitehall acts on crisis
7 December 24
Hackney’s independent child safeguarding commissioner says that allegations by 140 parents, students and teachers of ‘systemic’ and ‘lasting emotional harm to children’ stretching back two decades at two schools in Hackney run by the Mossbourne Federation, will be investigated. Allegations include teachers being trained in the use of ‘healthy fear’, and unfairly punishing children with special needs and pushing them out to other schools.
Source: Observer
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Janusz Waluś, killer of anti-apartheid leader Chris Hani, deported to Poland from South Africa
7 December 24
Janusz Waluś, who murdered South African Communist Party leader and anti-Apartheid activist Chris Hani, is welcomed by members of Polish neo-Nazi group Bad Company following his deportation from South Africa. Waluś, who became a hero for Polish nationalists while in prison, is accompanied by Grzegorz Braun, a leader of the far-right Confederation party.
Source: Notes From Poland
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Black and Asian cancer patients less likely to survive UK stem cell transplant than white peers
6 December 24
A study of 30,000 patients receiving NHS stem cell transplants finds racialised minorities significantly less likely to survive than white patients, with ‘complex genetic, socioeconomic and systemic factors … intersect[ing] with ethnicity to affect outcomes’ according to the study’s lead researcher.
Source: Guardian
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Home Office trial doubles time refugees have to find home before eviction
6 December 24
A six-month pilot by the Home Office doubles the period of time newly recognised refugees have to find accommodation to 56 days, responding to soaring homelessness among refugees and tenacious campaigning.
Source: Guardian
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Police detain counter-protesters at far-right march
6 December 24
Following clashes between far-right marchers and counter-demonstrators in Helsinki, Finnish police detain around 30 counter-demonstrators. The organisers of the demonstration, Helsinki without Nazis, express their disappointment with the conduct of the police.
Source: YLE
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Crown offers no evidence on racially aggravated public order charge against Black child using the n-word
6 December 24
After being challenged for obtaining information through breach of data protection and privacy laws, the CPS offers no evidence on two racially aggravated public order charges against a vulnerable young Black girl for using Black British English/African American Vernacular English (AAVE) terns ‘N*gga’ and “Cracka’.
Source: Garden Court Chambers
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Traveller communities hold ‘peaceful march’ in Manchester city centre following dispersal order controversy
6 December 24
Following criticism of the use of a dispersal order to police Gypsy Traveller children attempting to attend a Christmas market in November, around 200 people attend a demonstration in Manchester city centre organised by the Gypsy Traveller League
Source: Manchester Evening News
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Counter-protesters shut down far-right reading circle at Helsinki library
6 December 24
In Finland, around 400 counter-protesters shut down a far-right book reading held at the Helsinki library by the Blue-Black movement.
Source: YLE
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Romanian court annuls first round of presidential election
6 December 24
A top Romanian court annuls the first round of Romania’s presidential election after declassified intelligence alleges that Russia coordinated an online campaign to promote the outsider far-right candidate who won.
Source: Guardian
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