Register of Racism and Resistance (RRR)

MP Bob Stewart to stand down after racial abuse conviction
19 November 23
Tory MP Bob Stewart stands down after being found guilty of a racially aggravated public order offence during a row with a Bahraini activist.
Source: Guardian
Category: ELECTORAL POLITICS | GOVERNMENT POLICY
Country: UK
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Braverman demands Sunak ‘legislate or admit defeat’ after Rwanda ruling
15 November 23
Suella Braverman says the prime minister’s proposals on Rwanda are ‘magical thinking’ and joins Conservative MPs demanding legislation which overrides human rights laws, as opposition members and peers vow to block emergency legislation.
Source: Guardian
Category: ELECTORAL POLITICS | GOVERNMENT POLICY
Country: UK
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Braverman plots Tory rebellion on Rwanda plan after stinging attack on PM
14 November 23
Sacked home secretary Suella Braverman accuses the prime minister of betrayal over ‘key policy priorities’ she claimed he had agreed to in exchange for her support in his leadership campaign, including reducing migration, disapplying human rights law to ‘stop the boats’ and issuing statutory guidance to schools to protect biological sex.
Source: Guardian
Category: ELECTORAL POLITICS | GOVERNMENT POLICY
Country: UK
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Rishi Sunak has appointed a ‘minister for woke’ and it hasn’t gone down well
14 November 23
The government appoints Esther McVey, MP for Tatton, as a minister without portfolio tasked with leading the government’s ‘anti-woke agenda’ and campaigning on ‘culture war issues’.
Source: Left foot forward
Category: ELECTORAL POLITICS | GOVERNMENT POLICY
Country: UK
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Hungarian plan to target foreign influence fuels NGO and media fears
13 November 23
 Hungarian  rights campaigners fear that a prospective bill from Fidesz will create a new offence of threatening Hungary’s sovereignty. They warn that the new legislation could extend to political parties, media outlets and civil society organisations accused of operating under the influence of Washington and/or Brussels.
Source: Guardian
Category: ELECTORAL POLITICS | GOVERNMENT POLICY
Country: Hungary
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Government Claims it ‘Takes Seriously Its Constitutional Role and Responsibility’
10 November 23
The United Kingdom Constitution Monitoring Group, which comprises leading constitutional experts, says there is evidence that some UK politicians desire to wholly bypass democracy, citing the Illegal Migration Bill, the introduction of mandatory voter ID, and breaches of the ministerial code.
Source: Byline Times
Category: ELECTORAL POLITICS | GOVERNMENT POLICY
Country: UK
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Spain’s far-right Vox wants to freeze residence permits for people from ‘Islamic culture’
6 November 23
The far-right Vox party tables a parliamentary motion to suspend the granting of Spanish nationality and residence permits to people from ‘Islamic culture’.
Source: Euronews
Category: ELECTORAL POLITICS | GOVERNMENT POLICY
Country: Spain
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Statement: We Will Be Marching on November 11 – Our Statement in Response to the Met Police
6 November 23
: The Black Protest Legal Support Group launches a petition to defend the right to protest (Free Palestine Protests), as Stop the War issues a statement criticising the Metropolitan police for its public statement asking for the march to be postponed because of the ‘sensitivity of the weekend’. BPLSG says the characterisation of Free Palestine demonstrations as ‘hate marches’ is appalling, and criticises TfL for planning a significantly reduced service on the London Underground on the day of the demo.
Source: Stop the War Coalition
Category: ELECTORAL POLITICS | GOVERNMENT POLICY
Country: UK
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MP Bob Stewart to surrender Tory whip after racial abuse conviction
4 November 23
: MP Bob Stewart surrenders the Tory whip while he appeals a guilty verdict for racially abusing an exiled activist from Bahrain outside the Foreign Office.
Source: Guardian
Category: ELECTORAL POLITICS | GOVERNMENT POLICY
Country: UK
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Rishi Sunak wants Remembrance Day protest banned
4 November 23
: Amidst media claims that the prime minister wants a large pro-Palestinian march on Armistice Day banned, Rishi Sunak says that such a march would be ‘provocative’ and ‘disrespectful’ and warns of the risk of the Cenotaph and other war memorials being desecrated, which ‘would be an affront to British values’.
Source: Daily Express
Category: ELECTORAL POLITICS | GOVERNMENT POLICY
Country: UK
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Poland’s first ever resolution declaring area “free from LGBT ideology” withdrawn
2 November 23
: Amid threats that it could lose EU funding, Świdnik county local authority, the first in Poland to adopt a resolution declaring itself ‘free from LGBT ideology’, withdraws the measure. Only 15 of the 105 such measures initially introduced in 2019 and 2020 remain in force.
Source: Notes from Poland
Category: ELECTORAL POLITICS | GOVERNMENT POLICY
Country: Poland
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Labour MP Andy McDonald suspended over ‘between the river and the sea’ speech
30 October 23
: Andy Mcdonald MP is suspended from the Labour party after he said at a rally ‘We won’t rest until we have justice, until all people, Israelis and Palestinians, between the river and the sea can live in peaceful liberty’.
Source: Independent
Category: ELECTORAL POLITICS | GOVERNMENT POLICY
Country: UK
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Suella Braverman calls pro-Palestine demos ‘hate marches’
30 October 23
: Speaking after a Cobra meeting to consider if Iran or other groups could be stepping up activities in the UK, home secretary Suella Braverman describes demonstrators marching in support of a ceasefire in Gaza as involved in ‘hate marches’. She considers the chant ‘From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free’ a call for the erasure of Israel and urges the police to take action – something the police and human rights lawyers say needs a change in the law.
Source: Guardian
Category: ELECTORAL POLITICS | GOVERNMENT POLICY
Country: UK
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Starmer ‘gravely misrepresented’ meeting, say Muslim leaders in Wales
25 October 23
: 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.
Source: Guardian
Category: ELECTORAL POLITICS | GOVERNMENT POLICY
Country: UK
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German firebrand politician quits far-left Die Linke to set up her own party
23 October 23
  Sahra Wagenknecht, one leader of the  German  party Die Linke, leaves the party because of its pro-environmental and pro-migration positions to set up one of her own. 
Source: Guardian
Category: ELECTORAL POLITICS | GOVERNMENT POLICY
Country: Germany
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