The Institute of Race Relations – a radical voice against racism for over forty years – draws attention to its varied resources that give context and specificities to the declaration of Black Lives Matter that, ‘It Happens Here Too.’ Resources on policing and deaths in custody In UK and the US The IRR was the
An update on BAME, refugee and migrant deaths in custody since September 2014. To answer demands from supporters of the Black Lives Matter movement in the UK for up-to-date statistics on deaths in custody in the UK, the IRR has been trying to collect information on deaths which have taken place since its last reckoning
The Black Lives Matter movement has provoked many revelations and discussions of institutional racism in various fields, not only criminal justice but also education, sport, media and culture; we cover a selection of these below. Our regular calendar of racism and resistance can be viewed here. PROTESTS AND POLICE RESPONSE See also anti-fascism and far
Join us and Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung Brussels for a free webinar launching Hilary Moore’s forthcoming publication on climate change and the racist Right. 12 May, 18:00 BST via Zoom. Register Now> The Institute for Race Relations is co-sponsoring this event with Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung Brussels, Political Research Associates, Movement Generation, and Ende Gelände. What do climate justice activists and organisers need to know
A free to download selection of Race & Class articles, compiled by Deputy Editor Sophia Siddiqui, by or about community activists on the black tradition of self-help and mutual aid which enunciates some of the principles now making a come-back as people reclaim self-reliance during the pandemic. What the Covid-19 pandemic has put into sharp focus
John Grayson of South Yorkshire Migration & Asylum Action Group continues his exposés of conditions in Scotland, Ireland and other countries of Europe for asylum seekers in supposedly safe accommodation. Scotland: the Mears group and its £500m asylum housing contract In Scotland, as in the rest of the UK, the Home Office provision of asylum housing
Ofqual has conducted an online public consultation on the impact of Covid-19 grading of GCSE and A-Level results. We reprint below an edited version of a press statement issued by Black Learning Achievement and Mental Health UK (BLAM), an educational and advocacy not-for-profit [1] In late March, the Secretary of State for Education announced that the
A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. We have incorporated the Covid-19 roundup of racism, health, policing and civil liberties into the calendar of racism and resistance, which we believe makes developments during this period clearer and easier to understand. HEALTH AND POLICY 10 April: As
In this wide-ranging and disturbing interview, Suresh Grover and Dorothea Jones[1] describe how a combination of Covid-19-linked racism, the ‘Blame China’ narrative and lockdown social distancing measures, are impacting on the caseload of The Monitoring Group; and reflect on the weak responses from the multiple agencies that should be assisting. Liz Fekete: The Guardian has
The pandemic is revealing the ways in which global health outcomes are shaped by race, class and indigeneity. As the pandemic spreads to every region of the world, and threatens Indigenous Peoples [1] who are now developing their own ‘self-determined protection mechanisms’[2] early signs suggest that the global war on Covid-19 is morphing into a war on
