In a double-length lead article of the July issue of Race & Class, IRR director Liz Fekete warns of a deepening ‘culture of extremism’ amongst police officers across Europe, highlighting numerous cases of racist and misogynistic attitudes and far right entryism amongst police officers. In Racism, Radicalisation and Europe’s ‘Thin Blue Line’,
The plan to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda, described by the African Union as ‘xenophobic and completely unacceptable’, is just the latest and most extreme policy to feature in a long and worsening tale of cruelty unleashed by successive British governments on refugees, writes Tim Naor Hilton of Refugee Action. It’s a story that started
IRR News 24 June – 7 July 2022 With official accounts listing at least 27 wars currently raging across the world, including notably the first war in Europe since the Balkan Wars of the early 1990s, we must not forget that these wars have also spawned another overarching global war – namely the ‘war on
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 26 June: In Scotland, an independent inquiry into
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: Despite twenty-six prosecution witnesses failing to
IRR News 10 – 23 June 2022 The IRR is thrilled to launch this week a new Black history project on the life of Caribbean-British actor, singer and civil rights campaigner Pearl Prescod. Pearl Prescod: a Black life lived large, featured in today’s guardian online, records the achievements of the first Black female player at
A new Black history project on the life of the Caribbean-British actor, singer and civil rights campaigner Pearl Prescod tells the largely overlooked story of a generation of anti-colonial artists and activists who questioned Britain’s role in the decades following World War Two. This biographical pamphlet produced by the Institute
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 26 May: Home Office data shows that 75
IRR News 27 May – 9 June 2022 Later this month, a ground-breaking documentary film sharing the stories of nurses, midwives and healthcare workers and their experiences of racism before, during and after the pandemic, will premiere in London and Sheffield. Part of a research project from Nursing Narratives, Sheffield Hallam University and Migrant Media,
Ahead of the London Premiere of EXPOSED – a ground-breaking documentary film that shares the stories of nurses, midwives and healthcare workers collected during a research project about the experiences of racism before, during and after the pandemic – Anandi Ramamurthy writes on the key findings of Nursing Narratives. ‘We are not a
