“‘It’s about survival now’: Migrants’ rights to healthcare in the UK during the pandemic.“ Read the evidence submitted to the Permanent Peoples Tribunal Berlin hearing October 23-25 2020. A joint submission from the PPT London steering group and the Institute of Race Relations. The report can be read HERE
Calendar of Racism and Resistance (23 June – 7 July 2026)
ELECTORAL POLITICS| GOVERNMENT POLICY 26 June: The government rejects a claim by senior Trump official Sarah B. Rogers at an international Alliance for Responsible Citizenship conference in London that British police are making thousands of ‘freedom of speech’ arrests, citing the case of Henry Nowak and using a meme associated with the far Right, ‘Da
Racial violence – a national emergency
9 – 23 June 2026 Over the past two weeks, we have increased our press monitoring of far-right intimidation and racist violence. Last week, we published a ‘Dossier on a Pogrom in Northern Ireland’, which highlighted community concerns about the police response to the pogrom as well as the role that some Loyalist paramilitaries may
Calendar of Racism and Resistance (9 – 23 June 2026)
ELECTORAL POLITICS| GOVERNMENT POLICY We do not have capacity to cover all stories related to criticism of social media posts by political candidates. 9 June: In a speech at the Institute for Government, strongly criticised by the Traveller Movement and the APPG for Gypsies, Travellers and Roma, Conservative party leader Kemi Badenoch pledges to abolish
Dossier of a pogrom in Northern Ireland ( 9 – 16 June 2026)
These entries are documented from our press monitoring of the racist pogrom that unfolded in Northern Ireland following the stabbing of Stephen Ogilvie by Hadi Alodid. It only follows the dates between 9 – 16 June 2026 and is not a complete account of events. ELECTORAL POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT POLICY For more information on
Henry Nowak murder – let the facts speak for themselves
26 May – 9 June 2026 If only we lived in a country where facts were allowed to speak for themselves ‒ where the path to justice was not littered with the untruths of GB News and the distortions of politicians, desperate to plant the false narrative of anti-white ‘two-tier policing’. As everyone knows by
Calendar of Racism and Resistance ( 26 May – 9 June 2026)
ELECTORAL POLITICS| GOVERNMENT POLICY As anti-migrant, anti-equalities, anti-abortion, misogynistic and anti-LGBTQI rhetoric in electoral campaigning are increasingly interlinked, we reflect this in the coverage below. The trial of the murderer of Henry Nowak and its aftermath is also covered in sections on ANTI-FASCISM AND FAR RIGHT, POLICE PRISONS AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE, and RACIAL VIOLENCE AND HARASSMENT
Calendar of Racism and Resistance ( 12 – 26 May 2026)
ELECTORAL POLITICS | GOVERNMENT POLICY We do not have capacity to cover all stories related to criticism of social media posts by political candidates. 13 May: European parliamentarians describe as an ‘outrageous’ ‘ideological crusade’ a decision by the European People’s Party and the far-right Patriots for Europe to extend by another six months a scrutiny
Defending universal anti-racist principles – the defining struggle of our times
28 April – 12 May 2026 Who gets to define what racism is and isn’t, and what sorts of anti-racism are publicly acceptable to the gatekeepers of the public space? As hundreds of celebrities sign an open letter defending Southbank Centre Chair Misan Harriman from what is described as a ‘dishonest’ media ‘smear campaign’, the need to defend free speech against racism in all its forms has emerged as the defining struggle of our times. It is a struggle that necessitates bringing together all communities affected in a principled stance that, while recognising differences in racisms’ effects, builds a positive and
Calendar of Racism and Resistance ( 28 April – 12 May 2026)
ELECTORAL POLITICS| GOVERNMENT POLICY See section on anti-terrorism and national security for more information on the Golders Green attack 30 April: In the wake of an antisemitic knife attack in Golders Green, treated as a terrorist incident, Downing Street says new powers are needed to protect the Jewish community. A further £25 million is pledged
The mobilisation of refugee labour for carbon credits as maladaptive practice
The April issue of Race & Class leads with a multi-layered and tightly-argued exposé by three academics of the supposedly green, empowering, and pro-women’s safety UNHCR Refugee Environmental Protection (REP) Fund’s project to use refugee labour in the Global South to generate carbon credits to be traded on global markets. On the face of