“‘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 (28 May – 10 June 2025)
ELECTORAL POLITICS | GOVERNMENT POLICY 27-29 May: At Conservative Political Action Conferences (CPAC) in Poland and Hungary, right-wing populist leaders from across Europe herald the new ‘Age of Patriots’, warning that national sovereignty is threatened by the EU and ‘gender and woke madness’. US homeland security secretary Kristi Noem is a keynote speaker at CPAC
Race & Class UK criminal justice resource – The Past in the Present
A collection of summaries of and links to Race & Class articles (1975-2025) on racism, class, criminal justice, related urban and ‘race’ policies, and key moments of resistance to state/institutional racism. In addition to the archive, an accompanying Race & Class UK Criminal Justice timeline provides information by year (1958-2025) on key pieces of
Calendar of Racism and Resistance (14 – 28 May 2025)
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 which also includes information on the influence of the Christian Right as well as the religious Right generally. 14 May: Poland’s polarising presidential election campaign is contributing to a rise in
Report endorsements: Paramilitary policing against the people
Paramilitary policing against the people: Colonial continuities and the challenge from below – endorsements from Statewatch, Omega Research Foundation, Advocacy Officer European Legal Support Centre, Black Lives Matter UK and Alfie Meadows: Chris Jones, Executive Director, Statewatch With European governments enthusiastically signing up for a new international arms race, this important study looks inwards:
Paramilitary policing against the people: Colonial continuities and the challenge from below
Europe’s increased use of weaponry against racialised minorities, migrants and protesters, signifies creeping authoritarianism – IRR new study finds The new study, published on the fifth anniversary of the death of George Floyd, links the growing use of dangerous crowd control weaponry to the embrace of hypermilitarised policing in Europe. The study focuses on the experiences
Calendar of Racism and Resistance (29 April – 13 May 2025)
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 which also includes information on the influence of the Christian Right as well as the religious Right generally. 1 May: In the local mayoral and council elections held in England, the
Pandering to base populism
15 – 30 April 2025 Home secretary Yvette Cooper’s shameless decision, in the run-up to the May local elections, to publish statistics on the nationalities of foreign offenders and their crimes, and her amendment to the Borders Security Bill to bar all foreign nationals on the sex offenders’ register from making asylum claims, haven’t gained
Calendar of Racism and Resistance (15 – 29 April 2025)
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 which also includes information on the influence of the Christian Right as well as the religious Right generally. 17 April: Centre-left parties in Italy file a complaint with the communications watchdog
Calendar of Racism and Resistance ( 1 – 15 April 2025)
ELECTORAL POLITICS| GOVERNMENT POLICY 4 April: Libyan authorities, funded by the EU and Italy to prevent migrants embarking for Europe, accuse aid groups including MSF, the Norwegian Refugee Council and the UNHCR, of seeking to change the country’s ethnic makeup by encouraging sub-Saharan African migrants to settle there, which the internal security spokesman says is
Connecting the cuts: disability, borders and race
18 March – 1 April 2025 Last week, as highlighted in our calendar of racism and resistance, the government announced plans to cut at least £5 billion from disability benefits. Under such plans, over 370,000 people will lose their Personal Independence Payments (PIP), 3.2 million households will be worse off, 150,000 people will lose access to