To commemorate what would have been A. Sivanandan’s 100th birthday, the IRR are publishing three aphorisms recently found in his 1971 diary.
New aphorisms on A. Sivanandan’s 100th birthday
Calendar of Racism and Resistance (21 November – 5 December 2023)
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 23 November: The European Court of Justice (ECJ) rules that member
Joint declaration: Commemoration of the 24 November 2021 shipwreck
French Below Joint statement, 24 November 2023 Commemoration of the 24 November 2021 shipwreck Two years after the shipwreck of 24 November 2021, as injustice and deaths at the border continue, we stand together to call for a world free from border violence. On 24 November 2021, at least 33 people in a dinghy tried
Challenging media double standard – Resetting the agenda
7 – 21 November 2023 The role of an objective press should be to present the facts and inform the public about what is happening in the world. But the mainstream media, wanting to set the 24-hour news agenda and shape public opinion, have long since jettisoned such an approach. Over the last few weeks,
Calendar of Racism and Resistance (7 – 21 November 2023)
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 November: Home Office data released to the Scottish government
Anti-Palestinianism, suspect communities and racist backlash (7 – 21 November 2023)
ASYLUM | MIGRATION | BORDERS | CITIZENSHIP Borders and internal controls 11 November: The Telegraph claims that the policing and immigration ministers have asked all English and Welsh police forces to report foreign individuals caught in potentially ‘extremist activities’ that could ground revocation of visas, and have also asked the Community Security Trust to pass on
‘County lines’: racism, safeguarding and statecraft in Britain
‘County lines’: racism, safeguarding and statecraft in Britain by Insa Koch, Lauren Wroe and Patrick Williams, three leading experts in law, criminal justice and legal and social policy, is published in the IRR’s journal Race & Class. ‘County Lines’ refers to the government and police’s unique crime label for describing an ‘export mode’ of
Anti-Palestinian racism central to new counter-extremism proposals
24 Oct – 7 November 2023 This week, after the home secretary claimed that those demonstrating in support of a ceasefire in Gaza were participating in ‘hate marches’, and the prime minister declared that during a forthcoming national rally in Armistice weekend, any ‘desecration’ of the Cenotaph would be an ‘affront to British values’, the
Calendar of Racism and Resistance (24 October – 7 November 2023)
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 23 October: Asylum Aid, on behalf of a Cote d’Ivorian
Anti-Palestinianism, suspect communities and racist backlash (24 – 7 November 2023)
ELECTORAL POLITICS | GOVERNMENT POLICY 25 October: 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. (Guardian, 25