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. 22 January: The Department for Work and Pensions presents to parliament a new
Research from the IRR on charging and sentencing after the far-right-orchestrated racial violence in England in summer 2024,[i] finds that attacks could be traced back to scare statements about immigration and two-tier policing and that courts failed to acknowledge the full extent of the racism behind the riots. Interim research findings[ii] released today relate
7 – 21 January 2025 Less than six months after the far-right orchestrated racist riots that targeted asylum accommodation and mosques, comes a new bout of dog-whistle Islamophobia, fomented by Elon Musk who reposted forty tweets on the UK’s child sexual exploitation and ‘grooming gangs’ in 24 hours, also calling for the release of jailed far-right activist
ELECTORAL POLITICS| GOVERNMENT POLICY 8 January: Conservative party leader Kemi Badenoch is urged to sack her shadow justice minister Robert Jenrick after his X post that ‘immigrants with alien cultures have medieval attitudes to women’. (Independent, 8 January 2025) 11 January: Liverpool Labour Walton MP Dan Carden calls on the government to instigate a national
The deadly attack on 20 December 2024 on the Christmas Market in Magdeburg, Germany is covered in the following sections: electoral politics; anti-fascism and far Right; national security; culture and media. ELECTORAL POLITICS| GOVERNMENT POLICY 17 December: After the Israeli government closes its embassy in Dublin and accuses Ireland of libel against the state of
26 November – 10 December 2024 Our calendar this week features the coordinated raids on homes and on the Kurdish Community Centre in Haringey, north London at 2am on 27 November – involving counter-terror units, closure of airspace, helicopters, dogs and a military-style occupation, which left the community angry and apprehensive. The closure of the centre and
ELECTORAL POLITICS| GOVERNMENT POLICY 26 November: Gavin Robinson, leader of the Democratic Unionist Party, is criticised by a Jewish woman for saying that pro-Palestinian graffiti should be removed from the wall of the Royal Victoria hospital in Belfast on the grounds of ‘Jewish safety’. The graffiti is removed. (Belfast Media, 26 November 2024) 27 November:
12 – 26 November 2024 The IRR is really excited to report that it is looking to recruit a dynamic Deputy Director to drive the organisation forward in challenging times. We are asking anyone interested in helping the IRR develop its next phase as a radical educational body, which ‘thinks in order to do’, to
ELECTORAL POLITICS| GOVERNMENT POLICY 12 November: The Norwegian parliament apologises unreservedly to minority groups and Indigenous people for over a century of injustices caused by its ‘Norwegianisation’ policy. (Guardian, 12 November 2024) 13 November: Speaking in the Dutch parliament, far-right PVV leader Geert Wilders recommends cancelling the Dutch passports of those convicted of involvement in
