Dear IRR News subscriber, This week IRR News examines via two new publications and one developing campaign, the current state of narratives relating to race issues emerging from Left, Right and Centre. Liz Fekete reviewing the recent anthology, Free Movement and Beyond: Agenda Setting for Brexit Britain, written by leftists in the Remain camp suggests that
Calendar of racism and resistance (21 April – 4 May 2017)
A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. Asylum and migration April: Statewatch publishes a ‘Viewpoint’ by Chris Jones: Hindering humanitarianism: European Commission will not ensure protection for those supporting sans-papiers. Download it here (pdf file,127kb). 20 April: Doctors of the World launches a campaign, #StopSharing,
Breitbart: global politics and fake news
A new report by HOPE not Hate, Breitbart – A rightwing plot to shape Europe’s future, explores Breitbart’s influence on global politics, the creation of fake news and its expansion into London. ‘It’s easy to see why the KKK views Trump as their champion when Trump appoints one of the foremost peddlers of white supremacist themes
Will a sanitised history be launched with Mayflower 400?
Danny Reilly of the newly formed Mayflower Mavericks Campaign examines emerging issues around the plans to celebrate the 400th anniversary in 2020 of the pilgrims’ voyage to the US in Plymouth. Mayflower to Seaflower In the autumn of 1620 the ship Mayflower, with 102 passengers, landed in North America and started the colonisation of the
Whose freedom? Whose movement? Whose rights?
A new book on Brexit and freedom of movement raises more questions than answers. The corporate venue, the glitzy offices of Bloomberg LP’s European headquarters in the City of London, speaks of a lifestyle a million miles removed from lives now lived in Labour’s old working-class heartlands. But it was here, in a location that
IRR News (7 – 20 April 2017)
Dear IRR News subscriber, A snap election has been called by a government seeking an electoral mandate for an anti-immigration, hard Brexit, of which Theresa May’s adamant refusal to guarantee long-resident workers’ and families’ rights is an emblem. The nativist ‘take back control’ political rhetoric that has hardened since Brexit means that anti-foreigner, anti-migrant themes
Calendar of racism and resistance (7 – 20 April 2017)
A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. Asylum and migration 6 April: A new immigration skills charge comes into force, requiring employers to pay a £1,000 annual levy for hiring certain skilled workers from outside the European Economic Area. It is feared the charge could
Race & Class author wins Civil Rights essay award
Joseph Parrott has won an award recognising ‘the best journal article or chapter in an edited book on the historical relationship between media and civil rights published during the previous two years’. A postdoctoral fellow at Yale University, Joseph Parrott has won the 2017 Farrar Award in Media & Civil Rights History for his article published in the July–September
Brexit and the right to work in the UK
An immigration specialist, looking at the future for EU citizens seeking to work in the UK, argues that migration, whether from Europe or elsewhere, has always been controlled in the interests of the economy. As the UK prepares for Brexit, EU nationals await announcements about the restrictions which will be imposed on their right to
Narratives that marginalise: from Ferguson to Palestine
The April 2017 Race & Class tackles two key current themes: the impact of Fox News in (mis)representing news and creating racist discourses, and the way in which Canadian ‘neoliberal multiculturalism’ is marginalising Arabs, Muslims and those in solidarity with Palestine. Colleen Mills, researcher into racism and hate crime at John Jay College of Criminal