Racist violence involving public order offences, physical attack and criminal damage has increased, but the Home Office and the media are in denial as to the real causes. On 16 October, the Home Office released the 2018/2019 statistics on hate crimes in England and Wales with all hate crime (race or ethnicity, sexual orientation, religion
We are providing all you need to know about the Gilets Noirs and its continuing fight for the rights of undocumented people in France and beyond. In November of 2018, French President Emmanuel Macron announced the introduction of a fuel tax that would disproportionately affect those on lower incomes (those in the bottom decile were to be
A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. ASYLUM, MIGRANT RIGHTS, CITIZENSHIP Asylum and migration rights 1 October: In a speech at the Conservative party conference, home secretary Priti Patel outlines a hardline immigration policy, promising to end free movement for EU nationals and introduce an
The Seven Sisters Market Tenants’ Association has been granted a hearing at the High Court on October 8th and 9th over the demolition of community and business spaces at the Latin Village, also known as, El Pueblito Paisa. They say ‘we cannot allow our important community space, especially for women and children, to be replaced by a
A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. ASYLUM, MIGRATION AND CITIZENSHIP Asylum and migrant rights 17 September: The inquest opens into the death of Mulubrhane Medhane Kfleyosus, a 19-year-old asylum seeker from Milton Keynes who took his life on 18 February 2019, the fourth from
Why are specialist services for black and minoritised women and girls escaping violence so important? And why have the voices of those organisations been erased from the discussion around Child Sexual Exploitation (CSE) cases in Rotherham and other northern cities? Sophia Siddiqui travelled to Rotherham to find out. ‘For Rotherham’ was scrawled on the ammunition
A ‘French Black Lives Matter’ campaign against police brutality and racialised violence is calling out for justice. On 19 July 2016, his 24th birthday, Adama Traoré died in police custody in the Persan police station, Paris. His arrest in questionable circumstances, the silence following his death from the French state, and the fact that no
If we are not vigilant, the government’s attempts to deny the links between speech that inflames and actual acts of physical violence could be extended to deny or excuse incitement to racial hatred. On BBC’s Andrew Marr show, Boris Johnson defended his use of ‘martial metaphors’ in the first parliamentary debate since parliament was reconvened
To complement the re-issuing of Sivanandan’s path-breaking collection of essays, Communities of Resistance, Race & Class leads with a thought-provoking piece calling for a new politics of ‘radical kinship’ to forge the dynamic internationalist politics now needed to combat growing racism and fascism. Across the globe, women, BAME and LGBTQI communities face hatred and violence
Join the Northern Police Monitoring Project for a discussion on the effects of the Prevent strategy and the over-policing of BAME communities. Speakers include Dr Asim Qureshi, Dr Fahid Qurashi, Ghulam Haydar 4 October 2019, 18.30 – 19.45 Free event Friend’s Meeting House, Manchester More information here
