News

Calendar of Racism and Resistance – incorporating Covid-19 Roundup (8 – 22 April 2020)

A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe.  We have incorporated the Covid-19 roundup of racism, health, policing and civil liberties into the calendar of racism and resistance, which we believe makes developments during this period clearer and easier to understand. HEALTH AND POLICY 10 April: As

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Comment

Institutional racism in the NHS intensifies in times of crisis

As the government announces that NHS England and Public Health England will lead an inquiry into the disproportionate impact of coronavirus on BAME communities, a Black health activist warns that the vague social construct of ‘race’ is being used to explain the mortality and morbidity of diverse populations, and more must be done to hold

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Interview

Race hate crimes – collateral damage of Covid-19?

In this wide-ranging and disturbing interview, Suresh Grover and Dorothea Jones[1] describe how a combination of Covid-19-linked racism, the ‘Blame China’ narrative and lockdown social distancing measures, are impacting on the caseload of The Monitoring Group; and reflect on the weak responses from the multiple agencies that should be assisting. Liz Fekete: The Guardian has

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Is the ‘war on Covid-19’ morphing into a war on the poor?

The pandemic is revealing the ways in which global health outcomes are shaped by race, class and indigeneity. As the pandemic spreads to every region of the world, and threatens Indigenous Peoples [1] who are now developing their own ‘self-determined protection mechanisms’[2] early signs suggest that the global war on Covid-19 is morphing into a war on

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Calendar of racism and resistance (25 March – 8 April 2020)

A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe News stories related to coronavirus have been compiled in a separate calendar, view here. ASYLUM AND MIGRATION ASYLUM AND MIGRATION RIGHTS 25 March: In response to a Law Commission report published in January, which recommended the simplification of the ‘overly complex and

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Expanding solidarity and raising funds for the Gilets Noirs.

Before the Covid-19 lockdown in France the Gilets Noirs, the headline-grabbing protest movement of sans-papiers in France, were continuing to break new ground and finding exciting ways to sustain their effort through the innovative ‘solidarity pot’. There can be no doubt that the Gilets Noirs are a formidable ensemble. Their occupations and protests certainly seize

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From Windrush to Covid 19: another scandal in the making

A review of differential policies towards different populations  draws attention to the ways in which civil society is mobilising to demand protection and an end to the stigmatisation of those with no escape from infection. The growing coronavirus crisis has exposed many faultlines in the UK and in Europe, and in particular, governments’ treatment of

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Asylum in the time of Covid-19

The appalling, overcrowded, unhygienic housing offered to some asylum seekers and their young children is putting them at especial risk of Covid-19. A refusal of insanitary accommodation leads to threats of homelessness. John Grayson of South Yorkshire Migration & Asylum Action Group investigates the reality in Leeds, Halifax and Wakefield. Helen ‘I don’t want to

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