An overview of acts of domestic terror against Muslims and racist attacks in the first three months of 2014. The ‘global war on terror’ has for some time now been over, according to leading politicians and some political commentators. Given that many of its hallmarks are still in operation, such a claim could easily be
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The weight of words
The latest issue of Race & Class assesses popular debate around issues involving the far Right in Europe. In ‘The weight of words: the freedom of expression debate in Norway‘, Sindre Bangstad, an affiliate researcher at the Faculty of Theology, University of Oslo, explores the philosophical and political underpinnings of the freedom of expression debate
Tackling racism through education
At a time when anti-racism in education is often being reduced to ‘cultural awareness’ projects, Show Racism the Red Card’s direct tackling of racism is welcome. In the early 1980s, the Institute of Race Relations (IRR) produced a series of educational booklets on racism in Britain starting from the premise that, at that time, the
‘No one can be left without hope’: Breathing life into global action for asylum seekers
Australia’s inhuman anti-asylum policies may survive the many protests at Reza Berati’s offshore detention death, but change can come through global solidarity in pursuit of justice for asylum seekers, says Leanne Weber of the Border Crossing Observatory at Monash University. On 23 February Melbourne’s Federation Square filled with people who had come to commemorate the
Death at Europe’s frontiers: foreseeable result of state policy?
European states are morally responsible for deaths at the EU’s borders, argues the International State Crime Initiative. ‘This is the main feature of contemporary border politics. It exposes the border transgressors to death rather than directly using its power to kill.’ Khosravi (2010), ‘Illegal’ Traveller: an auto-ethnography of borders (p. 27) On 6 February, fifteen
Immigration Bill passes through Commons
The progress of another punitive Bill which strips away legal protection from migrants and will increase homelessness, ill health and destitution, seems for now to have tri-partisan support. The Immigration Bill finished its passage through the House of Commons on 30 January. The third reading ought to have been a last chance for MPs to
Bearing witness in poetry
An indictment of the treatment of poor North African migrants in Belgium and the devastating effects of incarceration has been published as a volume of poetry (in French). In Salée est l’eau de l’amer (Salt is the Water of Bitterness), Souad, a second-generation Moroccan migrant in Belgium, writes autobiographical poems presenting a chronological account of
The continuing scandal of the National Socialist Underground
An interview with Eike Sanders, Coordinator of NSU-watch. In November 2011, Germany woke up to a story that, at first glance, seemed unbelievable. Two neo-nazis, pursued by the police following a bank robbery in Eisenach, Thuringia, had set fire to their getaway car in an apparent joint suicide pact. As the news was broadcast, a
Police accused of ‘botched’ counter-terror operation
Serious concerns have been raised about the conduct of counter-terrorism officers after the CPS dropped the remaining charges against the subject of a ‘hard stop’ operation in Woolwich last June. Following the operation conducted by officers from SO15, the Met police’s Counter-Terrorism command, Husani Williams was arrested and charged with possession of a Class
The Corin Redgrave memorial lecture 2014
A lecture on the rule of law and fundamental human rights. Saturday 25 January 2014, 2pm Friends’ Meeting House, Euston Road, London NW1 2BJ Speaker: Phillipe Sands QC – expert in international law RELATED LINKS Peace and Progress