A collection of summaries of and links to Race & Class articles (1975-2025) on racism, class, criminal justice, related urban and ‘race’ policies, and key moments of resistance to state/institutional racism. In addition to the archive, an accompanying Race & Class UK Criminal Justice timeline provides information by year (1958-2025) on key pieces of
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. 14 May: Poland’s polarising presidential election campaign is contributing to a rise in
Paramilitary policing against the people: Colonial continuities and the challenge from below – endorsements from Statewatch, Omega Research Foundation, Advocacy Officer European Legal Support Centre, Black Lives Matter UK and Alfie Meadows: Chris Jones, Executive Director, Statewatch With European governments enthusiastically signing up for a new international arms race, this important study looks inwards:
Europe’s increased use of weaponry against racialised minorities, migrants and protesters, signifies creeping authoritarianism – IRR new study finds The new study, published on the fifth anniversary of the death of George Floyd, links the growing use of dangerous crowd control weaponry to the embrace of hypermilitarised policing in Europe. The study focuses on the experiences
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. 1 May: In the local mayoral and council elections held in England, the
15 – 30 April 2025 Home secretary Yvette Cooper’s shameless decision, in the run-up to the May local elections, to publish statistics on the nationalities of foreign offenders and their crimes, and her amendment to the Borders Security Bill to bar all foreign nationals on the sex offenders’ register from making asylum claims, haven’t gained
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. 17 April: Centre-left parties in Italy file a complaint with the communications watchdog
ELECTORAL POLITICS| GOVERNMENT POLICY 4 April: Libyan authorities, funded by the EU and Italy to prevent migrants embarking for Europe, accuse aid groups including MSF, the Norwegian Refugee Council and the UNHCR, of seeking to change the country’s ethnic makeup by encouraging sub-Saharan African migrants to settle there, which the internal security spokesman says is
18 March – 1 April 2025 Last week, as highlighted in our calendar of racism and resistance, the government announced plans to cut at least £5 billion from disability benefits. Under such plans, over 370,000 people will lose their Personal Independence Payments (PIP), 3.2 million households will be worse off, 150,000 people will lose access to
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. 19 March: As research shows 13 percent of young men aged between
