sign up to our newsletter Dear supporters, We hope you are all keeping safe and well despite the horrific far-right racist violence spreading across the country. We are continuing as best we can to look after our impacted staff and wider community, while harnessing our mutual anger to hold those who spread racist hate and […]
With 80 anti-racist and migrant rights organisations, we’ve written to the Prime Minister asking for Parliament to be recalled to address far-right attacks spreading across the country. The Government must address the rampant racism, Islamophobia and anti-migrant hate fuelling this violence. Thank you to our friends at Runnymede Trust for coordinating this letter.
by MRN and Islamophobia Response Unit Far-right violence is spreading from Southport to Manchester and Whitehall accompanied by Islamophobic, racist and anti-migrant chants. The violence followed rampant misinformation online including comments by Tommy Robinson in which he linked the attack with Islam and migrants, whereby he actively encouraged protests against ‘asylum hotel owners’. This led
Key details Date and time: 14 September 2024, 10.00-18.00 Location: Highfields Centre, 96 Melbourne Road, Leicester, LE2 0DS GB Price: Free Description MRN, CivicLeicester and The Decolonial Centre are delighted to invite you to our Abolition and Decolonisation Organising Day in Leicester! This space will bring together local communities in the wake of racist riots across
I recently told a fellow migrant friend that crossing the UK Border was always a frightening, stressful experience and they asked, well-meaningly, what I even had to fear considering I have nothing to hide and most things in my favour? She was right in a sense — though both non-White and migrant, I have the
The new Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill brings oppressive counter-terrorism powers into immigration. The Bill announced as part of the King’s Speech is part of a turn towards approaching migration through counter-terror, making space for even greater surveillance of and denial of rights for migrants. The Bill will propose powers that have previously been
The new Government has quickly turned its attention to deterring people from the Global South from coming to the UK. At the same time as announcing the Border Security Bill that would embed an oppressive counter-terrorism approach to ‘preventing small boats crossings’, it is also seemingly taking measures to tackle the “root causes” of displacement.
The Home Office is racist by design. Racism and exclusion are the basis of immigration policies in 2024. They stem from a long history of targeting ‘unwelcome’ groups of migrants based on colonial constructions of race, deservingness or who can be economically ‘useful’ to Britain. Racialised people from Britain’s former colonies being the most affected
What is whataboutism? Whataboutism is deflection from one social justice issue to another. It is a tactic of derailment that demonstrates not only a lack of solidarity and a misunderstanding of a key element of social justice: shared struggle. Essentially in a debate, one issue is weaponised, and is brought up to detract or minimise
The Euros final is coming up. Everywhere I go I see St George’s flags, “its coming home” social media posts, and general celebratory sentiment. But as a second generation Cypriot migrant, I do not have it in me to support the team of my coloniser, nor to take part in these celebrations. I grew up
