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A teaching resource for Citizenship at Key Stages 3 and 4. Struggles For Justice is a free, downloadable teaching resource that allows pupils to think about and debate contemporary issues that are ...
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Research by PopuList suggests that over the last three decades, far-right parties in Europe have tripled their vote share

Research by PopuList suggests that over the last three decades, far-right parties in Europe have tripled their vote share ...
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Citizenship: from right to privilege

Description Written in the wake of the Nationality and Borders Act, Citizenship: from right to privilege shows how outrage against the controversial ‘clause 9’ (now Section 10 of the Act), allowing ...
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The Home Office launches Operation Sillath, involving speedy return of those…

The Home Office launches Operation Sillath, involving speedy return of those… The Home Office launches Operation Sillath, involving speedy return of those… ...
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A threat to public safety: policing, racism and the Covid-19 pandemic

A new report from the IRR and Centre on the Dynamics of Ethnicity (CoDE) suggests that policing during the Covid-19 pandemic undermines public health measures whilst disproportionately targeting Black ...
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Sharia Watch UK and the metamorphosis of Anne Marie Waters

In the first of an occasional series from Spinwatch, Hilary Aked examines Sharia Watch and its founder Anne Marie Waters. Spinwatch, which investigates and campaigns on PR, propaganda and lobbying in ...
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Over-policed and under-protected: why does nothing change?

Twenty-four years separates them, but both the Macpherson report and the Casey report identified ‘poor service provision’ as at the heart of institutional racism in policing. Writing from an ...
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The Met Gangs Matrix – institutional racism in action

Lee Bridges, Professor Emeritus (School of Law, University of Warwick), examines the ethnic composition of the Metropolitan police’s gangs database. In October 2014, the Met police disclosed ...
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NatCon and the British war on woke: what you need to know

The American hard Right are coming to the UK – and Europe. But, unlike in Hungary, where the gathering of Europe’s extreme-right figures (including the prime ministers of Hungary and Georgia) was an ...
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Recollections on the Asian Youth Movements that emerged in the 1970s

On the launch of the young people’s oral history project exhibition ‘Activating Newham Community & Activism 1980-1991’, Jasbir Singh writes about his experiences and the seminal work of the Asian ...
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How Black Working-Class Youth are Criminalised and Excluded in the English School System

While a minority of young, multiracial working-class Londoners caught up in serious youth violence are schooled in the Pupil Referral Units (PRUs) and Alternative Provision (AP) that forms part of the ...
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Stop changing the subject – the problem is fascism

These far-right riots and the ensuing racist and Islamophobic violence are unparalleled. Yet the government’s response is to focus on ‘violent disorder across the ideological spectrum’. This ...