Liz Fekete
Recent articles
Germany: freedom to speak on racism under threat
In Germany, an anti-racist academic faces prosecution for questioning whether court negligence could have been a contributory factor in the case of Marwa al-Sherbini, who was stabbed to death in a Dresden courtroom in July 2009.
23 February 2010 (1652 words)
How the extreme Right hijacks direct democracy
The IRR European Race Audit (ERA) publishes today two briefing papers on the Swiss referendum against minarets and the ways in which direct democracy can be hijacked by the extreme Right.
11 February 2010 (362 words)
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The new McCarthyism
By Liz Fekete
Liz Fekete, delivering the eighth Claudia Jones Memorial Lecture, describes the new McCarthyism against Muslims sweeping across Europe and calls for a campaign against racism and Islamophobia in the media.
29 October 2009 (3515 words)
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Building migrant civil engagement in east Germany
An interview with Dr Esra Erdem, coordinator of the Empowerment and Participation of Immigrants* in east Germany project (EmPa) based at the Brandenburg Regional Centres for Education, Integration and Democracy.
29 October 2009 (2267 words)
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Racism, elections and the economic down-turn
By Liz Fekete
Below we reproduce the editorial from the latest issue of the European Race Bulletin.
10 September 2009 (536 words)
Germany: why did Marwa al-Sherbini die?
On 1 July, Marwa al-Sherbini, an Egyptian woman who wore the headscarf and was three months pregnant, was brutally murdered in a Dresden courtroom by a German man of Russian descent who declared 'you have no right to live'.
8 July 2009 (1332 words)
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Migrant coalition-building in Amsterdam
By Liz Fekete
If you want change, argues the Transnational Migrant Platform (TMP) in Amsterdam, you need to build a broad coalition capable of working simultaneously both on the domestic and the international front.
25 June 2009 (2523 words)
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The parallel world of Europe's anti-terror regimen
By Liz Fekete
Below we reproduce the introduction to the latest edition of the European Race Bulletin.
28 May 2009 (1654 words)
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Pioneering a new educational forum
By Liz Fekete
A debate on asylum-seeking children organised by students from Bristol's City Academy, in which the IRR played an active role, could provide a model for schools.
11 December 2008 (1603 words)
Unity of purpose in the French banlieues
For the second year running, French grassroots anti-racist associations joined forces to organise the Social Forum of the Banlieues (FSQP, Le Forum Social des Quartiers Populaires).
9 October 2008 (1103 words)