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Around 100 supporters of the English Defence League, including its leader, threw bottles at the police and chanted anti-Muslim slogans after the murder of a British soldier in Woolwich.
Four people were arrested for being drunk and disorderly and public order offences at an English Defence League demonstration in Leeds against the planned opening of a Muslim-run community centre.
The BNP has called on its members to have more children as a way of ‘building up the white population’. This follows its failure to secure a single seat in last week’s local elections.
This week, we publish a briefing paper on the future of human rights in Britain, written by the IRR’s vice-chair, Frances Webber.
An overview of racially motivated attacks perpetrated by members of the far-right and convictions over the last few months.
A memorial plaque for the victims of David Copeland’s homophobic nail bomb attack on the Admiral Duncan pub in 1999 has gone missing. Copeland was also responsible for racist bombings in Brixton and Brick Lane.
Chris Scotton, UKIP’s candidate for Leicester, has been expelled from the party after liking a series of racist groups on Facebook, including the English Defence League.
UKIP has refused to condemn its candidate for Rotherham, Caven Vines, who claims that there are ‘too many Muslims in Britain’, despite his links to the far-right BNP’s Rotherham organiser.
Twenty people were arrested and five charged at a nationalist demonstration in Brighton organised by March for England. Arrests were made for public order offences, affray, assault, theft, criminal damage and possessing weapons.
As the twentieth anniversary of the murder of Stephen Lawrence approaches, the IRR examines racial violence since his death in 1993.
John Smyth, a former Democratic Unionist Party candidate, has been sentenced to three years in jail for a racially motivated pipe bomb attack against a Polish couple in Antrim in 2011.
A collection of essays on varieties of European racism contains valuable insights and useful lessons.
Self-styled neo-Nazi and convicted terrorist Trevor Hannington has been jailed for waging a hate campaign against a woman who told police about his activities.
The leader of the English Defence League has issued a statement instructing all nationalist parties to stand aside to make way for UKIP at the local elections next month.
The IRR’s free weekly email on race and refugee issues.
Can European security services and law enforcement agencies be entrusted with policing the far Right?
The far Right, using information from an anti-extremist student body, is trying to sabotage Islamic events.
An anti-racist group has raised concerns over the appointment of the self-confessed fascist Paolo Di Canio as the manager of Sunderland A.F.C.
Three teenagers accused of plotting terror attacks using pipe bombs have appeared in court today. The youths, who are believed to be right-wing extremists, were arrested in February this year.
Detectives have arrested eight people in connection with violent clashes which broke out at a Walsall EDL protest on 29th September.
A large donation of £200, 000 has ‘saved’ the BNP, and was made by an East London tube driver who was ‘unhappy’ about the demographic changes in his area.
The IRR’s free weekly email on race and refugee issues.
The family of Kriss Donald, a teenage boy murdered by a group of Asians in 2004, have attacked the Scottish Defence League and National Front for holding a memorial for his death, calling their actions ‘an insult to his memory’.
The IRR’s free weekly email on race and refugee issues.
Apr 11 2013
‘May we bring harmony’? Thatcher’s legacy on ‘race’
Cameron’s nativist policies begin with Thatcher.
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