NatCon UK🧵

What does this week's UK National Conservativism conference reveal about global trends amongst the international Right?`

Follow this THREAD for a collection of Race & Class and @IRR_News resources on the so-called 'war on woke' NatCon 2023 brought together a number of conservative politicians, academics and commentators who decry 'woke dogma' as an existential threat to society. Many of them feature in this crucial new article, 'An anatomy of the British war on woke' journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/03…

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Civilisational racism, ethnonationalism and the clash of imperialisms in Ukraine🇺🇦

As calls for a peace process to end the conflict grow, Liz Fekete analyses the consequences of the war from an anti-racist, internationalist viewpoint🧵
bit.ly/civiracism A leading expert on European racism, Fekete pinpoints the need to examine how new geopolitics, changing imperialisms and the entrenching of a racism built on a 19th century-style civilisational hierarchy and revanchist nationalisms are emerging in the fall-out of the war.

‘The half I give away will change the half I keep’

Today marks 50 years since John Berger won the Booker prize for his novel G. In his speech at Café Royal, he shared half the prize money with the British Black panthers and the other half funded his research on migrant workers. Martyn Hudson reflects on its implications of that speech for anti-racist struggles in the 70s & the present day in our latest issue of Race & Class.

The half he kept was used for a study of migrant workers in Europe which became A Seventh Man: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

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‘The argument is not so much about facts as about interpretation’ – Colin Prescod (Archives, race, class and rage)

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A selection of articles exploring the way we ‘do’ history - history is not etched in stone, but curated. How can we challenge this? What is reparatory history? What does it mean to do it in Britain?

Catherine Hall argues that debates on reparation need to include questions about the historical narratives on ‘race’ and empire that have been and are being produced:

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Essential reading on policing and deaths in custody in the UK- free to access

‘The silence of the custodial system is compounded by the silences of racism. We have chosen to break that silence’
-A. Sivanandan, intro of IRR report Deadly Silence

journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.117… ‘There is no justice, there is just us’ - Stafford Scott in the IRR report Dying for Justice. 1/2

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How does the carceral state operate in the US?

As the world wakes up to racism and police brutality, these articles reveal the implications of the carceral state for black communities in the US.

Feat. Angela Davis, Micol Seigel & Colleen E Mills 📺Framing Ferguson

In 2014 a police officer shot unarmed teenager Michael Brown, sparking protests around the world. Protests in Ferguson were met by intense law enforcement.

This piece analyses Fox News coverage, arguing it perpetuated racist discourses
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‘We starved, but we shared.’

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As these principles become more crucial during the pandemic, we publish an Editors selection of R&C articles on the black tradition of mutual aid, self-help and solidarity.

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irr.org.uk/news/we-starve… In post-war Britain, racialised and working-class communities organised to meet vital needs that were either neglected by a racist state, or engendered by it, whilst also pushing for a more radical ‘normal’.

This history has been overlooked, with numerous unsung heroes...