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Far-right demonstrators take to streets demanding repatriation of immigrants in wake of Brexit

A tense stand-off took place in #Newcastle city centre as groups defending refugees gathered to oppose the demo arranged by the English Defence League

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#manifestation #extrême-droite

’My family doesn’t feel safe here any more’: eastern Europeans on Brexit

Since Britain voted to leave the European Union, people have been reporting incidents of racism believed to have been fuelled by the referendum result.

▻https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jun/27/family-safe-eastern-europeans-brexit-britain-eu-referendum?CMP=Share_An
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EU referendum: Immigrants told to ’leave UK now’ after ’divisive and xenophobic’ Brexit campaign, Warsi says

Former Tory chairwoman switched from backing Leave to Remain over concerns ’lies and hate’ were being spread by pro-Brexit politicians

▻http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/eu-referendum-brexit-immigration-immigrants-campaign-latest-baroness-

Brexit: in salita l’hate speech, il web si auto-organizza per contrastarlo

Dopo il voto espresso al referendum sull’Unione europea in Regno Unito aumentano i discorsi d’odio, ma il web risponde. Giovanni Ziccardi: “Oggi non si può combattere l’odio senza tecnologia”

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▻http://www.cartadiroma.org/editoriale/brexit-e-hate-speech-i-social-media-come-strumento-per-combattere-lodio

El ‘Brexit’ desata la rabia racista

El país vive una repentina cadena de escenas xenófobas, incluso con cartas amenazantes en los buzones

▻http://internacional.elpais.com/internacional/2016/06/27/actualidad/1467050608_961870.html

UK: Act to Curb Xenophobic Attacks After Referendum

The authorities should take strong action to curb xenophobic attacks and abuse in the United Kingdom in the wake of June 23, 2016 European Union referendum, Human Rights Watch said today.

▻https://www.hrw.org/news/2016/06/27/uk-act-curb-xenophobic-attacks-after-referendum

Brexit and human rights: winter is coming

Given the toxic politics of Farage, Johnson, Le Pen and Trump, will human rights be enough to resist right-wing nationalism in the wake of Brexit?

▻https://www.opendemocracy.net/openglobalrights/stephen-hopgood/brexit-and-human-rights-winter-is-coming

Island retreat: on hate, violence and the murder of #Jo_Cox

Racists have been emboldened and hatred has been normalised.

▻https://www.opendemocracy.net/uk/aaron-winter/island-retreat-on-hate-violence-and-murder-of-jo-cox

Police log fivefold rise in race-hate complaints since Brexit result

National Police Chiefs Council reports increase in incidents filed to crime website as forces tackle nationwide spate of attacks

▻https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jun/30/police-report-fivefold-increase-race-hate-crimes-since-brexit-result?CM

Building an anti-fascist culture post-Brexit

A vast amount has already been said about ‘Brexit’ and the general climate of nationalism and xenophobia in which the vote took place. We want to concentrate on where we can go from here. Between rising fascism on the one hand, and despair on the other, we think it’s essential we build a culture of anti-fascism based on solidarity and autonomy. Solidarity here means taking action to support each other against those who seek to impose their authoritarian and racist ideal of a uniform society. Autonomy means unlearning our habit of looking to leaders for solutions, and taking the initiative to organise for ourselves.

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Why Amnesty Has Launched an Emergency Campaign on Racism

Of course, bigotry existed before this referendum, but undeniably the campaign was marked by divisive, toxic rhetoric as well as a failure from political leaders to condemn it and it seems clear that we are now reaping the referendum rhetoric whirlwind.

▻http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/kate-allen/amnesty-racism-after-brexit_b_10773972.html

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Ask your local council to stand against hate

Violence. Vandalism. Hate speech. Racist slogans on t-shirts. In the last few days, reports of hate crimes in the UK have increased. Fuelled by years of hostile rhetoric, coupled with divisive campaigns, we are now seeing racism and xenophobia on the rise on our streets and in our communities.

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Asians targeted as racist attacks rise after EU vote

POLICE officers have been put on alert following the dramatic rise in race-related hate crime, which has shot up 57 per cent following Britain’s decision to leave the EU.

▻https://www.easterneye.eu/news/detail/asians-targetted-as-racist-attacks-rise-after-eu-vote

My 350 on BREXIT: Who is going to clean up the mess of the EU referendum?

The politics of escapism won the day; yet the Leave campaign leaders are escaping from taking responsibility for the xenophobia and social divisions in the country.

▻https://www.opendemocracy.net/francesca-es-montemaggi/my-350-on-brexit-who-is-going-to-clean-up-mess-of-eu-referendum

After ‘Brexit’ Vote, Immigrants Feel a Town Turn Against Them

BOSTON, England — A few days after Britain voted to leave the European Union, Monika Baginski was in a supermarket, chatting with a friend on the phone in her native Polish, when a man followed her down the aisle. “You foreigner,” Ms. Baginski recalled him saying. “You’ll be out soon.”

▻http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/10/world/europe/brexit-immigrants-great-britain-eu.html?smid=tw-share

Post-Brexit racism

Below we present an overview of racially motivated attacks and other incidents of harassment that have taken place since the Brexit result, which indicate the types of attacks taking place across the UK. But of course, this account is in no way exhaustive.

▻http://www.irr.org.uk/news/post-brexit-racism/?platform=hootsuite

A website that tracks racist and xenophobic harassment in public spaces has been launched. iStreetwatch says that incidents of racist and anti-migrant abuse are becoming ever more public and ever more prolific. The site encourgages people who have witnessed or experienced racist or xenophobic harassment to submit their experiences here.

▻http://www.istreetwatch.co.uk/reports/timeline

True scale of London immigration raids revealed

Journalist Philip Kleinfeld has uncovered an 80% rise in the number of immigration raids in London over the last five years. Data released to Kelinfeld by the Home Office under the Freedom of Information Act breaks down raids in the capital by individual postcodes. It shows a total of 19,853 raids — almost 11 a day — from 2010 to 2015.

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▻http://www.migrantsrights.org.uk/news/2016/true-scale-london-immigration-raids-revealed

Post-referendum racism and the importance of social activism

A new report by social media activists on the spike of hate crimes immediately after the referendum on EU membership should prove uncomfortable reading for the Home Office.

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Britain’s Brexit Hate Crime Problem

This weekend a silent march and vigil was held in the town of Harlow, Essex to commemorate Arkadiusz Jozwik. The 40-year-old Polish man, who had lived in the UK for four years, was attacked with a friend a week earlier in the town and died of head injuries. Police are investigating the attack as a hate crime.

▻https://www.hrw.org/news/2016/09/05/britains-brexit-hate-crime-problem

Interview about “racist abuse” interrupted by racist abuse

As Polish police officers begin patrolling #Harlow tomorrow after a Polish man was killed there last month, in #Leeds police are investigating yet another racially-aggravated assault against a Polish man.

▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjzWfdgnK-M

#racisme #xénophobie #hate_crime #attaque_raciste #polonais #Brexit #UK #Angleterre

UK student stabbed in neck for speaking Polish describes brutal post-Brexit assault in #Telford

21-year-old Bartosz Milewski fears going out after dark following brutal attack

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▻http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/uk-student-stabbed-in-neck-for-speaking-polish-brutal-post-brexit-ass

Hate crimes in UK surge 41% after Brexit vote

Reported offences more than two-fifths higher in July than same time last year

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Hate crimes soared by 41% after Brexit vote, official figures reveal

Home Office figures appear to correlate with previous reports of a rise in post-Brexit hate crime

▻http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/brexit-hate-crimes-racism-eu-referendum-vote-attacks-increase-police-

How foreigners became the convenient scapegoat of the referendum campaign

The Brexit campaign was never really about the EU or even immigration. It was about foreigners. Foreigners became a scapegoat for all the things that are not working properly – including in the NHS and in schools. But the government could not have confronted this use of xenophobia, writes Rodney Barker. Doing so would be to admit that these failures were not because of immigration but because of its own policies.

▻http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandpolicy/how-foreigners-became-the-convenient-scapegoat-of-the-referendum-campai

White supremacist found guilty of assassination of UK Remain MP

A white rights terrorist was found guilty of the murder of British MP Jo Cox on Wednesday (23 November), who was assassinated in the run-up to the Brexit referendum in June.

▻http://www.euractiv.com/section/uk-europe/news/white-supremacist-found-guilty-of-assassination-of-uk-remain-mp

Royaume-Uni. Polémique autour du traitement médiatique du meurtre de Jo Cox

Thomas Mair, l’homme qui a tué en juin la députée Jo Cox, a été condamné à la prison à perpétuité. La façon dont les #médias traitent cette information a aussitôt ranimé la polémique sur leur responsabilité dans l’accentuation des tensions sociales.

▻http://www.courrierinternational.com/article/royaume-uni-polemique-autour-du-traitement-med

Racial violence and the Brexit state

Through a detailed examination of cases on the IRR’s unique database it establishes a link between the language and behaviour of perpetrators of such violence, the rhetoric and policy pronouncements of politicians over recent years and the stigmatising frameworks of the media.

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Pour télécharger le rapport:
▻http://www.irr.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Racial-violence-and-the-Brexit-state-final.pdf

The seeds of post-Brexit racial violence lie in government policy

Racist attacks are condemned by politicians who stop short of examining their complicity. New research suggests policy ignites hatred.

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▻https://www.opendemocracy.net/uk/shinealight/jenny-bourne/seeds-of-post-brexit-racial-violence-lie-in-government-policy?platfor

Racism, Crisis, Brexit

This article offers a conjunctural analysis of the financial and political crisis within which Brexit occurred with a specific attentiveness to race and racism. Brexit and its aftermath have been overdetermined by racism, including racist violence. We suggest that the Leave campaign secured its victory by bringing together two contradictory but inter-locking visions. The first comprises an imperial longing to restore Britain’s place in the world as primus inter pares that occludes any coming to terms with the corrosive legacies of colonial conquest and racist subjugation. The second takes the form of an insular, Powellite narrative of island retreat from a “globalizing” world, one that is no longer recognizably “British”. Further, the article argues that an invisible driver of the Brexit vote and its racist aftermath has been a politicization of Englishness. We conclude by outlining some resources of hope that could potentially help to negotiate the current emergency.

▻https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01419870.2017.1361544