The latest issue of Race & Class examines the 2013 ‘riots’ in Stockholm in the light of other recent urban rebellions. In the new issue of Race & Class, three distinguished academics from Sweden’s Institute for Research on Migration, Ethnicity and Society examine the 2013 ‘riots’ in Sweden, comparing them to the August 2011 ‘riots’ in
Dear IRR News subscriber, This week the IRR’s Jenny Bourne assesses ‘the cuddlification of Black revolutionaries’ and regular contributor John Grayson analyses David Blunkett’s comments on the Roma in Sheffield. And we have a seasonal article examining the meaning behind a much-loved Christmas carol. In news from across the UK, the Home Office has deported,
We publish below reflections on the political and media furore surrounding Sheffield’s Roma by long-time South Yorkshire activist. ‘The best recipe for riots is for somebody to stand up and warn of riots.’ (Professor Yaron Matras on Channel 4 News 27 November 2013) On 11 November David Blunkett gave an interview to Radio Sheffield. In
A.R.T. Kemasang examines the meaning behind a much-loved Christmas carol. It was in my 1950s pre-university years that I heard for the first time the full lyric of the famous Christmas carol. To me at the time (planning to major in English and, being an Anglophile) the idea of being given by one’s true love
To erase the political bedrock of people’s beliefs from the telling of their history is to distort their life’s work. The rewriting of history and reputation to chime with what the white-media-middle-class is ‘comfortable’ with does not just apply to Nelson Mandela,[1] it has for some years been applied in this country to Black revolutionary
Dear IRR News subscriber, This week we publish a round-up of racist attacks and convictions in the UK and in the north of Ireland over the last six months We also have a report on a demonstration at the Crown Prosecution Service by the families of those that have died in custody and details of
Last week families and campaigners demanded an end to Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) inaction over deaths in custody cases. The demonstration was called by the United Families and Friends Campaign and Stop G4S because of procrastination about whether to charge those involved in the deaths of Azelle Rodney and Jimmy Mubenga. Damning unlawful killing verdicts were
A selection of attacks with a racial element and convictions over the last six months. A few weeks ago, 24-year-old Lee James was told he will serve at last eighteen years in prison for killing Iranian refugee Bijan Ebrahimi in Bristol. Mr Ebrahimi was harassed persistently by local residents prior to his death. He was
An overview of racist attacks and convictions over the last six months in Northern Ireland. According to the most recent statistics produced by the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI), there are two racist incidents reported, and more than one incident recorded as a racist hate crime in the north of Ireland every day. In
On Friday 20 December campaigners will hold a vigil in High Wycombe to mark the birthday of Habib Ullah who died in police custody in July 2008. Habib Ullah’s wife, mother, children and siblings will be joined at High Wycombe police station by families of others killed in police custody including that of Leon Briggs,
