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,
Dear IRR News subscriber, The latest Race & Class radio broadcast is now available to download, featuring Avery Gordon’s interview with Phil Scraton on the Hillsborough disaster and the struggle for justice. In other news, the Independent Police Complaints Commission has outlined the parameters of its investigation into the death of Leon Briggs, which happened
Looking for a Christmas gift? This month, the IRR offers Catching History on the Wing for a discounted price, plus a free issue of Race & Class relating to the work of A. Sivanandan, in celebration of his ninetieth birthday. The IRR is offering for £10 (plus P&P) Catching History on the Wing, a collection
The latest broadcast of Race & Class radio is now available to download. On 28 November 2013, Avery Gordon interviewed Professor Phil Scraton for the latest broadcast of Race & Class radio. Phil Scraton, author of Hillsborough: The Truth, was a member of the Hillsborough Independent Panel and the primary author of its ground-breaking report
Dear IRR News subscriber, At a historic meeting organised by Race & Class and the Mannheim Centre for the Study of Criminology and Criminal Justice last night, Phil Scraton discussed the Hillsborough disaster and black campaigners against deaths in custody found common cause with the Hillsborough Family Support Campaign. Chandra Frank and Serginho Roosblad discuss
The case of Habib Ignaoua shows the government’s unconcern about the collateral damage to families and the rule of law caused by its determination to keep ‘undesirables’ out. 53-year-old Ignaoua fled Tunisia in 1994. He came to Britain in 2004 and sought asylum, claiming detention and torture by the Tunisian authorities, whose military courts had
At a historic meeting organised by Race & Class and the LSE’s Mannheim Centre for Criminology, Phil Scraton discussed the Hillsborough disaster and black campaigners against deaths in police custody found common cause with the Hillsborough Family Support campaign. RELATED LINKS Buy a copy of October’s Race & Class, featuring Phil Scraton’s article on Hillsborough, here Race
More and more voices are speaking out against the annual spectacle of blackface ‘St Nicholas helpers’. We have written before about the Dutch blackface tradition of Sinterklaas’ (St Nicholas’) ‘helper’ Zwarte Piet (Black Pete). This year, though, the debate about Zwarte Piet — dressed in a golliwog-style wig, pronounced red lips and gold earrings —
Today, the Institute of Race Relations (IRR) enters the debate on how best to combat extremism by publishing two thought provoking pieces on IRR News. Anti-racism and anti-fascism should be core values of a liberal and democratic society. But what if the contrary happens? What if anti-racism and anti-fascism are treated in policy and law
Anti-extremism frameworks, popular in policy and academic circles, are masking the multi-dimensional and pan-European nature of contemporary fascism and the role of the state. Not since the early 1990s, and the pogroms at Hoyerswerda and Rostock have Europe’s far-right movements posed such a tangible threat to the safety of racial and religious minorities. In truth,
