The latest edition of Race & Class includes Professor Phil Scraton’s account about the fight for truth around the Hillsborough Disaster of 1989. Last year, the Hillsborough Independent Panel released its findings into the Hillsborough tragedy that cost ninety-six people their lives, in which it catalogued an institutional cover-up that denied the voice of the
Dear IRR News subscriber, Next week as part of Black History Month, on Thursday 17 October, the IRR is hosting the launch of Footprints, a book of poetry by the radical black Caribbean poet Peter Blackman. If you would like to join us, email events@irr.org.uk and we will reserve you a place. We are also
Dear IRR News subscriber, This week we are publicising a forthcoming public meeting, hosted by the IRR and the Mannheim Centre for the Study of Criminology and Criminal Justice (LSE), on campaigns to uncover the truth about deaths linked to the actions of the state. The main speaker at the meeting, on 27 November 2013,
The IRR is hosting a public meeting to discuss family campaigns for justice. On Wednesday 27 November 2013, the IRR and the Mannheim Centre for the Study of Criminology and Criminal Justice (LSE) are hosting a meeting to discuss family campaigns against the state to discover the truth about the deaths of loved ones. The
An important meeting hosted by the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Gypsies, Travellers and Roma will be held on 28 October – Czech National Day. The meeting will show a short film documenting the impact of nationalism on Romani communities in ther Czech Republic as the neo-Nazis march every week into the neighbourhoods where Roma live,
Dear IRR News subscriber, This week we reproduce a letter written by the StopWatch Youth Group and we also have a special Race & Class offer for Black History Month. In news from across the UK, a Nigerian family were targeted in a racist attack in Belfast in which a hatchet was thrown through their
Below we reproduce a letter from the StopWatch Youth Group to the Home Secretary on ‘what stop and search really means for young people and why this consultation is only the beginning’. Dear Home Secretary, Over the past three years, the StopWatch Youth Group has been campaigning, educating and advocating for changes to stop and
Dear IRR News subscriber, This week we have a report on a meeting held by police to report back on their collaboration with the UK Border Agency on Operation Nexus and we also have a report on a police operation in Woolwich following the murder of Lee Rigby. And news from across the UK, police have
A recent meeting with Met police failed to reassure migrant rights groups and activists that Operation Nexus is not harmful. Operation Nexus, launched a year ago as a collaboration between the Metropolitan police and the UK Border Agency was designed to clear foreign criminals off the streets of London and send them home. Immigration officers
Is racial profiling being carried out by counter-terrorism police in South London following the death of Lee Rigby? On 1 June 2013, a group of friends driving through Woolwich in the early evening were intercepted by police officers apparently from the Met’s Counter Terrorism command, SO15. According to youth worker Husani Williams, who was driving
