A new report shows that black and minority ethnic children are far more likely to be permanently excluded from schools. The Office of the Children’s Commissioner has warned that schools are failing their Black and Gypsy, Roma and Traveller pupils, among others. The findings are published in a report, They Go The Extra Mile, which
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IRR News 8-14 March 2013
Dear IRR News subscriber, This week, A. Sivanandan continues his analysis of Miliband on ‘immigration’ policy and Jon Burnett reveals the hypocrisy behind recent Women’s Day celebrations. IRR News readers may also be interested in the launch of a new book on Eslanda Robeson being hosted by the IRR on 16 April in London (the
Double standards on International Women’s Day
Rights for women extend only as far as the immigration and asylum system allows. When the first International Women’s Day was marked, in 1911, well over a million people demonstrated, campaigning for the right to vote, to end discrimination, to work, to be trained and to hold public office. Since then, its existence has steadily been popularised, to
Miliband, migration and the market
IRR News continues its discussion with A. Sivanandan about Miliband’s policies. Have you changed your view in any way given Miliband’s party political broadcast and Yvette Cooper’s speech on 7 March? You seemed in December to have some hopes that Labour under Miliband might be somewhat more progressive. (Read the interview here: ‘Miliband’s progress?‘) No
IRR News 1-7 March 2013
Dear IRR News subscriber, This week, Jenny Bourne reports on a forthcoming book launch being hosted by Race & Class. Eslanda: the large and unconventional life of Mrs. Paul Robeson is written by Race & Class editorial working committee member and leading black feminist historian Barbara Ransby. Please note the event, which takes place on
London Against Racism
A new oral history project on anti-racist activity in London wants to record the experiences of those active in anti-racist struggles. Eastside Community Heritage, an oral history charity, is recording and archiving oral history interviews with those involved in key anti-racist events such as the Battle of Lewisham and movements like the Rock Against Racism.
Meet Eslanda
A meeting to launch the definitive biography of Mrs Paul Robeson written by a leading black American feminist. Barbara Ransby is pretty special. For she is an African-American who is also a feminist, also a historian, also on the Left and, most unusually, an academic who remains an activist. Part of her life’s work is
IRR News 22-28 February 2013
Dear IRR News subscriber, Apologies if you have not received our weekly emails over the last few weeks, we have had a few problems, which I hope, have now been rectified. This week, we carry a blog post reproduced with permission of JENGbA about one family’s experience of the joint enterprise laws. And Jenny Bourne
The new wasteland
It is poverty not migration that is changing the nature of Britain’s towns and cities. If you want to feel and smell austerity, go to Hatfield – in leafy Hertfordshire, with the rolling hills that EM Forster loved. It provides a microcosm of the changing social geography of Britain today.[1] Hatfield was, until the 1990s,
When I thought all hope was lost, then came JENGbA
Below we reproduce a blog by an African-Caribbean mother who recounts the family nightmare of navigating the criminal justice system which was only relieved when she made contact with the campaigning organisation Joint Enterprise – Not Guilty by Association (JENGbA). The day was Thursday 13 December 2012. It was cold and windy. I had just