Next weekend Sheffield will witness a Convergence of activists campaigning against the many faces of G4S. The Convergence has been called by organisations campaigning against the activities of G4S and aims to plan how to build a more effective Stop G4S campaign. Supported and endorsed by the Boycott Israel Network, Corporate Watch, Dundee Trades Council,
European delegation goes to Ali Aarass hearing in Morocco. On 24 September, IRR executive director, Liz Fekete and vice-chair Frances Webber joined an international delegation of lawyers, scholars, human rights activists, journalists and filmmakers at the Appeal Court at Rabat-Salé to hear the long-awaited appeal of the dual Belgian-Moroccan national Ali Aarrass on terrorism charges.
Dear IRR News subscriber, This week, in a pathbreaking polemic, A. Sivanandan analyses how neoliberalism has transformed the state from serving the nation to serving global capital. Ryan Erfani-Ghettani continues in his work examining the media and assesses the latest attack by the Daily Express on EU migrants. Frances Webber reports on the recent award
From a prison cell, Talha Ahsan, fighting extradition to the US, has produced award-winning poetry. Talha Ahsan is already know as a formidable poet as well as one of the men fighting unjust extradition to the US because of the location of a computer server. Recognition of his talent came this month from the Koestler Trust
A collective of sixteen organisations has launched a campaign against current stop and search policy. The groups have sent an open letter to Home Office ministers Theresa May and Nick Herbert, and Bernard Hogan-Howe (the present Commissioner of the Metropolitan police). It highlights the racially discriminatory character of the implementation of recent stop and search
Below we reproduce a statement from Kick It Out in response to the findings of a report by the Commons’ Culture, Media and Sport (CMS) select committee. With the One Game, One Community weeks of action beginning a month today, the CMS Select Committee has announced more needs to be done to tackle discrimination in
The Daily Express’ goes on the attack against EU migrants who are destitute (and therefore criminal) or housed (and therefore benefit cheats). Last week saw the Daily Express carry on its crusade against migration from the EU, in two front-page stories aiming to show that EU migrants are criminal, and taking advantage of an easily-manipulated
Dear IRR News subscriber, This week, the IRR’s Ryan Erfani-Ghettani assesses a new publication from the rightwing think-tank Civitas. The IRR’s council of management have been busy too, our chair, Colin Prescod ‘waxes lyrical’ about the Robinson Institute exhibition which looks like a must-see. And our vice-chair, Frances Webber, has finished her book, Borderline Justice: the fight for refugee and
What are the implications of the ground-breaking report of the Hillsborough Independent Panel for the families of those who die in police, prison and psychiatric custody? Yesterday, David Cameron issued an apology to the families and victims of the Hillsborough tragedy: ‘With the weight of the new evidence in this report, it is right for
The life and work of a dynamic anti racism campaigner was recently celebrated in Dublin. Anti racism and refugee rights campaigners, past and present, gathered on 6 September in Dublin to celebrate the life and work of Josephine Olusola Olapeju Olajumoke Amuwo, whose untimely death occurred in London this August. Although she had been based
