Hours before he set out on his murderous spree, Anders Behring Breivik – the man who shot dead 68 young Socialists at a youth camp on Utoeya island after mounting a bomb attack on the centre of Oslo – placed a PDF of his 1,500 page political manifesto online. Entitled 2083: A European Declaration of
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Attacks on Islamic institutions increase
As part of ongoing research on racial violence in the UK, the IRR has documented 21 attacks on Islamic institutions reported by the media in 2011: at least one incident, on average, every ten days. These attacks exclude confrontations where people have been physically assaulted, except where they took place alongside acts of vandalism. Incidents
Swiss campaign against double punishment
An interview with Heiner Busch, a migrants’ rights activist, who works in the secretariat of Solidarité sans Frontières (SoSF) in Berne and is engaged in the ‘Double no’ (2xNo) campaign. Frances Webber: In the UK, the debate about the rights of foreign national prisoners is getting more heated. Why did Swiss campaigners launch the ‘Double
Belgian prison teacher vindicated
A Belgian prison teacher has won a two year battle against a work ban on security grounds. Luk Vervaet, who had taught in prisons for five years when he was summarily dismissed from his post in August 2009, was a regular commentator on prison issues for national newspapers and had collaborated with academic research projects
Northern Ireland detention centre opens
Larne House, the first detention centre in Northern Ireland, has opened. The opening of the first purpose-built immigration detention centre in Northern Ireland this month, is a sad day as it will expand the detention estate once again. But we can resist the simultaneous expansion of our own mental barriers against human equality and freedom,
Mary Dines 1927-2011
We have lost one of our greatest fighters for racial justice and human rights and, because she was so self-effacing, you may not even have heard of her. Apocryphal stories about Mary abound. There was the time when would-be immigrants from the Indian subcontinent in the late 1960s and early 1970s arrived at Heathrow with
Still spooked
Greater emphasis on the Channel project in the revised Prevent strategy gives much cause for concern. In October 2009, the IRR’s report Spooked: how not to prevent violent extremism first drew attention to concerns over Prevent’s gathering of information on individuals thought to be on a pathway to radicalisation. Now an ongoing research project on
ID:id exhibition at the Stephen Lawrence Centre
A new exhibition at the Stephen Lawrence Centre continues its tradition of inspiring and motivating young people. An exhibition of pop-inspired self portraits by students from Abbey Manor College, Lewisham is being held at the Stephen Lawrence Centre from 28 June until 11 August 2011. Inspired by pop artists such as Andy Warhol, students explored
The new geographies of racism: Plymouth
Research published today by the Institute of Race Relations investigates how geographies of racism throughout the UK are changing in a wider climate of economic austerity, shifting patterns of migration and settlement and against the backdrop of new forms of racism exacerbated by national policies. The IRR’s first investigation, part of an ongoing examination of
Tamils deported, Iraqis win reprieve
The government has been organising deportations of Sri Lankans and Iraqis despite the dangers they face on return – but has met with resistance. On 16 June, just two days after the screening of Channel 4’s shocking exposé of the war crimes against Sri Lanka’s Tamils in ‘Sri Lanka’s killing fields’ and the day after