An update on BAME, refugee and migrant deaths in custody since September 2014. To answer demands from supporters of the Black Lives Matter movement in the UK for up-to-date statistics on deaths in custody in the UK, the IRR has been trying to collect information on deaths which have taken place since its last reckoning
The Black Lives Matter movement has provoked many revelations and discussions of institutional racism in various fields, not only criminal justice but also education, sport, media and culture; we cover a selection of these below. Our regular calendar of racism and resistance can be viewed here. PROTESTS AND POLICE RESPONSE See also anti-fascism and far
A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. News stories related to the Black Lives Matter movement have been compiled in a separate calendar, view here. HEALTH, POLICY AND RESEARCH – COVID-19 RELATED 5 June: The Government Equalities Office announces a review into the government’s response to
The world is waking up to the brutality of police racism following the killing of George Floyd, which has instigated mass protests of resistance. Here we publish a collection of Race & Class articles (all free to download for the next six weeks) on policing and the carceral state in the US and the UK,
Dear IRR News subscriber, A ‘fascist speech’ verging on ‘a declaration of war against American citizens’. That’s how US president Donald Trump’s 1 June speech, where he invoked the threat of the Insurrection Act (1807) to suppress protests in 350+ US cities over the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, is viewed in America.
A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. We have incorporated the Covid-19 roundup of racism, health, policing and civil liberties into the calendar of racism and resistance, which we believe makes developments during this period clearer and easier to understand. News stories related to the response to
The death of George Floyd in Minneapolis on 25 May, after a policeman knelt on his neck for nearly nine minutes as he pleaded he could not breathe, sparks protests across the UK and Europe. This roundup details those protests and related developments. Public protests 30-31 May: Over the weekend of 30-31 May, demonstrations take
A leaked document reveals the government is preparing to withdraw its emergency coronavirus funding for homeless accommodation – a fleeting reprieve that rescued many, whilst those with fewer rights remained destitute. At this juncture, Jessica Perera reviews an important book that interrogates vagrancy as a social crisis that urgently needs addressing. Bekki Perriman’s anthology Doorways:
The workplace struggles of precarious and largely invisiblised migrant workers in public institutions against exploitation by outsourcing giants such as Sodexo are not only important in themselves but also a vital part of the fight against racist border policies, argues Laura Wormington. At 5am on a frosty Tuesday morning, 19 November 2019, hundreds of Sodexo
Dear IRR News subscriber, Dangerous ‘race’ thinking is on the rise, warns black health activist Wayne Farah, in a think-piece for IRR News this week, that warns that the New Right and the ‘race realists’ are attempting to use public inquiries into Covid-19 excess deaths as a battlefield for the normalisation of scientific and cultural racism. Whether
