Dear IRR News subscriber, Violent police arrests and discriminatory police practices across the country continue to alarm, as our calendar of racism and resistance documents – a subject also touched upon, albeit historically and in the context of class, in Phil Scraton’s scathing piece for IRR News on Boris Johnson’s repetition of Hillsborough lies. Last
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School Exclusions: Marketing the Marginalised
Recent initiatives on school exclusions miss the point, ‘alternative provision’ has been transformed into a business opportunity. According to A. Sivanandan, ‘the adult occupies the world of the child far more than the child occupies the world of the adult.’ [1] Nowhere is this statement truer than in the realm of education. The British education
Green New Deal – panacea or problem?
As the notion of a Green New Deal rapidly spreads as an answer to capitalism in US and UK media and political circles, our lead article in July 2019 asks if Green capitalism can propose a real solution to the ecological crisis and the human crises of poverty, austerity, immigration and racism. Green capitalism and
Calendar of racism and resistance (3 – 16 July 2019)
A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. POLICE AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM 4 July: A study by the University of Essex, based on analysis of six live trials of facial recognition technology by the Metropolitan police in Soho, Romford and the Westfield shopping centre in
Boris Johnson: Liverpool, lies and bigotry
In this article Phil Scraton recalls a defining month in the career of Boris Johnson that laid bare his deep-seated prejudices, disregard for factual accuracy and self-serving arrogance. On 7 October 2004 Ken Bigley, a civil engineer, was beheaded in Iraq by Islamic extremists. Just two days later a respectful silence was held in his
IRR News (19 June – 2 July 2019)
Dear IRR News subscriber, The law-breaking captain of a pirate ship, she is not! But that is how far-right interior minister Matteo Salvini described German national Carola Rackete, captain of the SAR NGO vessel, Sea Watch 3 who, in a series of dramatic events, was arrested, placed under house arrest, then released only to be
Sink Without Trace: migrant deaths in the Mediterranean
An exhibition that bears witness to migrant deaths in the Mediterranean challenges us to confront the UK’s complicity in Europe’s war on asylum. Two image-events bookended Refugee Week 2019. The first was artist-provocateur Christoph Büchel’s ‘installation’ of the migrant shipwreck known as The Boat of Innocents in Venice’s Arsenale. Rechristening it Barca Nostra (Our Boat) was
BAME women fight to retain refuge
In a major blow for one of the few BAME women-led organisations left in the UK, Newham council has decommissioned London Black Women’s Project’s refuges for BAME women escaping violence. With one in four women in the UK experiencing domestic violence in the course of a lifetime, the scale of violence against women in the
Calendar of Racism and Resistance (19 June – 2 July 2019)
A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. ASYLUM, MIGRATION AND CITIZENSHIP ASYLUM AND MIGRANT RIGHTS 19 June: The Supreme Court rules that the Home Office acted illegally in requiring EU citizens from eastern Europe to register after 2009 to have residence rights, making hundreds of
IRR News (5 – 18 June 2019)
Dear IRR News subscriber, This week marks the second anniversary of the Grenfell Tower Fire which claimed seventy-two lives and displaced and traumatised hundreds of others. As we report in our regular calendar of racism and resistance, the occasion was marked by Grenfell United, which represents the survivors and bereaved, by the projected illuminations of