Below we publish tributes to Cedric Robinson. Tom Denyer As intellectual careers go, Professor Cedric Robinson’s serves as a textbook. His first priority, teaching, relied on close, generous engagement with the mind of the individual student. He still found time for disciplined, objective, assiduous research and writing. His genuine interest in the work of his
Activist and poet Sam Berkson examines grassroots resistance to the social and political crisis in Hungary. On 15 March, a national holiday commemorating the revolution of 1848, some 50,000 people pressed into the rain-soaked square in front of Parliament to listen to speeches, sing together and shout for the removal of Prime Minister Viktor Orbán. The teachers,
We reproduce below A. Sivanandan’s eulogy on Muhammad Ali on the day he lost to Joe Frazier in March 1971. Tonight the black world weeps that their king has passed away. But tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow… every black man will have become his own king – for that is the legacy that Muhammad Ali
Dear IRR News subscriber, The Immigration Act 2016, which received royal assent on 12 May, is the latest part of the government’s drive to create a hostile environment for irregular migrants and ‘refused’ asylum seekers. And on IRR News this week, Baljeet Sandhu and Jennifer Ang discuss how this legislation will exclude ‘young undocumented care
A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. Asylum & migration 9 May: A 26-year-old Syrian refugee is shot in the kidney and wounded by Slovakian border guards on the border between Slovakia and Hungary, near the town of Velky Meder. The woman is in a
The Institute of Race Relations, based in London’s Kings Cross, is giving away surplus duplicated material and invites people to take the chance of adding to their collections. You will be able to view and take away material from IRR’s ground floor (2-6 Leeke Street, London WC1X 9HS) on Thursday 16 June, 2-7pm. Unfortunately material cannot be
An important conference on securing justice for young people with precarious citizenship is taking place in London on 1 June, organised by the Migrant and Refugee Children’s Legal Unit at Islington Law Centre in conjunction with Birkbeck College. What is precarious citizenship? Significant numbers of young people who are settled in the UK (estimated conservatively at
Nearly 300 people face criminal charges for aiding refugees in Denmark in September 2015, and the government continues to create a hostile environment by cracking down on migration. The rise in humanitarian and political initiatives in solidarity with asylum seekers and refugees that we have seen across Europe in the past year has been reflected
Below we interview a member of the Danish group MedMenneskeSmuglerne (‘With the Human Traffickers’), about the criminal charges of ‘human trafficking’ those who acted in solidarity with refugees now face. Reem Abu-Hayyeh (RAH): You are a part of a group called MedMenneskeSmuglerne based in Denmark. Could you please tell us a bit about the group? Reem El-Awwad
Dear IRR News subscriber, Saturday 7 May is a day of action against immigration detention, and solidarity with detained people. And on IRR News this week, academics Monish Bhatia and Victoria Canning examine two recent reviews of immigration detention – one into the Welfare in Detention of Vulnerable Persons and one into Concerns about Yarl’s
