Dear IRR News subscriber, Following his election victory, David Cameron was quick to promise a return to One Nation Conservatism, claiming that it was a ‘mantle that [his party] should never have lost’. But as IRR News reveals this week, this government is set to introduce a most divisive politics set to exclude people from
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Calendar of racism and resistance (8 – 21 May 2015)
A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. Policing and criminal justice 8 May: A mental health trust and the Metropolitan Police are accused of trying to cover up alleged racism towards patients during a night in 2012 when 48 officers – some in riot gear – were
Where the war on welfare and the war on migrants and refugees lead
The war on welfare has parallels with the war on migrants and refugees, both in terms of rhetoric and impact. The war on welfare claimants, ramped up over the last few years, is with a Conservative victory now set to intensify. The next phase of George Osborne’s ‘deficit reduction plan’ has already begun. And although
Race & Class radio: crime and punishment
The latest Race & Class radio is now online. The latest broadcast of Race & Class Radio is a two-part show, featuring contributors to the January 2015 issue, Victoria Brittain and Eddie Bruce-Jones. Victoria Brittain discusses the legacy of Ken Saro-Wiwa, executed along with the Ogoni Eight in 1995 by the Nigerian state after a protracted struggle
One Nation: but whose?
The first of a post-election three-part series on civil liberties in the UK examines the government’s proposal to replace the Human Rights Act by a British Bill of Rights. Prime minister David Cameron was quick to don the mantle of ‘One Nation Toryism’ after his party’s election victory. But the Tories’ priorities set out in
From Bedford to Baltimore, families demand justice
A solidarity vigil at the US Embassy last week made links between the policing of black communities in the US and UK. Hundreds gathered outside the US embassy on Tuesday 5 May to hold a vigil for Freddie Gray, whose death has sparked the latest in a series of uprisings in the US that have
IRR News 24 April – 7 May 2015
Dear IRR News subscriber, Regardless of who will be in power for the next five years, it is clear from the horror stories coming from the Mediterranean and now also from land routes through the Balkans, that migration and asylum flight are global and not national issues; a reflection of the choicelessness that the fallout of
Calendar of racism and resistance (24 April – 7 May 2015)
A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. Policing and criminal justice 27 April: A Labour government would look again at the law of Joint Enterprise, Ed Miliband writes in a letter to a constituent. (The Justice Gap, 27 April 2015) 2 May: More than 3,000 police officers are
The ongoing fiasco of privatised court interpreting services
Three years after Capita took on a Ministry of Justice contract to provide interpreting services in courts and tribunals, recent cases and an independent review have demonstrated that it is still failing, with serious consequences. Court translation On average, 700 requests are made to the courts in England and Wales every day for the use
Why we should listen when the UN condemns the UK’s ‘extremist media’
Below we reproduce an article by author Matt Carr from his blog, Infernal Machine, on the current situation in the Mediterranean. British tabloid editors have never struck me as a particularly reflective and thoughtful breed of humanity, so I doubt they will be plunged into a mood of remorseful self-analysis by the very strongly-worded suggestion from the