X-raying migrant children to determine age and proposals to monitor all communications, as well as the proposed secret justice measures, further target ‘suspect communities’. The pilot x-ray scheme to assess the age of young asylum seekers whose claims to be children are disbelieved, which started at the end of March with virtually no notice, has
Glasgow: the evictions begin
Over 100 asylum seekers are facing eviction in Glasgow, after Serco was contracted to manage their accommodation. In January 2011, immigration minister Damien Green apologised for the ‘inappropriateness’ of government proposals to evict hundreds of asylum seekers from Glasgow, turfing them onto the streets if they refused to accept accommodation outside the city.[1] Fast forward
European anti-Islam demonstration flops in Denmark
An eyewitness analyses the English and Danish Defence Leagues’ failure to mobilise a pan-European movement against Islam. One of the largest police presences in recent Danish history was ready and waiting when extreme-right and Islamophobic groups from all over Europe met on 31 March in Denmark’s second largest city, Aarhus, to demonstrate against Islam. The
Incendiary black working-class heroes
A book on black British strugglers opens up new vistas. The other week I wandered down to Paradise Square, a vestige of Victorian Sheffield where the Chartists held their tempestuous meetings over a century and a half ago. There, on those cobbles, the black revolutionary William Cuffay, his parents from St. Kitts but he himself
Children first and foremost
A new resource on Gypsies and Travellers written by young children. Gypsy and Traveller children living at Waterside Park in Worcester have produced their own book, A Kushtie Place to Live – don’t judge us until you know us. Their photos and captions illustrate where and how they live, what they like to do and
IRR News 23-29 March 2012
Dear IRR News subscriber, Welcome to the new look weekly email and new IRR website which we hope you like. Some of you might have missed some articles which we have published over the last few weeks, two pieces by the IRR’s Frances Webber, Xenophobia drives government assault on European court and Algerian deportees win
The strange xenophobic world of Coalition integration policy
What does the Coalition’s new integration policy signify? According to Eric Pickles the Communities and Local Government secretary, 21 February, marked the death of multiculturalism in England. We are now entering an era of ‘integration’. The coalition policy statement, ‘Creating the conditions for integration’, was launched after being trailed by stories placed by think-tanks with
A local anti-fascist history
The pamphlet, The Fight Against fascism in Brighton & the South Coast is the published version of a talk by veteran left-wing socialist and anti-fascist, Tony Greenstein. This is not a linear, chronological history of the opposition to fascism in the towns along the south coast, but retains all of the asides, diversions and zigzags
Calling the state to account
Liz Fekete examines the role and importance of grassroots monitoring groups today in Europe. This article was originally written as a contribution to a publication in which anti-racists across Europe marked the tenth anniversary of ReachOut, an anti-racist monitoring group in Berlin. Why do we need independent groups to monitor racist attacks?[1] On the tenth
IRR News 16-23 March 2012
Dear IRR News subscriber, Welcome to the the new look weekly email and website which we hope you like. As we get used to our new website, please bear with us as there may be minor issues with accessing content but do let us know if you experience any problems and what you think of