On 7 September, an unnamed Polish man died in hospital after self-harming at Harmondsworth detention centre. Twelve days later a Chinese man was found dead at Dungavel in Scotland. Two deaths in twelve days making a total of four deaths already this year. The first man was found at the Mitie-run[1] centre in west London
Dear IRR News subscriber, Anger is mounting that Dame Elish Angiolini’s report on deaths in custody, widely believed to provide evidence of disproportionality in BAME restraint deaths, has not been released. Home Secretary Amber Rudd has been sitting on the report since the Summer of 2016 and as Stafford Scott points out, the result is
A resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. Asylum and migration 30 June: A report on the situation of unaccompanied refugee children in Greece and ways to improve it, by the International Rescue Committee and METAdrasi, is published. Read the report here. (Are You Syrious, 19 July 2017)
A vital resource for those interested in the history of anti-racist campaigning has now been made available on the IRR’s website. Seventy-two issues of the magazine CARF published between 1991 and 2003 are now available to download free of charge here. CARF reflected and spoke to the activist movements in the UK over that time,
Dear IRR News subscriber, Just a quick email to let you know about an important piece the News Service has just published: ‘Fighting fire‘ in which IRR Chair Colin Prescod with Daniel Renwick examine the Grenfell Tower inferno highlighting the contradictions between community self-help and resistance and an uncaring state. And just to remind you the
The Grenfell Tower inferno throws up all the contradictions between community self-help and resistance and an uncaring state. Fire this time These walls bear witness. ‘Justice’, ‘pity the poor’, ‘fuck the local authority’s Tenants Management Organisation’s, gentrification serving, class-cleansing deception’, they shout. And poignantly, still faintly echoing down the years, from half a century ago,
Are you the person we need to develop Race & Class? We are looking for a dynamic and motivated person with experience of print and online publishing to assist the editors of this quarterly journal − with a worldwide reputation for incisive but radical coverage of state racisms, imperialism, globalisation, the war on terror, black history
Dear IRR News subscriber, The upsurge in Islamophobic and other racist incidents recently acknowledged by police forces across the country is certainly borne out by IRR’s monitoring of local and national media. In order to assist readers dissect patterns and trends, we have reorganised our calendar of racism and resistance. We hope that breaking down
A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. Asylum & migration 26 June: The Independent Monitoring Board (IMB) for Yarl’s Wood Immigration Removal Centre (IRC) publishes its Annual Report, which finds the centre still needs improvement. Download it here. (Bedford Today, 28 June 2017) 28 June:
Although the recent conviction of aristocrat 4th Viscount St Davids for ‘menacing’ online hate crimes against Gina Miller rightly received widespread national publicity, many other similar crimes slip by quietly if local media outlets do not publish the details. Magistrates courts, where the vast majority of hate crimes are prosecuted do not publish individual trial
