Dear IRR News subscriber, In the final IRR News bulletin of 2015, we report on a recent event in Hackney, held in memory of the late anti-colonialist activist, broadcaster, playwright, teacher, artist and actor Jan Carew. Launching his autobiography Episodes in My Life, Jan’s wife, Joy, discussed his political organising in Guyana, his role as
Calendar of racism and resistance (4-17 December 2015)
A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. Policing & criminal justice 3 December: Babacar Guèye, a 27-year-old Senegalese man, dies after being shot five times by a police officer in Rennes in north-west France. Guèye attempted to self-harm with a bread knife before his friend
Remembering Jan Carew: the gentle revolutionary
A book launch at the Claudia Jones Organisation in Hackney for two books by the late Jan Carew was an inspirational event. Jan Carew was a giant of a man – an artist, an author, a poet, a teacher and he was very tall too. The occasion was the publication of two books, one a
Calendar of racism and resistance 2015
A reference tool for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe in 2015. POLICING AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE 11 January: Campaign groups Justice 4 Leon and the Faruk Ali Justice Campaign march together through Luton to show a ‘united front’, demanding justice for Leon Briggs and Faruk Ali. (Luton on Sunday, 11 January
IRR News 20 November – 3 December 2015
Dear IRR News subscriber, As the UK bombing campaign of Syria begins, the fall-out will no doubt be experienced in terms of the further miltarisation of Europe’s borders, the creation of yet more refugees and an increase in anti-Muslim violence. Already in the wake of the Paris tragedy and the conflation in the public mind
After Paris
An overview of anti-Muslim violence and abuse in the UK since the Paris attacks. The terrorist attacks in Paris last month, killing 130 people and injuring 368 more, have been followed by anti-Muslim violence across Europe. In the UK, sixty-four religious or racially motivated hate crimes were reported to the police in Scotland in the week
Calendar of racism and resistance (20 November – 3 December 2015)
A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. Policing and criminal justice 20 November: The House of Commons Justice Committee recommends the scrapping of the criminal courts charge in its report: Criminal courts charge. Second Report of Session 2015–16. Download it here. 23 November: The Centre for
Donald Kenrick, 1929 – 2015
Marc Willers QC, remembers one of the UK’s foremost authorities on Romani Studies and campaigner for Gypsy rights. It was with great sadness that I learnt that Dr Donald Kenrick had recently passed away. I first met Donald over twenty years ago, whilst he was acting as an unqualified planning consultant for a Romani Gypsy
IRR News 6 – 19 November 2015
Dear IRR News subscriber, The carnage in Paris was unbearable. But now, amidst the horror and the gloom, we must also contend with the anti-immigration responses of some of Europe’s elected leaders (see our regular calendar of racism and resistance). The leaders of Hungary, Slovakia, Poland, Bavaria and the Czech Republic, have come out all
Calendar of racism and resistance (6 – 19 November 2015)
A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. Policing and criminal justice 5 November: Ropinder Singh calls for an inquiry into a protest outside the Indian High Commission after he was arrested and allegedly had his turban grabbed and thrown to the ground; fifteen others were