A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. Asylum and migration 7 October: Leaked EU plans reveal proposals to deport thousands of failed asylum seekers by threatening countries refusing to take back their migrants with withdrawals of aid, trade deals and visa arrangements. The documents show
Prevent duty ‘heavy-handed and discriminatory’
In the week that the government announced new counter-extremism measures, the IRR publishes contributions from its seminar on ‘Securitisation, Schools and Preventing Extremism’, held at Garden Court Chambers on 7 October, where participants considered the consequences of a new statutory duty on public bodies to prevent non-violent extremism and whether it breached the Equality Act. Background
A French perspective on a British debate
An edited version of a speech given by the director of the Collectif Contre l’ Islamophobie en France at the joint IRR/CCIF seminar ‘Securitisation, Schools and Preventing Extremism’ For me as a teenager, the UK was the place to be. Growing up in France in the ‘90s, we Muslims saw the UK as a place
Education Not Surveillance
An edited version of a speech given by one of the UK’s most respected independent educational consultants at the joint IRR/CCIF seminar ‘Securitisation, Schools and Preventing Extremism’. First, thanks to the IRR and the Collective Against Islamophobia in France for convening this meeting and providing a valuable opportunity for colleagues working in education, as well
Calendar of racism and resistance (25 September – 8 October 2015)
A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. Asylum and migration 24 September: Beyond Borders Tyneside protest at a Home Office regional centre in Newcastle following dawn raids on families in the area. (Chronicle Live, 24 September 2015) 26 September: A young Eritrean man is picked up
IRR News 25 September – 8 October 2015
Dear IRR News subscriber, This week the IRR publishes the October 2015 issue of our journal Race & Class, with a lead article by Mark McGovern on ‘State violence and the colonial roots of collusion in Northern Ireland.’ The article is particularly timely as the Pitchford Inquiry, examining undercover police spying on family justice campaigns,
State violence and collusion in Northern Ireland
The latest issue of Race & Class features Mark McGovern’s timely analysis of the colonial roots of state violence and collusion in Northern Ireland. In 1973, Loyalist paramilitaries threw a grenade into a minibus transporting fifteen construction workers who had been building a Catholic school. Patrick Heenan, 47, took the brunt of the blast and
‘Hotspots’ for asylum applications: some things we urgently need to know
We republish here an article by Frances Webber published on 29 September on the EU Law Analysis blog. Through the mechanisms it is setting up for the relocation of refugees from Italy and Greece, the EU is trying to regain control of refugee movement in the EU. The tough screening process it is setting up
UK deaths in custody families travel to the US
Last week families of those who have died in police custody in the UK travelled to America for a week-long tour to meet families of those killed by the police in the US to start a ‘global conversation on deaths in custody’. The families of Leon Patterson, Sean Rigg, Mark Duggan, and Kingsley Burrell, along
Legal fund launched to defend the rights of Gypsies and Travellers
A legal fund has been launched by the National Federation of Gypsy Liaison Groups (NFGLG) to challenge a ‘cruel and inhumane’ policy change to the treatment of Gypsies and Travellers. Earlier this summer, a new policy was introduced with immediate effect which could have disastrous implications for Gypsies and Travellers. Under the Planning policy for