Over the last few months, police officers have been arrested in connection with the deaths of Sean Rigg and Kingsley Burrell, while someone died after being detained under the Mental Health Act. Sean Rigg On 27 March 2013, three police officers were arrested in connection with their evidence at the inquest into the death of
Theme: Alternative voices on integration
NHS takes over immigration detention health care
There are grounds for hope for improvement in detainees’ health treatment, but vigilance is still needed. The NHS takeover of immigration detainees’ health care was perhaps the only positive news on 1 April, when the coalition’s ‘great benefits reform’ was inaugurated at the same time that most housing, debt, employment, social security and immigration advice
Converging against G4S
Stop G4S campaigners will hold a second convergence in London to coordinate activities against the multinational. Human rights campaigners and activists working as a coalition have organised a second day of workshops and discussion ‘dedicated to developing the campaign against G4S and preventing them from putting profit before people.’ Workshops will be held on subjects
State intelligence and the European far Right
Can European security services and law enforcement agencies be entrusted with policing the far Right? Far-right and neo-Nazi violence – on the increase across Europe – is the subject of ongoing research by the Institute of Race Relations which releases today an interim report on the security services’ approach to the far Right in Austria,
Hidden stories of the Stephen Lawrence Inquiry
A talk by an advisor to Sir William Macpherson in the Stephen Lawrence Inquiry. Sunday 14 April 2013, 7.30pm MIC Centre, 81-103 Euston Street, London NW1 2EZ Speaker: Richard Stone RELATED LINKS Jewish Socialist Group MIC Centre
Cuts, crime and racialisation
In the April 2013 issue of Race & Class leading UK thinkers, in a special section on Cuts, crime and racialisation, examine how neoliberalism, at a time of austerity, changes the very nature of racism and criminal justice. The young unemployed, often excluded from every institution and avenue, are unwanted. The dragnet of Joint Enterprise,
Second Stop G4S convergence
The second convergence of the Stop G4S campaign. Saturday 6 April 2013, 11-6pm Room 3B, University of London Union (ULU), Malet Street, London WC1E 7HY Workshops include: Contract procurement Contract monitoring G4S’ partners Shareholders Related links Download a copy of the agenda Stop G4S Stop G4S on Twitter Stop G4S on Facebook
Calls to sign joint enterprise petition
Campaigners are calling for signatures on a new petition which calls on David Cameron to reform joint enterprise laws. A new petition by the campaigning group, Joint Enterprise Not Guilty by Association (JENGbA), calls on the prime minister to ‘Help get rid of the 300-year old law that is imprisoning our children’. According to the
Double standards on International Women’s Day
Rights for women extend only as far as the immigration and asylum system allows. When the first International Women’s Day was marked, in 1911, well over a million people demonstrated, campaigning for the right to vote, to end discrimination, to work, to be trained and to hold public office. Since then, its existence has steadily been popularised, to
Miliband, migration and the market
IRR News continues its discussion with A. Sivanandan about Miliband’s policies. Have you changed your view in any way given Miliband’s party political broadcast and Yvette Cooper’s speech on 7 March? You seemed in December to have some hopes that Labour under Miliband might be somewhat more progressive. (Read the interview here: ‘Miliband’s progress?‘) No