A 21-year-old Preston man has been sentenced to eight years in jail for the killing of Shezan Umarji in July 2006. Liam McKerney was found guilty of manslaughter at Preston Crown Court in a majority verdict and two other men – his brother Kieran and friend Lee Moore – were cleared of murder and manslaughter.
Theme: Climate
Anti-Zionist Jews fight anti-Semitism charge
An action against the accusation of anti-Semitism brought by a prominent Jewish anti-Zionist in the UK has been settled out of court, but in Germany, the appeal court in Frankfurt recently upheld an accusation that an anti-Zionist holocaust survivor was in fact anti-Semitic and suffering from self-hatred. In the UK, in July 2007, Michael Ezra
Traveller death marked by drama
Cwmni’r Frân Wen, a professional educational theatre company, has produced a new play about Johnny Delaney, who was murdered in 2003 on the outskirts of Ellesmere Port, when a gang of youths reacted towards his Irish accent and attacked him. The theatre project, a Theatre in Education Project (with follow-up workshop and a cross-curricular work
IRR News develops new ‘learning the lessons’ workshops
Practical workshops, learning from past struggles against racism, are being organised by the Institute of Race Relations (IRR) for newly arrived refugee/asylum seeker and migrant groups. Because of the success of the conference and a series of seminars held in 2006 and demand from new user groups, the IRR has received funding to run a
Lewisham ’77: success or failure?
Thirty years ago, over five thousand protestors took to the streets to prevent a march of five hundred National Front supporters, protected by five thousand police, from getting through Lewisham, south London. The decision by the National Front (NF) to hold a march through Lewisham in August 1977 divided the opposition as to tactics, like
Scotland rallies against terrorism
Following a spate of racial violence against Muslims in Scotland in response to the attack on Glasgow airport, various Muslim community groups are organising a ‘Scotland United Against Terror’ rally in Glasgow’s George Square this weekend. The week following the attack on Glasgow airport has seen a number of violent incidents taking place against Muslims
The hounding of David Oluwale
An important book investigating one of the first known Black deaths in custody – that of David Oluwale – has been written. Thirty-eight years ago to the day, on 4 May 1969, the body of David Oluwale was pulled from the River Aire in Leeds. Two years later, in November 1971, two police officers –
Roll call of deaths of asylum seekers and undocumented migrants, 1989-2010
IRR has, since 1989, been recording the deaths of asylum seekers and undocumented migrants – two of the most vulnerable sections of our society – as a result of attempting to enter the UK, self-harm, denial of medical treatment, destitution, hazardous working conditions or racist attacks. Forced by circumstances beyond their control to seek a
And Still I Rise
A frank and affecting account of the enduring destruction wrought on a mother and her family, first by a racially-motivated murder and then by the racist reaction of the Metropolitan police that meant it was not investigated properly. The Lawrence family’s compounded tragedy eventually resulted in a landmark admission in the form of the Macpherson
Loyal to racism
A new book on Irish racism explains how racial violence in the North cannot be combated without dismantling state racism. Anyone who reads IRR News will be aware of the serious level of racial violence in the North of Ireland. In fact it was Bill Rolston writing for IRR News who first explained how to