A paper[1], Prevent and the Children’s Rights Convention, published today by the Institute of Race Relations supports the NUT’s call[2] for a more rational debate on the Prevent duty in schools. In order to encourage an informed and rational debate on the new duty placed on schools to prevent children being drawn in to terrorism,[3] the IRR
The January 2016 issue of Race & Class is a special issue on the theme of ‘reparative histories’. In ‘Reparative histories: radical narratives of “race” and resistance’, Cathy Bergin and Anita Rupprecht, organisers of a conference on this theme in 2014, collect a series of essays investigating the complex interactions of history, race, agency, memory
An event to mark the fortieth anniversary of the death of Paul Robeson. Friday 12 February 2016, 6-8.30pm Marx Memorial Library, 37A Clerkenwell Green, London EC1R 0DU Speakers include: Tayo Aluko – writer and performer of the award winning play – Call Mr. Robeson Hakim Adi – Black radical scholar Glenroy Watson – President of
A day of action for the free movement of peoples and the demilitarisation of borders. Saturday 6 February 2016 Actions taking place: Rabat in Morocco – organised by sub-Saharan and Moroccan associations as well as activists and Human Rights initiatives in different Moroccan cities, such as the Conseil des Migrants, Africa Light, Alecma and AMDH Ceuta – activists and organisations like Podemos
A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. Policing & criminal justice 17 December: The Supreme Court rules that ‘random’ stop and search powers have adequate safeguards in place and that the powers bring ’great benefits to the public’. (Guardian, 17 December 2015) 22 December: The Independent Police
The IRR is selling off remaindered copies of books it published (with the Oxford University Press) between 1958 and 1975, many of which are out of print. If there are particular titles you would like to get hold of contact info@irr.org.uk and we will let you know if we can supply them and at what
Media stigmatisation of poor multicultural neighbourhoods of Europe as strongholds of Islamist terrorism and organised crime is lending legitimacy to a more coercive, more militarised style of policing. The Home Office is currently reviewing legal protection for police officers who shoot to kill as well as considering whether to transfer the lead role in fighting
Arun Kundnani is delivering the 2016 Corin Redgrave Memorial Lecture. Saturday 23 January 2016, 2.30pm Small Hall, The Camden Centre, Bidborough Street, London WC1H 9AU Speaker: Arun Kundnani is the author of The End of Tolerance: Racism in 21st Century Britain and The Muslims Are Coming Related links Peace & Progress Download a flyer here (word doc,
The Campaign Opposing Police Surveillance (COPS) is holding a public meeting. Thursday 21 January 2016, 6.30-8.30pm Diskus Room, Unite, 128 Theobald’s Road, London WC1X 8TN Speakers include: Kate Wilson Janet Alder Jules Carey Stafford Scott Lois Austin (Chair) Related links Campaign Opposing Police Surveillance (COPS) View details of the meeting here View a flyer here
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
