A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. Policing and criminal justice 8 May: A mental health trust and the Metropolitan Police are accused of trying to cover up alleged racism towards patients during a night in 2012 when 48 officers – some in riot gear – were
A day long conference bringing together people from a range of organisations to discuss how to hold state and corporate institutions to account. Friday 19 June 2015, 9am-5pm University of Liverpool in London campus, 33 Finsbury Square, London EC2A 1AG Participants include: Tony Bunyan – Statewatch Suresh Grover – The Monitoring Group Deborah Hargreaves – High Pay
A British Academy panel discussion exploring the issues at the nexus of race, EU law and policing. Thursday 9 July 2015, 6-7.30pm The British Academy, 10-11 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1Y 5AH Speakers: Ben Bowling – Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice, King’s College London Momodou Jallow – Vice-President, European Network Against Racism in Europe
The first of a post-election three-part series on civil liberties in the UK examines the government’s proposal to replace the Human Rights Act by a British Bill of Rights. Prime minister David Cameron was quick to don the mantle of ‘One Nation Toryism’ after his party’s election victory. But the Tories’ priorities set out in
A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. Policing and criminal justice 27 April: A Labour government would look again at the law of Joint Enterprise, Ed Miliband writes in a letter to a constituent. (The Justice Gap, 27 April 2015) 2 May: More than 3,000 police officers are
Below we reproduce an article by author Matt Carr from his blog, Infernal Machine, on the current situation in the Mediterranean. British tabloid editors have never struck me as a particularly reflective and thoughtful breed of humanity, so I doubt they will be plunged into a mood of remorseful self-analysis by the very strongly-worded suggestion from the
Attend the inquest into the death of Jeremiah Duggan who was found dead on a dual carriageway in Wiesbaden, Hesse after attending an anti-war meeting. Tuesday 19 – Thursday 21 May 2015 Coroners Court, 29 Wood Street, Barnet London EN5 4BE Related links Justice for Jeremiah Justice for Jeremiah on Facebook IRR News: German justice: from
A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. Violence and harassment 12 April: Four severed pigs’ heads are found on the doorstep of a community centre in Birmingham which is reportedly being used as a mosque. The incident comes a day after the windows of the building
On 18 April, a celebration event of the work of the Institute of Race Relations (IRR) and its Director Emeritus, Sivanandan, turned into a serious discussion on how to unite and strengthen struggles at a time of globalisation and austerity. Divided into three sessions – past, present, future – the packed afternoon covered a conspectus
A recent community campaigning book from France on deaths in police custody shows just how alarmingly similar the French experience is to that in Britain. On 21 August 2014, Abdelhak Goradia (51), an Algerian undocumented migrant, died in a police van on his way to Roissy airport, near Paris, to be deported. A police spokesperson
