A video of Professor Phil Scraton’s lecture on the Hillsborough struggle for justice, delivered last year at the London School of Economics, is now available. On 27 November 2013, the IRR and the Mannheim Centre for the Study of Criminology and Criminal Justice (LSE) hosted a meeting to discuss family campaigns against the state to
The progress of another punitive Bill which strips away legal protection from migrants and will increase homelessness, ill health and destitution, seems for now to have tri-partisan support. The Immigration Bill finished its passage through the House of Commons on 30 January. The third reading ought to have been a last chance for MPs to
The Tories plan a systematic stream of populist measures on migration and welfare benefits in the run up to the election, and there appears to be no opposition. According to the Daily Mail, last month, the Conservative Party’s election strategist Lynton Crosby suggested the party begin producing ‘a new policy to curb immigrants and benefits’
A peaceful gathering to demand the release of refugee women and to shine a light on Yarl’s Wood and indefinite detention in the UK. Thursday 13 February 2014, 6pm Home Office, 2 Marsham Street, London SW1P 4DF Bring torches, candles and bike lights. Speakers include: Meltem Avcil (ex-detainee and campaigner) Kate Smurthwaite (comedian and activist)
As the file on the death of Habib Ullah in police custody in 2008 finally reaches the CPS, the intolerable delays in investigating deaths in custody are once more in the spotlight. This week, the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) referred the case of Habib Ullah to the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS). The IPCC’s initial
A demonstration demanding an end to police violence. Tuesday, 11 February 2014, 6pm Lambeth Town Hall, Brixton Hill, London SW2 1RW RELATED LINKS Brixton Black Revolutionary Socialists Brixton Rebels London Campaign Against Police and State Violence
A public meeting to demand an end to politicians creating a climate of racism and xenophobia. Tuesday 18 February 2014, 7-9pm The Workstation, 15 Paternoster Row, Sheffield S1 2BX Speakers: Emma Briant – University of Sheffield Jon Burnett – Institute of Race Relations John Grayson – SYMAAG Related links South Yorkshire Migration and Asylum Action
A new book on Enoch Powell reappraises without rehabilitating. In December 2012, Vince Cable compared his own government’s rhetoric on immigration to Powell’s 1968 ‘Rivers of Blood’ speech. In January of this year, UKIP leader Nigel Farage said of the same speech ‘the basic principle is right’. On both and many other occasions, columnists rushed
There is much to commend in No Place to Call Home, a potted history of Gypsies, Roma and Travellers in the UK and Ireland, but its reliance on police sources is worrying. There is much to praise in Katharine Quarmby’s No Place to Call Home. She capably describes the structured state and institutional racism that Gypsies
A UK-wide convergence to bring together various Stop G4S campaigns. Saturday 8 February 2014, 11-5pm Quaker Meeting House, 10 St James Street, Sheffield S1 2EW Related links Stop G4S
