Institute of Race Relations News Service

22/02/2024

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22/02/2024

📣 IRR NEWSLETTER IS OUT NOW!

The persecution of migrants and the criminalisation of protest

🗓️ Calendar of Racism & Resistance
✍️ New piece written by IRR director Liz Fekete
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In this week's editorial we share the outrage of migrant and refugee advocacy groups such as , , and , at the cruel prosecution of Ibrahima Bah, from Senegal, that has led to his unjust conviction for facilitating illegal immigration and manslaughter.

Much of this week's calendar is taken up with charting the authoritarian proposals - not least through amendments to the Criminal Justice Bill - being proposed by the government and counter-extremism tsars, to crack down on demonstrations in support of Palestinians and calling for a ceasefire in the war in Gaza.

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08/02/2024

📣 NEW IRR NEWSLETTER OUT NOW!

Campaigns make headway - read our latest Calendar of Racism and Resistance

This week we focus on the stories of resistance of organised campaigns in the launching of legal interventions against the government.

We also highlight two important pieces of research on the deadly consequences of the 'Stop the Boat' deal between the UK & France and on the alarming number of deaths in police custody in Scotland.

Read the full calendar and newsletter via the link in our bio.

07/12/2023

Our latest calendar is out now!

This week we continue to highlight stories on the on-going anti-Palestinianism in the UK and in Europe.

We also highlight the riots and far-right violence in Dublin, as well as the Home Office's new draconian immigration bill.

Read the full calendar on resistance via the link in our bio.

23/11/2023

📺Challenging media double standards - Resetting the agenda

📢IRR NEWSLETTER IS OUT
https://bit.ly/IRRNEWS23112023

Our third and final calendar on anti-Palestinianism is out now - visit our website to see the previous analysis and reporting we have covered over the past few weeks.

In this final newsletter we highlight that over the last few weeks, we have seen welcome signs that the mainstream media may have lost its knack for shaping public opinion. Daily mobilisations in support of a permanent ceasefire in Gaza in towns and cities across the country have posed a direct challenge to the media’s double standards in reporting from Israel and the Occupied Territories.

In the final instalment of our special calendar on anti-Palestinian racism – put together at a time of a war in the Middle East which has had an unprecedented impact on state policy and policing practices in the UK – we have gathered numerous case studies that speak to our concern that a McCarthyite witch hunt is being conducted by the media against Palestinian, Jewish anti-Zionist and other organisations, artists, academics and cultural figures and students who support the permanent ceasefire.

Read here for more: https://bit.ly/IRRNEWS23112023

04/10/2023

Joint enterprise, ‘gangs’ and racism: time to halt this continued injustice by Becky Clarke.

Analysing newly published CPS data, Clarke raises concerns of those prosecuted under the controversial Joint-Enterprise (JE) doctrine. The article highlights the decade of work by researchers and campaign group JENGbA (Joint Enterprise not guilty by association) showing that JE prosecutions are disproportionately used against Black, Asian and other racialised defendants.

Read the full article on the IRR website:

The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has today published the data from its joint enterprise pilot flagging scheme. By reviewing case files during the period of February to August of 2023 information has for the first time been captured on the use of joint enterprise (JE) in criminal prosecutions. JE....

18/07/2023

As the Illegal Migration Bill passes in the House of Lords and the Bibby Stockholm barge docks in Dover, we remember the words of A. Sivanandan

10/07/2023

A very exciting arrival today - physical copies of our special issue, New Circuits of Anti Racism! 💥

Order your copy whilst stocks last via our website: irr.org.uk

06/07/2023

Reading the riots: From Mark Duggan to Nahel Merzouk

Our last IRR News before our Summer break featuring:

✍️Editorial on policing in 🇫🇷 & 🇬🇧
📕 Special issue of Race & Class
🗓 Calendar of Racism & Resistance

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It’s impossible to watch the events unfolding in France, in response to the shooting dead of Nahel Merzouk by police following a traffic stop, without remembering 4 August 2011, and the hard stop and police killing of Mark Duggan in Tottenham. It was the police’s disastrous treatment of Mark Dug...