September 2004
Some stories
Sikh victim of vicious racist attack
A Sikh human rights activist has been brutally beaten by racists in Coventry.
30 September 2004 (199 words)
Stealing a nation
A new documentary by John Pilger, to be screened next Wednesday, reveals how in the 1960s Britain secretly and brutally expelled the inhabitants of the Chagos Islands in the Indian Ocean - so that the US could build a military base there.
29 September 2004 (718 words)
Resource for Black organisations published
The National Institute of Adult and Continuing Education (NIACE) has published Fail to Plan: Plan to Fail, a toolkit to help black voluntary and community organisations obtain funding.
20 September 2004 (191 words)
Race & Class celebrates milestone
Speaking at the 30-year celebration of the radical journal Race & Class, IRR chair Colin Prescod took stock of the past, while founder editor A. Sivanandan called for new political analysis to inform struggles against racism, empire and globalisation over the coming years.
15 September 2004 (404 words)
Books not bars for Rachid Ramda
Rachid Ramda, an Algerian asylum seeker, has been detained in Belmarsh maximum security prison for the last nine years - even though he has not been convicted of any crime.
15 September 2004 (317 words)
Huge response to Omid Jamil Ali appeal
An appeal by an Iraqi family for the body of their migrant son to be returned home for burial, three years after he died trying to enter Britain, has received a strong response from IRR News' readers. The necessary £3,100 has now been raised.
9 September 2004 (466 words)
Indefinite detention creates a 'suicide culture'
A Scottish NGO is calling on Amnesty International and the UNHCR to investigate the 'suicide culture' at Dungavel detention centre.
7 September 2004 (586 words)