Policing and criminal justice system
A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe.
Nov 28 2019
‘You need to look closely, because Elephant and Castle is a model for other dispossession projects’
Elephant and Castle is London’s gentrification ‘ground zero’ – where a blueprint for other large scale regeneration projects is to be made.
Since IRR News last reported on Denmark’s ‘ghetto package’, presented to parliament in March 2018 to regulate life in the so-called ‘hard ghettos’ of Mjølnerparken in Copenhagen, Gadehavegård in Høje-Taastrup, Vollsmose in Odense and Gellerupparken/Toveshøj in Aarhus, Denmark has had a general election.
Recent Publications
October 1, 2019
Race & Class, October 2019
The October issue includes articles on the Sir George Williams student uprisings in Trinidad and Tobago, the construction of White Australia and a landmark piece unpacking the concept of 'white privilege' by Miriyam Aouragh.
July 15, 2019
Race & Class, July 2019
As the notion of a Green New Deal rapidly spreads as an answer to capitalism in US and UK media and political circles, our lead article in July 2019 asks if Green capitalism can propose a real solution to the ecological crisis and the human crises of poverty, austerity, immigration and racism.
April 25, 2019
When witnesses won’t be silenced: citizens’ solidarity and criminalisation
When witnesses won't be silenced: citizens’ solidarity and criminalisation is a free downloadable briefing paper that looks at the dramatic increase in prosecutions from European states on humanitarian activists for their acts of solidarity with and assistance of displaced people.
Upcoming Events
A night of fun, dancing and activism to raise funds for the fight for justice!
Nov 20 2019
‘If she had been a white German woman, her death would have been properly investigated’
The death of a Kenyan woman has stirred anger about the treatment of women and asylum seekers in Germany.
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