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The IRR's online news service on anti-racism & social justice issues in UK & Europe.

Our journal is Race & Class ▶ https://bit.ly/raceandclass
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Are you based in London and unsure how to get to the Migrant Workers' Rally this Saturday? We've got you covered.

🚌We have booked a 60 seat coach for anyone London-based who wants to support the demo.

Find out more and register now: lnkd.in/enYTfAaq
migrantsrights.bsky.social Migrants' Rights Network @migrantsrights.bsky.social · 5d
Mobilise on Shabana Mahmood’s Turf 📣13 December 12pm

Now is the time for everyone, no matter their immigration, visa or citizenship status, to be in solidarity with migrant workers and 📢say together we work, together we rise
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We are here to stay Migrants Workers' RIghts National Demonstration 12pm Saturday 13 December 2025 The Home Secretary's Constituency Birmingham Ladywood Assemble St Martins Square B5 4BW
December 8, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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‼️ Far-right activity documented in our latest race and resistance calendar ⤵️

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December 8, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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This week IRR's Sophia Siddiqui took part in a panel at the London Migration Film Festival, at a screening of Soleil Ô - a landmark piece of political cinema on colonialism, capitalism and migration by legendary director Med Hondo

Thank you for having us at your 10th annual edition!
December 3, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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Community and neighbourhood belong to us all ✊🏾

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November 27, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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We've written to the Home Secretary and Chair of the National Police Chiefs’ Council raising our concerns that guidance encouraging police forces to disclose the ethnicity and nationality of suspects charged in high-profile cases is having a devastating impact on our country.
Police disclosing suspects’ ethnicity is fuelling prejudice, say campaigners
Fifty groups write letter calling for policy in high-profile cases in England and Wales to be scrapped
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November 24, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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Have you heard Sideways Sociology? Three audio essays on three landmark figures of UK anti-racism: Ambalavaner Sivanandan, Len Garrison and Gerlin Bean. Engage, learn, share! @blackhistorymonth.org.uk #blackhistory #antiracism @irrnews.bsky.social buff.ly/Wcn1lzK
Sideways Sociology: UK Anti-Racism Podcast series graphic featuring line drawings of four Black and Brown faces and two arrows pointing upward
October 31, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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New article from Siobhan O'Neill

📝Understanding UK state violence and resistance in police pursuit killings

Out now in @irrnews.bsky.social Race & Class journal
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Understanding UK state violence and resistance in police pursuit killings - Siobhan O’neill, 2025
Racially minoritised and working-class communities in the UK continue to be underprotected and overpoliced. One aspect of that overpolicing that has thus far be...
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November 6, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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Robert Jenrick saw “no white faces” in Handsworth, calling it “unintegrated.”

Mukhtar Dar, artist and founder of the Sheffield Asian Youth Movement, saw something else ⤵️
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Handsworth: the colour Jenrick couldn’t see - Institute of Race Relations
Mukhtar Dar, a founder of Sheffield Asian Youth Movement, political artist and activist, and now director at Kalaboration Arts reflects on shadow justice secretary Robert Jenrick’s observations about ...
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October 23, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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🗓 Last month's Calendar of Racism & Resistance shows how nationalism is weaponised against asylum seekers, against Palestine, & against anyone who dares to resist.

irr.org.uk/article/cale...
October 13, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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IRR joined activists and other migrant organisations for a day of sharing knowledge and building power on how to defeat far-right racism. We keep on fighting ✊🏽

🗣️A day of important and inspiring contributions at the festival of radical politics.
September 29, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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✊🏽 On Tuesday, trade unionists came together at a TUC Cymru Rebuilding Unity Conference creating space to explore how we build anti-racism across our movement.
September 25, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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Latest stories from our calendar of racism and resistance ⤵️

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September 19, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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🔈"We need community defence and a national movement against racial violence"

Today, IRR Director Liz Fekete spoke on a panel at Leeds Beckett University symposium on 'Reflecting on the Riots: Racism, Islamophobia and Community Resistance'.
September 10, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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We are hiring a new Executive Director! Could it be you?

If so, please apply by 6 October! If not, please share widely.

Role description and application portal here:
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Statewatch is recruiting a new director! Could it be you? In the background are green halftone images of people holding placards that say "resist" and "people over power". swipe or click right for information about the role About the role: Statewatch is looking for someone to build on our nearly 35-year legacy of exposing state power and informing dissent. In this role, you would lead a small staff, coordinate with a wide network of contributors, serve as a public face of our work, and ensure we remain bold, effective, and relevant. Working hours: 4 days per week Location: London or remote Annual salary: £40,180 Holidays: 22.4 days, plus public holidays. Swipe or click right for core tasks of this role core tasks of the role: Day-to-day management of Statewatch. Maintaining and developing relationships with new and existing funders. Strategic monitoring, evaluation, planning and implementation of our work. Representing Statewatch in public forums. Identifying and initiating opportunities for cooperation with relevant entities or individuals. Supervising and advising staff and volunteers, and occasionally writing and editing to support their work. Recruiting new staff and volunteers. Maintaining up-to-date policies and procedures. Reporting to and supporting the Board of Trustees. Swipe or click right for information about you, if you are the right candidate About you. We are looking for someone who brings ideas, experience, and a commitment to justice. We don’t expect that you have done this exact job before, and we welcome transferable skills. In this role, you will take on the responsibility of maintaining a small organisation; prioritising flexible working, clear expectations, collaborative decision-making and a friendly environment. Swipe or click right for what qualities we are looking for.
September 8, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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📃 In this week's IRR newsletter we highlight the recent increased activity of the far Right over the past few weeks..

Read the full newsletter: bit.ly/IRRNEWS24072...
July 25, 2025 at 10:15 AM
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🚨EXCLUSIVE: Our interim findings (based on 126 case studies) show almost ONE THIRD of people faced charges for resisting the Summer 2024 riots and these were mostly young Muslim men.

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‘Equally culpable’ in the courtroom: how the CJS responded to the Summer 2024 far-right orchestrated racist riots - Institute of Race Relations
There has been a  concerted attempt by politicians to erase the fact that last Summer’s  far-right orchestrated riots were marked by extreme racist violence. But are the courts guilty of similar erasu...
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July 23, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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What’s tech got to do with racism? How do global struggles connect to local ones? In Sideways Sociology: UK Anti-Racism, @‌johnnarayan.bsky.social @irrnews.bsky.social @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social celebrates Siva’s essay “New Circuits of Imperialism”

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July 8, 2025 at 7:01 AM
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🗓 Recent stories on Race, Migration & the Far-Right ⤵️

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July 1, 2025 at 11:03 AM
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The Amiel & Melburn Annual lecture is happening this Wednesday!

A stellar lineup discussing how the Left can resist the Rise of the Radical Right, hosted at Birkbeck.

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June 30, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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excellent, as per usual…
irrnews.bsky.social Institute of Race Relations @irrnews.bsky.social · Jun 26
🗞️ Recent stories from the racist riots in Ballymena, Northern Ireland.

For more on this and other stories read our latest calendar ➡️ irr.org.uk/article/cale...
June 26, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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🗞️ Recent stories from the racist riots in Ballymena, Northern Ireland.

For more on this and other stories read our latest calendar ➡️ irr.org.uk/article/cale...
June 26, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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⚖️We’re launching our Race & Class criminal justice archive and timeline.

Here are some moments that draw from the timeline in the last 50 years that you might want to know more about ⤵️
June 11, 2025 at 6:14 AM
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OUT NOW: New podcast on three key figures in UK anti-racism – Sivanandan, Gerlin Bean, Len Garrison – showing how their work and ideas speak to sociology and to what it means to be anti-racist. Feat. John Narayan, A.S. Francis, Hannah Ismael.

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May 30, 2025 at 6:42 AM
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What’s tech got to do with racism? How do global struggles connect to local ones? In Sideways Sociology: UK Anti-Racism, @‌johnnarayan.bsky.social @irrnews.bsky.social @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social celebrates Siva’s essay “New Circuits of Imperialism”

Tune in: buff.ly/9ImtmBr
June 2, 2025 at 7:02 AM
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Calendar of Racism and Resistance (15 - 28 May)
For more stories from the past two weeks read ⤵️ irr.org.uk/article/cale...
Calendar of Racism and Resistance 14 - 28 May - Institute of Race Relations
ELECTORAL POLITICS| GOVERNMENT POLICY As anti-migrant, anti-equalities, anti-abortion, misogynistic and anti-LGBTQI rhetoric in electoral campaigning are increasingly interlinked, we reflect this in t...
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May 29, 2025 at 2:31 PM