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Europe’s increased use of weaponry against racialised minorities, migrants and protesters, signifies creeping authoritarianism – IRR new study finds The new study, published on the fifth anniversary ...
17 October 2024. In a Guardian piece following a Guardian/ Hope Not Hate investigation into an international network of activists and academics seeking to normalise scientific racism, IRR Director Liz ...
Anne-Ysore Onana-Oteba reviews the biography of Arthur France, a community activist who founded the Leeds Carnival 57 years ago. I have heard the story of my father’s journey from Cameroon to France ...
These far-right riots and the ensuing racist and Islamophobic violence are unparalleled. Yet the government’s response is to focus on ‘violent disorder across the ideological spectrum’. This ...
CW: This article also includes examples of sexual violence experienced by women living in poverty. Some readers might find this distressing. The serving of rotten food to people seeking asylum living ...
‘County lines’: racism, safeguarding and statecraft in Britain by Insa Koch, Lauren Wroe and Patrick Williams, three leading experts in law, criminal justice and legal and social policy, is published ...
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 ...
Fifty years ago, the Institute of Race Relations overturned ‘race relations’ orthodoxies and set parameters for a committed anti-racism. Fifty years on, the IRR, with radical scholar activists, ...
Twenty-four years separates them, but both the Macpherson report and the Casey report identified ‘poor service provision’ as at the heart of institutional racism in policing. Writing from an ...
Sophia Siddiqui investigates what is underpinning the violent targeting of accommodation housing asylum seekers in Ireland and across the UK and how feminists, anti-racists, migrant solidarity and ...
The idea, expressed in 2012’s Britannia Unchained, co-authored by Liz Truss, Kwasi Kwarteng and others, was tested to destruction in summer 2022 during Truss’s short-lived premiership, when the ...
The Manston camp has been emptied following the death of a man who was detained there. But this will not put an end to the humanitarian crisis facing newly arrived migrants and refugees, which is ...