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The IRR's online news service on anti-racism & social justice issues in UK & Europe. Our journal is Race & Class ▶ bit.ly/raceandclass Donate to the IRR ▶ irr.org.uk/donate For more info ▶ linktr.ee/instituteracerelations

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Institute of Race Relations @irrnews.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
IRR is hiring for two new staff members! As the IRR moves forward on anti-racist education, we are looking for a creative communications individual and a hands-on projects officer! 🕒 Deadline: 11:59pm 20 November 2026. Apply here ➡️ irr.org.uk/about/vacanc...
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Institute of Race Relations @irrnews.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Around 200 students have been injured as French riot police fire rubber bullets and grenades at student protesters. A 15-year-old student had his hand blown off. Another loses the sight of an eye. www.lemonde.fr/en/france/ar...
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French high school protests: What we know about injuries among demonstrators and police
On Monday, a 15-year-old boy's hand was blown off by a grenade during a riot police intervention. Six judicial investigations into police use of force have been opened since the protests began last we...
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Institute of Race Relations @irrnews.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
🚨Women seeking asylum in Home Office accommodation reported rape and sexual assault by British men, including staff and an immigration lawyer, but say they fear that pursuing convictions will damage their asylum claim.
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Rebecca Yeo @disabmurals.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Global Forum on Disability, Migration and Displacement -bringing together Disabled people, migrants, refugees, allies, movement organisers, international orgs etc 🌍 Free, online | 23–24 Sept - register www.gfdmd.org @disrightsuk.bsky.social @dis-ppl-protest.bsky.social @irrnews.bsky.social
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Global Forum on Disability, Migration and Forced Displacement
23–24 September 2026. Online. Free to attend. Convened and led by organisations of persons with disabilities.
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Institute of Race Relations @irrnews.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Last weekend the masked men we saw dressed in black shouting ‘stop the boats’ and ‘England till I die’, attempting to blockade the port of Dover and the streets of Portsmouth have been compared to Oswald Mosley’s Blackshirts or Loyalist-style paramilitaries.
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Institute of Race Relations @irrnews.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
The totality problem: C.L.R. James, Claudia Jones and critical theory by Scott Timcke and Shelene Gomes.
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Institute of Race Relations @irrnews.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Rest in power and peace Dr Jason Arday 🕊 In our newsletter ‘One Death is a Death Too Many’ and our regular calendar of racism and resistance we foreground a number of initiatives targeting media racism and lack of self-regulation following the tragic death of Dr Jason Arday.
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Institute of Race Relations @irrnews.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
📚New publisher Whitechapel Books produces award-winning journalist Hsiao-Hung Pai’s extraordinary account of Tower Hamlet’s insurgent history and the human cost of the gentrification of Brick Lane ⤵️⤵️ irr.org.uk/article/are-...
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Institute of Race Relations @irrnews.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
33 years ago, Joy Gardner was killed by the police in her home. ✊🏾 In this piece for Race & Class, The People’s Tribunal on Police Killings opens with a quote from Joy’s mother, Myrna Gardner.
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Institute of Race Relations @irrnews.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
📕Labour’s island of strangers: race, class and the politics of immigration in Starmer’s Britain by David Bates doi.org/10.1177/0306...
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Institute of Race Relations @irrnews.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Obstinate memory: the People’s Tribunal on Police Killings’ by Ken Fero, Jodie Bradshaw and Samantha Patterson. 📕 Lead article for July Race & Class 🗣️ Listen to Samantha Patterson, one of the authors, and co-founder of The People's Tribunal tell us more in this video ⤵️
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Institute of Race Relations @irrnews.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
📌 The latest issue of Race & Class is out now! It leads with an incredibly important article by @tribunalpeople.bsky.social ‘Obstinate memory: the People’s Tribunal on Police Killings’ by Ken Fero, Jodie Bradshaw and Samantha Patterson. journals.sagepub.com/share/JGVQ8R...
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Reprieve @reprievehq.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
This week, the US Supreme Court struck down President Donald Trump’s executive order attempting to limit birthright citizenship. It was a tight decision: five of the nine judges ruled that the order was unconstitutional. Reprieve played a small part 🧵
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Institute of Race Relations @irrnews.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
We're delighted that the majority saw sense and struck down Trump's attempt to remove birthright citizenship. www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...
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Institute of Race Relations @irrnews.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
A new DfE-backed review says the educational underachievement of white working-class boys must be addressed ⤵️🧵 www.theguardian.com/education/20...
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High-performing schools in England ‘should be encouraged to admit more white working-class pupils’
Report says once-in-a-generation changes needed to tackle why such children are lowest-performing large demographic
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Institute of Race Relations @irrnews.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
📌 New Race & Class article published this week! Labour's island of stangers: race, class, and the politics of immigration in Starmer's Britain by David Bates 🔓Open access article: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Institute of Race Relations @irrnews.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Recounting and reframing histories of resistance is important work, especially when national narratives tend to depoliticise or homogenise such stories. The life of Pearl Prescod: linktr.ee/instituterac...
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Institute of Race Relations @irrnews.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Dossier of a pogrom in Northern Ireland ( 9 – 16 June 2026) ⤵️ irr.org.uk/article/doss...
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Institute of Race Relations @irrnews.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Thank you to Migrants Rights Network (@migrantsrights.bsky.social) for bringing together such an important space at the Migrant Justice and the Far Right Summit over the weekend. It was powerful to come together in order to sharpen our analysis and build community power in such urgent times ✊🏽
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Institute of Race Relations @irrnews.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
9 years on from the Grenfell Tower fire and communities are still fighting for justice – we remember the 72 people who were killed in this preventable tragedy 💚
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Institute of Race Relations @irrnews.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Belfast burns again - by Stiofan O Nuallain morningstaronline.co.uk/article/belf...
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Institute of Race Relations @irrnews.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
'A monitoring group repeatedly warned the Police Service of Northern Ireland over the past eight months that anti-immigration activists were circulating the addresses of properties that were targeted in this week’s Belfast riots.’ theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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Institute of Race Relations @irrnews.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
🚨 2 weeks left to apply for this role 🔗 irr.org.uk/about/vacanc...
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Institute of Race Relations @irrnews.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
📚 New articles for the latest issue of Race & Class irr.org.uk/product/race...
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Politics_Oxford @politicsoxford.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
In Race& Class (an @irrnews.bsky.social journaL), DPIR's Musab Younis argues “great replacement” panic is rooted in a demographic tradition shaped by settler colonialism. Fears of White decline, he contends, help sustain racial hierarchy by framing equality as a threat: f.mtr.cool/bcodicdshu
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Institute of Race Relations @irrnews.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Our latest calendar highlights some of the most recent attacks on resistance for Palestine across the UK & Europe: irr.org.uk/article/cale...
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Institute of Race Relations @irrnews.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
⤵Check out our latest newsletter this week: ✊🏾 Defending universal anti-racist principles – the defining struggle of our times. Read in full here: preview.mailerlite.com/i9m5z8w4d1
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Shozab Raza @shozabraza.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
New in @irrnews.bsky.social with Noaman Ali: "Done with decolonisation? The perils & possibilities of a concept"

 Decolonization has become everything—and therefore nothing. We advance a revolutionary approach against liberal, class-blind, reactionary uses.🧵1/ journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Done with decolonisation? The perils and possibilities of a concept - Shozab Raza, Noaman G. Ali, 2026
Has decolonisation, as an analytical concept and political horizon, reached a dead-end? Some argue the term has been so overused – and misused – that it has los...
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Institute of Race Relations @irrnews.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
📚 Race & Class is hiring for an Editorial Assistant! Salary: £15 per hour, 12 hours per week This role is part time for 6 months, and offers a hybrid option to work from our office or remotely. Apply here ➡️https://irr.org.uk/about/vacancies/job-advert-editorial-assistant-on-race-class/
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Institute of Race Relations @irrnews.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
🚨 We're hiring! Looking for a Finance and Organisational support officer to join our wonderful team. 📍London office - 2 days in + 1 remote day. 💰£38,825 - £40,744 (pro-rata 3 days per week) ⏰ Apply by midnight, 7 June More info and apply here: irr.org.uk/about/vacanc...
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Institute of Race Relations @irrnews.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Full house at last night LSE launch of our Race & Class colleague Insa Koch’s book on Drugs, Race and the Politics of Modern Slavery Law. Great for IRR to spend time with Insa, Kojo Kyerewaa, Glodi Wabelua, Coretta Phillips and Angelique Vassell.
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Samantha Asumadu @samanthaasumadu.substack.com · 01/05/2026
Over-policed and under-protected: why does nothing change? @irrnews.bsky.social irr.org.uk/article/over...
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Over-policed and under-protected: why does nothing change? - Institute of Race Relations
Criminologists Sarah Lamble and Megan McElhome argue that getting to grips with contemporary police racism demands a more expansive approach.
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Nicholas Beuret @nicholasbeuret.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Race & Class made a video for our paper!
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Institute of Race Relations @irrnews.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
NEW ARTICLE❗ The mobilisation of refugee labour for carbon credits as maladaptive practice by Nicholas Beuret (@nicholasbeuret.bsky.social), Matilda Fitzmaurice (@matildaf.bsky.social) and David Harvie (@davidharvie.bsky.social). 🗣 Gholam Khiabany 📕 Read here: irr.org.uk/article/the-...
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David Harvie @davidharvie.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Having Race & Class publish my work feels personally important. I first learned of @irrnews.bsky.social four decades ago, at a conference in Sheffield on (anti-)racism & (anti-)colonialism, organised by Third World First (now People & Planet)...
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Dr Matilda Fitzmaurice @matildaf.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
The April 2026 issue of @irrnews.bsky.social Race & Class leads with mine, @nicholasbeuret.bsky.social and @davidharvie.bsky.social 's article on how the UNHCR's Refugee Environmental Protection Fund makes refugee labour into a source of carbon credits for global carbon markets.
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Institute of Race Relations @irrnews.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
The latest issue of Race & Class is out now! Order a physical copy or read online here ⤵️ irr.org.uk/product/race...
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Institute of Race Relations @irrnews.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
🎭50 years on was Destiny destiny? This year sees the 50th anniversary of the premiere of the pathbreaking play Destiny by David Edgar, describing the rise of neo-fascism in the 1970s. irr.org.uk/article/50-y...
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50 years on – was Destiny destiny? - Institute of Race Relations
Half a century after David Edgar’s pathbreaking anti-fascist play ‘Destiny’, linking empire, racism and industrial struggle, he examines its 1976 context and resonances in nationalist populism today. ...
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LSE Review of Books @lsereviewofbooks.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Who is Britain really saving in the fight against modern slavery? Drugs, Race, and the Politics of Modern Slavery Law by Insa Lee Koch @lselaw.bsky.social examines the problems with how Britain reclassified racialised young drug runners as victims of modern slavery. She introduces the book below 👇
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Drugs, race and Britain’s problematic modern slavery law - LSE Review of Books
Insa Lee Koch's Drugs, Race & the Politics of Modern Slavery Law examines how Britain reclassified racialised young drug runners as victims of “modern slavery”.
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LSE Review of Books @lsereviewofbooks.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Insa Lee Koch will speak about the book at an LSE panel event @lselaw.bsky.social @lseinequalities.bsky.social at 6.30pm on Wednesday 6 May, alongside Liz Fekete @irrnews.bsky.social, Kojo Kyerewaa @ukblm.bsky.social, Glodi Wabelua and Coretta Phillips. Find details and register to attend 👇
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Panel discussion | The racialised legacy of empire
6.30pm Wed 6 May | Liz Fekete, Professor Insa Lee Koch, Kojo Kyerewaa, Glodi Wabelua, Professor Coretta Phillips | Ticket Required | Free public event at LSE
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Institute of Race Relations @irrnews.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
33 years ago, Stephen Lawrence was murdered in a racist attack in Eltham, South-east London. irr.org.uk/app/uploads/...
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Runnymede Trust @runnymedetrust.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
What actually keeps us safe? Drawing on polling of over 5,000 people across Britain, we found that over half of the public believe investing in social and public services would do more to prevent crime than increasing police numbers or powers
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Institute of Race Relations @irrnews.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
IRR NEWS THIS WEEK ⤵️ 📝 Colonial connections in policing: from Palestine solidarity to drugs enforcement 📆 Race & resistance calendar irr.org.uk/article/cale... 🗣 Event: Drugs, Race & the Politics of Modern Slavery: www.lse.ac.uk/events/moder... Full newsletter: preview.mailerlite.com/i7e5k0r2p8
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Institute of Race Relations @irrnews.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
✊🏾Over three decades ago, the Campaign against Racism and Fascism (CARF) published this commentary on Bengali Youth Resistance. ‘What they don’t tell you about Tower Hamlets’
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Representology @representology.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
- The 70s radical Black press w/ Sophia Siddiqui @irrnews.bsky.social - Curator’s diary of the BFI’s Constructed, Told, Spoken season on multicultural TV - Sahar Halaimzai reviews ‘To Lose A War’ @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social - @hettieobrien.bsky.social ‘s cultural highlights FREE to read
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Representology @representology.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
REPRESENTOLOGY ISSUE NINE IS NOW LIVE! ✏️Commentary & research from leading figures in British culture, journalism, academia & diversity 📖Download for Free - shorturl.at/D4bka Read, Share, Enjoy!
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Institute of Race Relations @irrnews.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
❗BBC investigates about Greek police using mercenaries to force migrants across its land border with Turkey ⤵️
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Institute of Race Relations @irrnews.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
The criminal justice system is complacent about anti-Palestinian racism. We have two stories in our latest calendar that document these racist attacks. irr.org.uk/article/cale...
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Institute of Race Relations @irrnews.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
🖋 IRR report series on racism and the Right 1️⃣ Mainstreaming hate: 2️⃣ Enforcing Britishness 3️⃣ In racism’s echo chamber linktr.ee/instituterac...
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Institute of Race Relations @irrnews.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
🌐 What does the Iran conflict mean for Black Britain? Read this important article by Nadine White for Black Current News, which includes a quote from our very own Liz Fekete ⤵️ www.blackcurrentnews.co.uk/p/iran-confl...
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What does the Iran conflict mean for Black Britain?
As tensions involving Iran rise, the ripple effects could reach far beyond the region with unequal consequences for Black communities
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