GOVERNMENT POLICY As anti-migrant, anti-equalities, anti-abortion, misogynistic and anti-LGBTQI rhetoric in electoral campaigning are increasingly interlinked, we reflect this in the coverage below ...

July – 5th August 2025 We tend to think of all the great social movements in history as driven by progressive values – ...

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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 ...

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 ...

6 – 20 August 2024 The far-right-orchestrated riots, birthed in the political and media mainstreaming of hate, has left the communities targeted for racist violence outraged and exhausted. But, with ...

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’ refers to the government and police’s unique crime label for describing an ‘export mode’ of drug distribution based on ‘forced gang related activity’ and ‘criminal exploitation’ of ...

The October 2023 issue of Race & Class provides a cutting-edge analysis of the British ‘War on Woke’, as well as the role of ethnic minorities in the Conservative party. What does the ambiguous, catch ...

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, ...