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The October 2018 issue of Race & Class brings together pieces on racialising domestic violence, #Grime4Corybyn, the rebranding of C.L.R. James for a neoliberal era and memorial tributes to A. Sivanandan.
Past oppressions are written into our statues, our architecture and our walls. This special issue of Race & Class brings a new perspective to reparatory history.
The IRR welcomes Amnesty International and The Monitoring Group’s recent reports on the racially discriminatory nature of the Metropolitan Police Service’s Gangs Matrix intelligence database.
What, asks the April issue of Race & Class, has happened in policy and academia to the concept of ‘radicalisation’ that Arun Kundnani analysed in a pathbreaking piece, ‘Radicalisation: the journey of a concept’, some six years ago?
How, asks the January issue of Race & Class, are the principles of neoliberalism reinforced through the racial dimensions of governance, the criminal justice system and the media?
A. Sivanandan, the Director Emeritus of the Institute of Race Relations and founding editor of Race & Class has passed away.
Nov 11 2017
EU member states, in criminalising humanitarians, are feeding Europe’s far Right
The Institute of Race Relations (IRR) publishes today research showing that EU member states are using laws, aimed at traffickers and smugglers, to criminalise those acting out of humanitarian motives.
How, asks the October 2017 issue of Race & Class, are societies attempting to corral non-white surplus populations, especially when they resist their racialisation?
The July 2017 issue of Race & Class is now available and you can download the lead article for free (for a limited time only).
The April 2017 Race & Class tackles two key current themes: the impact of Fox News in (mis)representing news and creating racist discourses, and the way in which Canadian ‘neoliberal multiculturalism’ is marginalising Arabs, Muslims and those in solidarity with Palestine.
The January 2017 issue of Race & Class leads with a very timely article on Europe by IRR director Liz Fekete.
In a pioneering study published today, the IRR takes a fresh look at the nature of racial hate crimes since the referendum.
The October 2016 of Race & Class leads with two very timely and politically-provoking articles on the international impact of securitisation.
Sep 1 2016
Submission to the House of Commons Home Affairs Committee on hate crime and its violent consequences
As the police investigate the murder of a Polish factory worker in Harlow, the Institute of Race Relations publishes today its evidence to the House of Commons Home Affairs Committee Inquiry into Hate Crime and its Violent Consequences.
The latest issue of Race & Class is devoted to black political struggle in the UK 1950s-1980s.
Jun 28 2016
Submission to the Labour Party Inquiry into anti-Semitism and other forms of racism
The IRR publishes its submission to the Labour Party Inquiry into anti-Semitism and other forms of racism, including Islamophobia.
The latest issue of Race & Class features articles examining the roots of paramilitary and structural violence in Jamaica and Hungary.
An IRR discussion paper on the Housing and Planning and Immigration Bills 2015-16.
Jan 28 2016
An open discussion about counter-radicalisation measures in schools should be welcomed
A paper[1], Prevent and the Children's Rights Convention, published today by the Institute of Race Relations supports the NUT's call[2] for a more rational debate on the Prevent duty in schools.
The January 2016 issue of Race & Class is a special issue on the theme of ‘reparative histories’.
In the week that the government announced new counter-extremism measures, the IRR publishes contributions from its seminar on 'Securitisation, Schools and Preventing Extremism', held at Garden Court Chambers on 7 October, where participants considered the consequences of a new statutory duty on public bodies to prevent non-violent extremism and whether it breached the Equality Act.
The latest issue of Race & Class features Mark McGovern’s timely analysis of the colonial roots of state violence and collusion in Northern Ireland.
The July issue of Race & Class takes up three topical themes: the monetarisation of private information, the politics of film and the demonisation of ‘anti-racism’.
The April 2015 issue of Race & Class argues that Northern Ireland’s BAME communities have been living the peace process in reverse.
The IRR publishes a disturbing new report, Unwanted, unnoticed: an audit of 160 asylum and immigration-related deaths in Europe, revealing the extent of Europe’s departure from its vaunted humanitarian ideals.