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Against Racism, for Social Justice
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The terrible events in Christchurch, New Zealand, which left fifty people dead and fifty people injured, reverberated across the UK.
The Tamil community has lost a valiant fighter.
On International Women’s Day, Kay Stephens reflects on how the far Right and the mainstream co-opt a feminist stance for racist and anti-feminist ends, particularly around issues of sexual violence.
Mar 8 2019
Challenging far-right racism means standing up for women’s rights, says IRR
Today, on International Women’s Day, the IRR warns that anti-immigrant Islamophobic currents in Europe are growing on the back of the racialisation of sex crimes.
A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe.
A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe.
New IRR publication provides a fresh take on housing, policing and racism in London.
A Southall resident describes the community activities in Southall Resists 40, remembering the death of anti-fascist Blair Peach in 1979 and the historic opposition to racism and fascism in Southall.
A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe.
A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe.
The white paper's differential treatment of 'low risk' and 'high risk' nationalities, ‘high skilled’ and ‘low skilled’ people, will create new hierarchies of race and class – and intolerable hardship.
A pamphlet published in the run-up to the 400th anniversary of the Mayflower voyage to North America offers a welcome alternative perspective.
A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe.
This week, the IRR publishes a memorial issue of Race & Class celebrating the lifework of the late Barbara Harlow, Solidarity here and everywhere.
To mark the anniversary of the death of A. Sivanandan, the IRR examines how useful his ideas are for unravelling the recent turn in the UK to the concept of unconscious bias.
A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe.
IRR vice-chair Frances Webber comments on the stansted 15 verdict, a trial where laws designed to deal with terrorist threats at airports have been brought against human rights defenders.
Mar 21 2019
Who facilitated the Christchurch terrorist’s journey through hate?
The context of war and the influence of the New Right intelligentsia cannot be left out of the reckoning when it comes to understanding the making of the New Zealand terrorist.
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