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A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe.
A new book on forced labour, trafficking and other forms of extreme exploitation encourages reflection on the duplicities and contradictions in the current debate.
Public tribunal finds hostile environment policies foster racism, institutional cruelty and violence by design.
Recent Publications
April 25, 2019
When witnesses won’t be silenced: citizens’ solidarity and criminalisation
When witnesses won't be silenced: citizens’ solidarity and criminalisation is a free downloadable briefing paper that looks at the dramatic increase in prosecutions from European states on humanitarian activists for their acts of solidarity with and assistance of displaced people.
April 2, 2019
Race & Class, April 2019
The April 2019 issue of Race & Class shows how the reinvention of colonialism through the domination of digital technology and transnational flows of securitisation is being met by unique forms of resistance.
January 7, 2019
Race & Class, January 2019
This week, the IRR publishes a memorial issue of Race & Class celebrating the lifework of the late Barbara Harlow, Solidarity here and everywhere.
November 19, 2018
The Embedding of State Hostility: a background paper on the Windrush Scandal
The Embedding of State Hostility: a background paper on the Windrush scandal is a briefing that shows how the injustices meted out to the Windrush generation are not anomalies but the logical result of an immigration system that, over many years, has weaponised the idea of ‘the illegal immigrant’.
Jun 6 2019
The ‘rebel’ history of the Grove
A long-term resident of North Kensington recalls the area’s social history as representative of momentous Black British community struggles.
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