22 December: Belfast City Council passes a motion supporting the Palestine Action prison hunger strike in England, demanding that the hunger strikers be granted bail and calling for the organisation’s ...

23 December 2025 – 6 January 2026 The continuing political and media feeding frenzy over the citizenship of Alaa Abd el-Fattah and Shamima Begum reveals the colonial roots and racist undertones of ...

Mistaken identity, a gang initiation… or simply a sickening, random hate crime? Dad smashed over the head with a brick in front of his wife and kids – Manchester Evening News ...

A new report from the IRR and Centre on the Dynamics of Ethnicity (CoDE) suggests that policing during the Covid-19 pandemic undermines public health measures whilst disproportionately targeting Black ...

Citizenship-stripping powers introduced since 2002 have enshrined a ‘second-class citizenship’ in the UK, mainly affecting British Muslims, says a new report from the Institute of Race Relations.

Written by Lucie Audibert (Lawyer and Legal Officer, Privacy International) & Monish Bhatia (Lecturer in Criminology, Birkbeck, University of London) Through its use ...

The April 2023 issue of Race & Class offers a challenge to how Europe is understood and explores the origins and impacts of civilisational racism. The enslavement of foreign labour in Europe, was, as ...

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.

HOPE not Hate have initiated a debate on grooming, here Liz Fekete, long-time anti-fascist campaigner responds. ‘We have known each other for a long time (as anti-fascists in the 1990s) and I ...

Jenny Bourne, long time anti-racist campaigner and editor of the IRR’s journal Race & Class, writes about the 1965 Race Relations Act and assesses the fifty years since it was passed. How should we be ...

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 ...

Lee Bridges, Professor Emeritus (School of Law, University of Warwick), examines the ethnic composition of the Metropolitan police’s gangs database. In October 2014, the Met police disclosed ...