Quarterly journal on racism, empire and globalisation from the UK Institute of Race Relations (@IRR_News)
London, England
Joined March 2014
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IRR is hiring for two new staff members!
As the IRR moves forward on anti-racist education, we are looking for a creative communications individual and a hands-on projects officer!
🕒 Deadline: 11:59pm 20 November 2026.
Apply here ➡️ irr.org.uk/about/vacancies/
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"They shall not pass"
It's been 90 years since the Battle of Cable Street, but it's been almost forgotten that just one week earlier, Leeds confronted Oswald Mosely in what became known as the Battle of Holbeck Moor.
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Rest in power and peace Dr Jason Arday 🕊
In our newsletter ‘One Death is a Death Too Many’ and our regular calendar of racism and resistance we foreground a number of initiatives targeting media racism and lack of self-regulation following the tragic death of Dr Jason Arday.
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Recounting and reframing histories of resistance is important work, especially when national narratives tend to depoliticise or homogenise such stories.
The life of Pearl Prescod: linktr.ee/admin/links
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⏰Deadline next Tuesday!
🚨 We're hiring!
Looking for a Finance and Organisational support officer to join our wonderful team.
📍London office - 2 days in + 1 remote day.
💰£38,825 - £40,744 (pro-rata 3 days per week)
⏰ Apply by midnight, 7 June
More info and apply here: irr.org.uk/about/vacancies/j…
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Rightwing newspapers are trying to run a smear campaign against Misan Harriman. We can't let them.
Add your name to the open letter, and stand against hate and division 👇
goodlaw.social/rtu6
Race & Class retweeted
🚨 We're hiring!
Looking for a Finance and Organisational support officer to join our wonderful team.
📍London office - 2 days in + 1 remote day.
💰£38,825 - £40,744 (pro-rata 3 days per week)
⏰ Apply by midnight, 7 June
More info and apply here: irr.org.uk/about/vacancies/j…
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So proud to be the cover article on the latest edition of Race & Class
The latest issue of Race & Class is now out! Order a physical copy or read online here ⤵️
irr.org.uk/product/race-and-…
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🗞️Our latest report in the @JusticeGap highlights how the government, police and courts decontextualised the riots, severing them from issues of structural discrimination and systemic racism.
🔗thejusticegap.com/courts-dow…
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February is #BlackHistoryMonth in the U.S. honoring Black achievement, resilience, and culture. 2026’s theme, “A Century of Black History Commemorations,” marks 100 years since Dr. Carter G. Woodson’s first observance.
Explore: ow.ly/WFEO50Y4WQQ #BHM2026
ALT Black History Month
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Marcel and I have a new paper out in @Race_Class. It began as an attempt to think through the applicability of lessons from South Africa's Black Consciousness movement.
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🚨EXCLUSIVE 🚨Our new briefing shows that policy and prosecutorial responses to the summer 2024 riots delink the violence from racism - paving the way for anti-immigration and Islamophobic protests and far-right vigilantism to form an infinite loop.
theguardian.com/uk-news/2026…
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In our latest print issue, Race & Class deputy editor Sophia Siddiqui traces the lineage of anti-racist publishing in the UK - from Claudia Jones’ West Indian Gazette to the British Asian quarterly Mukti ✏️
Read the full version & order a copy of ‘Anthology’ now - link in bio 🔗
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"Does the United States owe reparations to Somalia?" - at @Race_Class: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.… 👈🚨
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🚨 NEW IRR BRIEFING🚨Enforcing Britishness: from the ‘numbers game’ to far-right vigilantism”
Those enforcing Britishness divide ‘us’ and ‘them’. Real security lies in solidarity, local democracy and everyday anti-racism.
🔗 irr.org.uk/article/enforcing…
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Faith communities should be able to gather and worship without fear of harassment or violence. The news that at least two people have died in an attack on Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation synagogue in Greater Manchester is deeply distressing.
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A moment of resistance in youth shaped a lifetime of activism.
Nikesh Shukla details how a protest song led him to volunteer with anti-racism groups, including the Institute of Race Relations. ✊🏿
theguardian.com/culture/2025…
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Gareth Peirce interviewed in @Race_Class in 2001: the TA 2000 entails "a complete destruction of freedom of speech" and "cuts off all potential for intelligent political argument or debate about any politics that involves a proscribed organisation..." journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs…
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"What Enoch Powell says today, the Conservative party says tomorrow, and the Labour party legislates on the day after."
✍️@aamnamohdin leads this piece with a quote from the late A. Sivanandan
theguardian.com/world/2025/a…