Europe’s increased use of weaponry against racialised minorities, migrants and protesters, signifies creeping authoritarianism – IRR new study finds The new study, published on the fifth anniversary ...

Paramilitary policing against the people: Colonial continuities and the challenge from below – endorsements from Statewatch, Omega Research Foundation, Advocacy Officer European Legal Support Centre, ...

Pierre Bonnevalle, 30 years of creating the deterrence policy, p. 251, Plateforme des Soutiens aux Migrant-e-s, English translation: Crossborder Forum, 2023. 30 years of creating the deterrence policy ...

17 October 2024. In a Guardian piece following a Guardian/ Hope Not Hate investigation into an international network of activists and academics seeking to normalise scientific racism, IRR Director Liz ...

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 ...

Sophia Siddiqui analyses the outgoing government’s attack on disability social security, showing how it drew on stigmatising moral panics and followed a similar approach to the attack on asylum ...

CW: This article also includes examples of sexual violence experienced by women living in poverty. Some readers might find this distressing. The serving of rotten food to people seeking asylum living ...

‘County lines’: racism, safeguarding and statecraft in Britain by Insa Koch, Lauren Wroe and Patrick Williams, three leading experts in law, criminal justice and legal and social policy, is published ...

The October 2023 issue of Race & Class provides a cutting-edge analysis of the British ‘War on Woke’, as well as the role of ethnic minorities in the Conservative party. Order now. What does the ...

The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has today published the data from its joint enterprise pilot flagging scheme. By reviewing case files during the period of February to August of 2023 information ...

Fifty years ago, the Institute of Race Relations overturned ‘race relations’ orthodoxies and set parameters for a committed anti-racism. Fifty years on, the IRR, with radical scholar activists, ...

IRR News 11 – 25 May 2023. The American hard Right are coming to the UK – and Europe. But, unlike in Hungary, where the gathering of Europe’s extreme-right figures (including the prime ministers of ...