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Race and Class, October 2025

This latest issue of Race & Class leads with an article on Irish solidarity with Palestine.Read More ...
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Handsworth: the colour Jenrick couldn’t see

Mukhtar Dar, a founder of Sheffield Asian Youth Movement, political artist and activist, and now director at Kalaboration Arts reflects on shadow justice secretary Robert Jenrick’s observations about ...
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Paramilitary policing against the people: Colonial continuities and the challenge from below

The new study, published on the fifth anniversary of the death of George Floyd, links the growing use of dangerous crowd control weaponry to the embrace of hypermilitarised policing in Europe. The ...
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IRR concerns about the return of ‘race science’: full statement to the Guardian

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 Fekete warns on ...
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Stop changing the subject – the problem is fascism

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 ...
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The attack on welfare: from disability benefits to asylum support

Image header: On 23 March 2012, a painted mural composed of the drawings, ideas and messages of disabled asylum seekers was installed in Bristol. Credit: Disability Murals Sophia Siddiqui analyses the ...
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Racism and the food system: from asylum hotels to overfishing in Senegal

Some of the initial themes in our research have flagged the disruption of reproductive justice. For example, women seeking asylum are being housed in Home Office ‘Dispersal Accommodation’, referred to ...
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Working in tandem – the British State, the legacy media and the right to protest

Palestinian journalists in Gaza, travelling on foot, living in tents and with little access to food and water, have shown monumental courage and commitment to their profession. They have carried on ...
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‘County lines’: racism, safeguarding and statecraft in Britain

‘County Lines’ refers to the government and police’s unique crime label for describing an ‘export mode’ of drug distribution based on ‘forced gang related activity’ and ‘criminal exploitation’ of ...
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An anatomy of the British ‘War on Woke’

Read both articles, along with the rest of the October issue online, or order a physical copy for £6. The Institute of Race Relations is precluded from expressing a corporate view: any opinions ...
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Over-policed and under-protected: why does nothing change?

Twenty-four years separates them, but both the Macpherson report and the Casey report identified ‘poor service provision’ as at the heart of institutional racism in policing. Writing from an ...
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Remapping Europe’s racisms

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 ...