July 2025 One year after the orchestrated far-right racist riots of summer 2024 that followed the horrific murders of Bebe ...

There has been a  concerted attempt by politicians to erase the fact that last Summer’s  far-right orchestrated riots were ...

This issue features a lead article by by Gholam Khiabany and Milly Williamson on migration and securitisation in contemporary ...

For the IRR team of staff and volunteers who put together our regular Calendar of Racism and Resistance, summer 2025 has ...

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 ...

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 ...

‘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 ...

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 Hungary and Georgia) was an ...

A collection of summaries of and links to Race & Class articles (1975-2025) on racism, class, criminal justice, related urban and ‘race’ policies, and key moments of resistance to state/institutional ...

Insa Lee Koch, Chair of British Cultures at the University of St Gallen, Switzerland, author of Personalizing the State, and member of the editorial working committee of Race & Class, describes an ...

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, ...

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 ...