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The critical condition of the eight hunger strikers whose actions seek to draw attention to the ongoing genocide in Gaza, remind us of British colonialism, which is a structure of domination that continues to this day 🇵🇸⤵️
December 18, 2025 at 5:32 PM
The critical condition of the eight hunger strikers whose actions seek to draw attention to the ongoing genocide in Gaza, remind us of British colonialism, which is a structure of domination that continues to this day 🇵🇸⤵️
‘The Palestinian diaspora - by the very nature of its history, locale and time- carries with it the contagion of revolution.'
A. Sivanandan, 1976
A. Sivanandan, 1976
December 18, 2025 at 12:17 PM
‘The Palestinian diaspora - by the very nature of its history, locale and time- carries with it the contagion of revolution.'
A. Sivanandan, 1976
A. Sivanandan, 1976
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Calendar of Racism and Resistance (25 November – 9 December)
Thanks also to [...] the Never Again Association, whose regular updates on #migration, #farright, racial violence, employment and policing issues are an invaluable source of information
@irrnews.bsky.social
irr.org.uk/article/cale...
Thanks also to [...] the Never Again Association, whose regular updates on #migration, #farright, racial violence, employment and policing issues are an invaluable source of information
@irrnews.bsky.social
irr.org.uk/article/cale...
Calendar of Racism and Resistance ( 25 November - 9 December 2025) - Institute of Race Relations
ELECTORAL POLITICS| GOVERNMENT POLICY 25 November: A Dutch MP announces that the European Parliament’s controversial security working group probe into EU funding of climate advocacy groups will be ex...
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December 14, 2025 at 7:31 AM
Calendar of Racism and Resistance (25 November – 9 December)
Thanks also to [...] the Never Again Association, whose regular updates on #migration, #farright, racial violence, employment and policing issues are an invaluable source of information
@irrnews.bsky.social
irr.org.uk/article/cale...
Thanks also to [...] the Never Again Association, whose regular updates on #migration, #farright, racial violence, employment and policing issues are an invaluable source of information
@irrnews.bsky.social
irr.org.uk/article/cale...
❗Migrant gig workers continue to face increased targeting and criminalisation from multi-agency approaches
For more stories read our latest race and resistance calendar: irr.org.uk/article/cale...
For more stories read our latest race and resistance calendar: irr.org.uk/article/cale...
December 12, 2025 at 3:45 PM
❗Migrant gig workers continue to face increased targeting and criminalisation from multi-agency approaches
For more stories read our latest race and resistance calendar: irr.org.uk/article/cale...
For more stories read our latest race and resistance calendar: irr.org.uk/article/cale...
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Glad to see this out, co-authored with @nicholasbeuret.bsky.social and @davidharvie.bsky.social ! Huge thanks to the editors at Race & Class for their support and enthusiasm for the article.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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The mobilisation of refugee labour for carbon credits as maladaptive practice - Nicholas Beuret, Matilda Fitzmaurice, David Harvie, 2025
The Refugee Environmental Protection (REP) Fund is a programme designed to turn refugees and their labour into a source of carbon credits for global carbon mark...
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December 11, 2025 at 8:39 AM
Glad to see this out, co-authored with @nicholasbeuret.bsky.social and @davidharvie.bsky.social ! Huge thanks to the editors at Race & Class for their support and enthusiasm for the article.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
✊🏽'The People We Are Writing For’ by Sophia Siddique, our Race & Class Deputy editor for Skin Deep's latest issue: skindeepmag.com/products/anthology/
December 10, 2025 at 11:24 AM
✊🏽'The People We Are Writing For’ by Sophia Siddique, our Race & Class Deputy editor for Skin Deep's latest issue: skindeepmag.com/products/anthology/
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Are you based in London and unsure how to get to the Migrant Workers' Rally this Saturday? We've got you covered.
🚌We have booked a 60 seat coach for anyone London-based who wants to support the demo.
Find out more and register now: lnkd.in/enYTfAaq
🚌We have booked a 60 seat coach for anyone London-based who wants to support the demo.
Find out more and register now: lnkd.in/enYTfAaq
Mobilise on Shabana Mahmood’s Turf 📣13 December 12pm
Now is the time for everyone, no matter their immigration, visa or citizenship status, to be in solidarity with migrant workers and 📢say together we work, together we rise
@jcwi-uk.bsky.social @regulariseuk.bsky.social @asylummatters.bsky.social
Now is the time for everyone, no matter their immigration, visa or citizenship status, to be in solidarity with migrant workers and 📢say together we work, together we rise
@jcwi-uk.bsky.social @regulariseuk.bsky.social @asylummatters.bsky.social
December 8, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Are you based in London and unsure how to get to the Migrant Workers' Rally this Saturday? We've got you covered.
🚌We have booked a 60 seat coach for anyone London-based who wants to support the demo.
Find out more and register now: lnkd.in/enYTfAaq
🚌We have booked a 60 seat coach for anyone London-based who wants to support the demo.
Find out more and register now: lnkd.in/enYTfAaq
‼️ Far-right activity documented in our latest race and resistance calendar ⤵️
irr.org.uk/article/cale...
irr.org.uk/article/cale...
December 8, 2025 at 12:08 PM
‼️ Far-right activity documented in our latest race and resistance calendar ⤵️
irr.org.uk/article/cale...
irr.org.uk/article/cale...
This week IRR's Sophia Siddiqui took part in a panel at the London Migration Film Festival, at a screening of Soleil Ô - a landmark piece of political cinema on colonialism, capitalism and migration by legendary director Med Hondo
Thank you for having us at your 10th annual edition!
Thank you for having us at your 10th annual edition!
December 3, 2025 at 11:04 AM
This week IRR's Sophia Siddiqui took part in a panel at the London Migration Film Festival, at a screening of Soleil Ô - a landmark piece of political cinema on colonialism, capitalism and migration by legendary director Med Hondo
Thank you for having us at your 10th annual edition!
Thank you for having us at your 10th annual edition!
November 27, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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We've written to the Home Secretary and Chair of the National Police Chiefs’ Council raising our concerns that guidance encouraging police forces to disclose the ethnicity and nationality of suspects charged in high-profile cases is having a devastating impact on our country.
Police disclosing suspects’ ethnicity is fuelling prejudice, say campaigners
Fifty groups write letter calling for policy in high-profile cases in England and Wales to be scrapped
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 11:15 AM
We've written to the Home Secretary and Chair of the National Police Chiefs’ Council raising our concerns that guidance encouraging police forces to disclose the ethnicity and nationality of suspects charged in high-profile cases is having a devastating impact on our country.
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Have you heard Sideways Sociology? Three audio essays on three landmark figures of UK anti-racism: Ambalavaner Sivanandan, Len Garrison and Gerlin Bean. Engage, learn, share! @blackhistorymonth.org.uk #blackhistory #antiracism @irrnews.bsky.social buff.ly/Wcn1lzK
October 31, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Have you heard Sideways Sociology? Three audio essays on three landmark figures of UK anti-racism: Ambalavaner Sivanandan, Len Garrison and Gerlin Bean. Engage, learn, share! @blackhistorymonth.org.uk #blackhistory #antiracism @irrnews.bsky.social buff.ly/Wcn1lzK
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New article from Siobhan O'Neill
📝Understanding UK state violence and resistance in police pursuit killings
Out now in @irrnews.bsky.social Race & Class journal
@uomsociology.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1177/0306...
📝Understanding UK state violence and resistance in police pursuit killings
Out now in @irrnews.bsky.social Race & Class journal
@uomsociology.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1177/0306...
Understanding UK state violence and resistance in police pursuit killings - Siobhan O’neill, 2025
Racially minoritised and working-class communities in the UK continue to be underprotected and overpoliced. One aspect of that overpolicing that has thus far be...
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November 6, 2025 at 12:00 PM
New article from Siobhan O'Neill
📝Understanding UK state violence and resistance in police pursuit killings
Out now in @irrnews.bsky.social Race & Class journal
@uomsociology.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1177/0306...
📝Understanding UK state violence and resistance in police pursuit killings
Out now in @irrnews.bsky.social Race & Class journal
@uomsociology.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1177/0306...
Robert Jenrick saw “no white faces” in Handsworth, calling it “unintegrated.”
Mukhtar Dar, artist and founder of the Sheffield Asian Youth Movement, saw something else ⤵️
irr.org.uk/article/hand...
Mukhtar Dar, artist and founder of the Sheffield Asian Youth Movement, saw something else ⤵️
irr.org.uk/article/hand...
Handsworth: the colour Jenrick couldn’t see - Institute of Race Relations
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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October 23, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Robert Jenrick saw “no white faces” in Handsworth, calling it “unintegrated.”
Mukhtar Dar, artist and founder of the Sheffield Asian Youth Movement, saw something else ⤵️
irr.org.uk/article/hand...
Mukhtar Dar, artist and founder of the Sheffield Asian Youth Movement, saw something else ⤵️
irr.org.uk/article/hand...
🗓 Last month's Calendar of Racism & Resistance shows how nationalism is weaponised against asylum seekers, against Palestine, & against anyone who dares to resist.
irr.org.uk/article/cale...
irr.org.uk/article/cale...
October 13, 2025 at 11:20 AM
🗓 Last month's Calendar of Racism & Resistance shows how nationalism is weaponised against asylum seekers, against Palestine, & against anyone who dares to resist.
irr.org.uk/article/cale...
irr.org.uk/article/cale...
IRR joined activists and other migrant organisations for a day of sharing knowledge and building power on how to defeat far-right racism. We keep on fighting ✊🏽
🗣️A day of important and inspiring contributions at the festival of radical politics.
🗣️A day of important and inspiring contributions at the festival of radical politics.
September 29, 2025 at 12:41 PM
IRR joined activists and other migrant organisations for a day of sharing knowledge and building power on how to defeat far-right racism. We keep on fighting ✊🏽
🗣️A day of important and inspiring contributions at the festival of radical politics.
🗣️A day of important and inspiring contributions at the festival of radical politics.
✊🏽 On Tuesday, trade unionists came together at a TUC Cymru Rebuilding Unity Conference creating space to explore how we build anti-racism across our movement.
September 25, 2025 at 3:06 PM
✊🏽 On Tuesday, trade unionists came together at a TUC Cymru Rebuilding Unity Conference creating space to explore how we build anti-racism across our movement.
September 19, 2025 at 12:33 PM
🔈"We need community defence and a national movement against racial violence"
Today, IRR Director Liz Fekete spoke on a panel at Leeds Beckett University symposium on 'Reflecting on the Riots: Racism, Islamophobia and Community Resistance'.
Today, IRR Director Liz Fekete spoke on a panel at Leeds Beckett University symposium on 'Reflecting on the Riots: Racism, Islamophobia and Community Resistance'.
September 10, 2025 at 4:00 PM
🔈"We need community defence and a national movement against racial violence"
Today, IRR Director Liz Fekete spoke on a panel at Leeds Beckett University symposium on 'Reflecting on the Riots: Racism, Islamophobia and Community Resistance'.
Today, IRR Director Liz Fekete spoke on a panel at Leeds Beckett University symposium on 'Reflecting on the Riots: Racism, Islamophobia and Community Resistance'.
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We are hiring a new Executive Director! Could it be you?
If so, please apply by 6 October! If not, please share widely.
Role description and application portal here:
buff.ly/Slyukaw
If so, please apply by 6 October! If not, please share widely.
Role description and application portal here:
buff.ly/Slyukaw
September 8, 2025 at 11:00 AM
We are hiring a new Executive Director! Could it be you?
If so, please apply by 6 October! If not, please share widely.
Role description and application portal here:
buff.ly/Slyukaw
If so, please apply by 6 October! If not, please share widely.
Role description and application portal here:
buff.ly/Slyukaw
📃 In this week's IRR newsletter we highlight the recent increased activity of the far Right over the past few weeks..
Read the full newsletter: bit.ly/IRRNEWS24072...
Read the full newsletter: bit.ly/IRRNEWS24072...
July 25, 2025 at 10:15 AM
📃 In this week's IRR newsletter we highlight the recent increased activity of the far Right over the past few weeks..
Read the full newsletter: bit.ly/IRRNEWS24072...
Read the full newsletter: bit.ly/IRRNEWS24072...
🚨EXCLUSIVE: Our interim findings (based on 126 case studies) show almost ONE THIRD of people faced charges for resisting the Summer 2024 riots and these were mostly young Muslim men.
irr.org.uk/article/equa...
irr.org.uk/article/equa...
‘Equally culpable’ in the courtroom: how the CJS responded to the Summer 2024 far-right orchestrated racist riots - Institute of Race Relations
There has been a concerted attempt by politicians to erase the fact that last Summer’s far-right orchestrated riots were marked by extreme racist violence. But are the courts guilty of similar erasu...
irr.org.uk
July 23, 2025 at 3:36 PM
🚨EXCLUSIVE: Our interim findings (based on 126 case studies) show almost ONE THIRD of people faced charges for resisting the Summer 2024 riots and these were mostly young Muslim men.
irr.org.uk/article/equa...
irr.org.uk/article/equa...
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What’s tech got to do with racism? How do global struggles connect to local ones? In Sideways Sociology: UK Anti-Racism, @johnnarayan.bsky.social @irrnews.bsky.social @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social celebrates Siva’s essay “New Circuits of Imperialism”
Tune in: buff.ly/9ImtmBr
Tune in: buff.ly/9ImtmBr
July 8, 2025 at 7:01 AM
What’s tech got to do with racism? How do global struggles connect to local ones? In Sideways Sociology: UK Anti-Racism, @johnnarayan.bsky.social @irrnews.bsky.social @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social celebrates Siva’s essay “New Circuits of Imperialism”
Tune in: buff.ly/9ImtmBr
Tune in: buff.ly/9ImtmBr
July 1, 2025 at 11:03 AM
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The Amiel & Melburn Annual lecture is happening this Wednesday!
A stellar lineup discussing how the Left can resist the Rise of the Radical Right, hosted at Birkbeck.
@kojokoram.bsky.social, @irrnews.bsky.social @afoggyplace.bsky.social @bethanyrielly.bsky.social @robtoes.bsky.social
A stellar lineup discussing how the Left can resist the Rise of the Radical Right, hosted at Birkbeck.
@kojokoram.bsky.social, @irrnews.bsky.social @afoggyplace.bsky.social @bethanyrielly.bsky.social @robtoes.bsky.social
June 30, 2025 at 11:01 AM
The Amiel & Melburn Annual lecture is happening this Wednesday!
A stellar lineup discussing how the Left can resist the Rise of the Radical Right, hosted at Birkbeck.
@kojokoram.bsky.social, @irrnews.bsky.social @afoggyplace.bsky.social @bethanyrielly.bsky.social @robtoes.bsky.social
A stellar lineup discussing how the Left can resist the Rise of the Radical Right, hosted at Birkbeck.
@kojokoram.bsky.social, @irrnews.bsky.social @afoggyplace.bsky.social @bethanyrielly.bsky.social @robtoes.bsky.social