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Donate to the IRR ▶ http://irr.org.uk/donate
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November 27, 2025 at 4:19 PM
🗓 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'.
📃 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...
July 1, 2025 at 11:03 AM
July 1, 2025 at 11:03 AM
June 26, 2025 at 12:12 PM
🗞️ Recent stories from the racist riots in Ballymena, Northern Ireland.
For more on this and other stories read our latest calendar ➡️ irr.org.uk/article/cale...
For more on this and other stories read our latest calendar ➡️ irr.org.uk/article/cale...
June 26, 2025 at 12:12 PM
🗞️ Recent stories from the racist riots in Ballymena, Northern Ireland.
For more on this and other stories read our latest calendar ➡️ irr.org.uk/article/cale...
For more on this and other stories read our latest calendar ➡️ irr.org.uk/article/cale...
Race & Class contributor Iida Käyhkö gives the back-story in counter-terrorist policing that criminalises the political identity and aspirations of the Kurdish diaspora.
June 11, 2025 at 6:14 AM
Race & Class contributor Iida Käyhkö gives the back-story in counter-terrorist policing that criminalises the political identity and aspirations of the Kurdish diaspora.
April 2011: following a raid by 160 riot police on a squat in the Stokes Croft area of Bristol, young people clash with police. Race & Class contributor Matt Clement compares what’s known as the ‘Tesco riots’(against gentrification) to the events of April 1980.
June 11, 2025 at 6:14 AM
April 2011: following a raid by 160 riot police on a squat in the Stokes Croft area of Bristol, young people clash with police. Race & Class contributor Matt Clement compares what’s known as the ‘Tesco riots’(against gentrification) to the events of April 1980.
2001: violent confrontations between young Asians and the police in the northern towns of Oldham, Burnley and Bradford.
Racist gangs had attacked Asian communities and yet it was the Asian youths who faced mass arrests and heavy-handed policing.
Racist gangs had attacked Asian communities and yet it was the Asian youths who faced mass arrests and heavy-handed policing.
June 11, 2025 at 6:14 AM
2001: violent confrontations between young Asians and the police in the northern towns of Oldham, Burnley and Bradford.
Racist gangs had attacked Asian communities and yet it was the Asian youths who faced mass arrests and heavy-handed policing.
Racist gangs had attacked Asian communities and yet it was the Asian youths who faced mass arrests and heavy-handed policing.
Deaths following police contact included Joy Gardner (‘93), Christopher Alder (‘98), and Roger Sylvester (‘99).
June 11, 2025 at 6:14 AM
Deaths following police contact included Joy Gardner (‘93), Christopher Alder (‘98), and Roger Sylvester (‘99).
Autumn 1985: violent confrontations between young people and police in Handsworth, Tottenham (Broadwater Farm) and Brixton. Also the first-time police authorised to use plastic bullets in England.
June 11, 2025 at 6:14 AM
Autumn 1985: violent confrontations between young people and police in Handsworth, Tottenham (Broadwater Farm) and Brixton. Also the first-time police authorised to use plastic bullets in England.
August 1977: Met police used riot shields for the first time in Britain during running battles in Lewisham between police and anti-fascists. Then a month later at Notting Hill Carnival.
June 11, 2025 at 6:14 AM
August 1977: Met police used riot shields for the first time in Britain during running battles in Lewisham between police and anti-fascists. Then a month later at Notting Hill Carnival.
⚖️We’re launching our Race & Class criminal justice archive and timeline.
Here are some moments that draw from the timeline in the last 50 years that you might want to know more about ⤵️
Here are some moments that draw from the timeline in the last 50 years that you might want to know more about ⤵️
June 11, 2025 at 6:14 AM
⚖️We’re launching our Race & Class criminal justice archive and timeline.
Here are some moments that draw from the timeline in the last 50 years that you might want to know more about ⤵️
Here are some moments that draw from the timeline in the last 50 years that you might want to know more about ⤵️
🚨On the 5th anniversary of the death of George Floyd - paramilitary policing is growing across the globe, especially in Europe.
May 25, 2025 at 7:35 AM
🚨On the 5th anniversary of the death of George Floyd - paramilitary policing is growing across the globe, especially in Europe.
🗞️🗞️IRR NEWS THIS WEEK!
This editorial analyses Labour's recent decisions in the run up to local elections to publish migrant crime statistics, & amendments to bar sex offenders from Refugee Convention protection - pandering to base populism.
bit.ly/IRRNEWS02052...
This editorial analyses Labour's recent decisions in the run up to local elections to publish migrant crime statistics, & amendments to bar sex offenders from Refugee Convention protection - pandering to base populism.
bit.ly/IRRNEWS02052...
May 2, 2025 at 1:17 PM
🗞️🗞️IRR NEWS THIS WEEK!
This editorial analyses Labour's recent decisions in the run up to local elections to publish migrant crime statistics, & amendments to bar sex offenders from Refugee Convention protection - pandering to base populism.
bit.ly/IRRNEWS02052...
This editorial analyses Labour's recent decisions in the run up to local elections to publish migrant crime statistics, & amendments to bar sex offenders from Refugee Convention protection - pandering to base populism.
bit.ly/IRRNEWS02052...
IRR NEWS THIS WEEK ✍️
Connecting the cuts: disability, borders and race
🖊️ Editorial
🗓️ Calendar of Racism & Resistance
📰 IRR statement on the Met police raid on Westminster Quaker Meeting House
bit.ly/IRRNEWS03042...
Connecting the cuts: disability, borders and race
🖊️ Editorial
🗓️ Calendar of Racism & Resistance
📰 IRR statement on the Met police raid on Westminster Quaker Meeting House
bit.ly/IRRNEWS03042...
April 3, 2025 at 4:05 PM
IRR NEWS THIS WEEK ✍️
Connecting the cuts: disability, borders and race
🖊️ Editorial
🗓️ Calendar of Racism & Resistance
📰 IRR statement on the Met police raid on Westminster Quaker Meeting House
bit.ly/IRRNEWS03042...
Connecting the cuts: disability, borders and race
🖊️ Editorial
🗓️ Calendar of Racism & Resistance
📰 IRR statement on the Met police raid on Westminster Quaker Meeting House
bit.ly/IRRNEWS03042...
📢 Across Europe, governments are ramping up anti-migrant policies, slashing aid, and securitising borders. Europe’s shift towards exclusionary policies is accelerating—what does this mean for human rights? in our latest calendar: irr.org.uk/article/cale... 🧵(1/6)
March 25, 2025 at 11:51 AM
📢 Across Europe, governments are ramping up anti-migrant policies, slashing aid, and securitising borders. Europe’s shift towards exclusionary policies is accelerating—what does this mean for human rights? in our latest calendar: irr.org.uk/article/cale... 🧵(1/6)
IRR News this week ⤵️
Asylum seekers – pawns in the defence review
As Starmer increases spending on defence, asylum seekers have once again emerged as pawns in a spending review that will ultimately pit them against the poorest in the Global South.
bit.ly/IRRNEWS06032...
Asylum seekers – pawns in the defence review
As Starmer increases spending on defence, asylum seekers have once again emerged as pawns in a spending review that will ultimately pit them against the poorest in the Global South.
bit.ly/IRRNEWS06032...
March 6, 2025 at 4:44 PM
IRR News this week ⤵️
Asylum seekers – pawns in the defence review
As Starmer increases spending on defence, asylum seekers have once again emerged as pawns in a spending review that will ultimately pit them against the poorest in the Global South.
bit.ly/IRRNEWS06032...
Asylum seekers – pawns in the defence review
As Starmer increases spending on defence, asylum seekers have once again emerged as pawns in a spending review that will ultimately pit them against the poorest in the Global South.
bit.ly/IRRNEWS06032...