Systemic injustice and the criminal legal system
Racism seeps into every aspect of criminal ‘justice’ and radical scholars are exposing the breadth and depth of the issue. The April 2024 issue of Race & Class contains cutting-edge articles on the criminal legal system, adding to a growing number of campaigns voices rejecting the normalisation of systemic…
Mainstreaming hate: how the Right exploits the crisis to divide us
This briefing paper asks if it makes sense any more to isolate the far Right from a reconfigured, identitarian and traditionalist hard Right. It attempts to do so by providing a detailed but easily accessible account of how far-right ideas have already passed into the mainstream and what we…
‘County lines’: racism, safeguarding and statecraft in Britain
‘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 in the IRR’s journal Race & Class. ‘County Lines’ refers to the government and police’s unique crime label for…
An anatomy of the British ‘War on Woke’
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. What does the ambiguous, catch-all term ‘woke’ actually mean, and how has it become central to the UK’s political discourse…
Watch: What is Antiracism?
A book launch and conversation with Dr Arun Kundnani, author of What Is Antiracism? And Why It Means Anticapitalism, also featuring Professor Ruth Wilson Gilmore. 13th July 2023 | Brunei Gallery, SOAS University of London | Co-hosted with the Independent Social Research Foundation Why has liberalism been ineffective at combating…
Abolition, internationalism and communities of resistance
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, examined ‘New Circuits of Anti-Racism’ at a conference gathering. The July 2023 special issue of Race & Class, guest-edited by the…
Watch and listen: IRR50 New circuits of anti-racism with Surviving Society podcast
Last year marked the 50th anniversary of the radical transformation of the IRR. To celebrate our history, past, present and future we created a series of events, projects and activities as part of IRR50. The IRR was proud to present New Circuits of Anti-racism – an IRR50 conference on racism,…
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. A year on from the start of Russia’s brutal invasion of Ukraine, IRR director Liz Fekete in the April issue of Race & Class…
Civilisational racism, ethnonationalism and the clash of imperialisms in Ukraine
As rallies take place across Europe to mark the first anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine and calls for a peace process to end the conflict grow, Liz Fekete, a leading expert on European racism, pinpoints the need to examine how new geopolitics, changing imperialisms and the entrenching…
Britannia Enchained
As the economy unravels, we are seeing an increasingly aggressive government squaring up to an expanding list of enemies, heedless of legal and moral restraints and of the impact on country and people, argues Frances Webber. ‘Move fast and break things’ used to be the mantra of tech whizz-kid…