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.

✊🏽 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.

Latest stories from our calendar of racism and resistance ⤵️ irr.org.uk/article/cale...

🔈"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'.

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

📃 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...

🚨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...

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

🗓 Recent stories on Race, Migration & the Far-Right ⤵️ irr.org.uk/article/cale...

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

excellent, as per usual…

🗞️ 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...

⚖️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 ⤵️

OUT NOW: New podcast on three key figures in UK anti-racism – Sivanandan, Gerlin Bean, Len Garrison – showing how their work and ideas speak to sociology and to what it means to be anti-racist. Feat. John Narayan, A.S. Francis, Hannah Ismael. Subscribe: buff.ly/lRwSQSD

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

Calendar of Racism and Resistance (15 - 28 May) For more stories from the past two weeks read ⤵️ irr.org.uk/article/cale...

🚨Amiel & Melburn Lecture 2025 A special panel discussion on 'Resisting the rise of the Radical Right' with @zarahsultana.bsky.social, Costas Douzinas, Rob Topinka, @kojokoram.bsky.social, @irrnews.bsky.social, @afoggyplace.bsky.social 🗓️Wed 2 July 🕠17:30PM 📍Birkbeck University INFO & REGISTER 👇

Important new report out today ⬇️

Important new report from our colleagues at @irrnews.bsky.social ⬇️

A new report by @irrnews.bsky.social 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 irr.org.uk/article/para...

‼️New IRR study warns of Europe's creeping authoritarianism with increased used of weaponry against racialised minorities ⤵️ www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

🚨On the 5th anniversary of the death of George Floyd - paramilitary policing is growing across the globe, especially in Europe.

📅As the prime minister unveils measures in an immigration white paper to cut net migration, our latest calendar shows how xenophobic and nativist rhetoric is becoming normalised. For more stories from the past two weeks read ⤵️ irr.org.uk/article/cale...

A. Sivanandan 🔊“What Enoch Powell says today, the Conservative Party says tomorrow, and the Labour Party legislates on the day after.” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m... @rajeevsyal.bsky.social

Calendar of Racism and Resistance (15-30 April) Thanks also to [...] the Never Again Association, whose regular updates on asylum, migration, far right, racial violence, employment and policing issues are an invaluable source of information. @irrnews.bsky.social irr.org.uk/article/cale...

🗞️🗞️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...

#DisabilityAndMigrationJustice 📢Damn Boarders, End Barriers 📢Disability And Migration Conference 📢28.06.25 📢11am to 5pm 📢Resource For London 356 Holloway Road London N7 6PA 📢You need to register for a place at this conference and can do this via the link dpac.uk.net/2025/04/disa...

This year’s Kay Everett Memorial Lecture will be given by Frances Webber, Vice-chair of @irrnews.bsky.social ‘Unmaking Rights: Government Policy and the Future of Refugees and Migrants’ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/kay-everet...

🛑In this week's Calendar we highlight the Met's plans to install the UK’s first permanent live facial recognition (LFR) cameras in Croydon face objections from local councillors on the grounds of disproportionality & over-policing of certain communities. www.computerweekly.com/news/3666223...

#NoToAusterity @peoplesassembly.bsky.social have called a National Demo & rally in central London 📢 Saturday 7th June 2025 📢12 noon 📢look out for further announcements of March Demo

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...

🚨IRR Statement on the Met police raid on Westminster Quaker Meeting House 🧵⤵️ www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-eve...

📢 New Report: “Still Not Heard, Still Not Safe” – Discriminatory Policing in Ireland 🚨 Our new research study reveals alarming rates of discriminatory policing, racial profiling, and a deep lack of trust in An Garda Síochána within African & Brazilian communities in Ireland. #PolicingAndRacism

From forced pushbacks to shipwrecks, EU migration control policies continue to cost lives. Policies designed to ‘secure’ Europe’s borders are directly responsible for these tragedies. A thread on border violence in this week’s calendar: irr.org.uk/article/cale...

📢 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)

The People’s Tribunal on Police Killings takes place on 5-6 April 2025 at Regents University in London, with families of loved ones killed by the police giving their evidence to an international panel. Register to attend: www.eventbrite.com/e/the-people...

The Trump administration's attack on DEI & ‘woke’ embolden the far-Right in Germany where AfD want to sack professors. In Finland, 800 academics say universities must resist US pressure. 🗓️Read the Education section of our calendar to keep up to date ⤵️ irr.org.uk/article/cale...

🚨Mental Health is used selectively following a crime. When suspects are Muslim, or immigrants, mental health is downplayed, but when suspects are white —even a neo-Nazi—their state of mind suddenly matters.

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...

Calendar of Racism and Resistance (4-18 February) Thanks also to [...] the Never Again Association, whose regular updates on migration, far right, racial violence, employment and policing issues are an invaluable source of information. @irrnews.bsky.social t.co/cmLkfYsNva

Belated link to this, with a deeply moving article about creeping fascism on the German border by the wonderful Insa Koch, and tributes to three great anti-racists we’ve lost, including Marika Sherwood, whose historical scholarship was a major impact on my first academic writings.

✊🏿Remembering anti-racist stalwarts in threatening times 🗞️⤵️IRR News this week includes: 🖊️ Editorial 📅 Calendar of Racism & Resistance 📰 New article by Insa Koch bit.ly/IRRNEWS20022...

When they get at your children: how fascism is on the rise in the lead up to German elections. 🖊️In this piece Insa Koch describes an encounter with airport police which makes her fear for Germany’s future. irr.org.uk/article/when...

🚨IRR News this week⤵️ The racist roots of last Summer's riots cannot be normalised 🖊️Editorial 🗓️Calendar of Racism & Resistance 📰 IRR statement 📚Latest issue of Race & Class bit.ly/IRRNEWS07022...

The ‘hostile environment’ is a continuation of a long history of racist, xenophobic immigration policies - designed to exclude people of colour. It is a form of modern racism. Our new report shows the role politicians and the media play in fuelling the racist violence we saw six months ago.

In the week marking six months since the racist riots, with over 60 other organisations we're calling on the government to take action on the growing threat of the far right. It's time our politicians lead by example, in policy and in practice. Read our joint statement 👉 ow.ly/iNw150UPuVw

✍🏾 Runnymede Trust findings that the language used during parliamentary debates on immigration contributes to an environment of racism is reinforced today by IRR interim research on charging & sentencing patterns following the Summer 2024 racist riots. irr.org.uk/article/irr-...

✊🏾It was great to work with @runnymedetrust.bsky.social & others on this joint statement now signed by over 60 racial justice, migrants rights & Muslim organisations who warn of the continuation of the racism that sparked the summer 2024 racist riots ⤵️ www.runnymedetrust.org/news/six-mon...

Former seasonal agricultural workers have gathered outside the Home Office today to protest working conditions on farms and better modern slavery protections. Organised by @uvwunion.bsky.social Landworkers Alliance and Libera.

Deputy Director role at the Institute of Race Relations @irrnews.bsky.social irr.org.uk/about/vacanc...