‼️ Read IRR's report 'Enforcing Britishness: from the numbers game to far-right vigilantes' ⤵️ 🔗https://bit.ly/3NeOBhC

🚨Whilst far-right narratives continue to enforce britishness it is vital that we fight back against this intimidation. For more research and analysis around this read IRR report 'Enforcing Britishness: from the numbers game to far-right vigilantes' irr.org.uk/article/enfo...

📊 Gorton and Denton by-election: the instrumentalisation of anti-extermism. 🖇 Full editorial here preview.mailerlite.com/r9g9m8g8q0

Hands off birthright citizenship! We're delighted to be joining Reprieve US and UK alongside others in taking on Trump in the US Supreme Court. Read the full briefing here: bit.ly/4l3uLCt

Today, we’re writing to the Prime Minister, calling on the UK Government to abolish citizenship stripping. Using these extreme powers, the Home Secretary can deprive some British citizens of legal rights simply by saying it is 'conducive to the public good' to do so. reprieve.org/uk/2026/02/2...

February 2026 newsletter: 🗞 Government promises 'tailored support' for youth caught in possession of a knife 🗞 Vetting of police officers still not up to standard 🗞 Pioneering research shines spotlight on ‘police pursuit killings’ @irrnews.bsky.social stopwatchuk.substack.com/p/february-2...

❗Recent news this February as documented in our race and resistance calendar on Europe and the far Right. irr.org.uk/article/cale...

Signatories include: @care4calais.org: @biddetention.bsky.social @gmiau.bsky.social @humansforrights.bsky.social @irrnews.bsky.social @medact.bsky.social @migrantsrights.bsky.social @rainbowmigration.bsky.social @utopia56.bsky.social @projectplayfrance.bsky.social @4refugeewomen.bsky.social

We've written to the four airlines carrying out deportations under the cruel and inhumane UK-France agreement. They are: Air France, Titan Airways, AlbaStar Airlines & Corenden Airlines. We call on them to end their complicity, now. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Our latest report in the @justicegap.bsky.social highlights how the government, police and courts decontextualised the riots, severing them from issues of structural discrimination and systemic racism. www.thejusticegap.com/courts-downp...

Palestine Action ban ruled unlawful by High Court 🇵🇸🇵🇸 irr.org.uk/article/stat...

In a new article for 𝘙𝘢𝘤𝘦 & 𝘊𝘭𝘢𝘴𝘴, Marcel Paret & I turn to apartheid South Africa to think strategically about how to confront racial authoritarianism in the US today. This isn’t analogy for its own sake, but what Stuart Hall calls “delicately disinterring” lessons and transplanting them with care.

🎙️Learn more about our journal Race & Class in this interview with the joint-editors marking Black History Month in the US ⤵️ "The people we are writing for are the people we are fighting for" sagepub.com/explore-our-...

🚨As Trump continues to deploy ICE agents, National Guard troops and active-duty military personnel, Zachary Levenson and Marcel Paret provide a unique take on the current moment in the US by turning to South Africa’s anti-apartheid struggle for lessons in challenging racial authoritarianism today.

🛑 IRR NEWS From Minneapolis to Manchester - the normalisation of force irr.org.uk/article/from...

VACANCY (2 of 2...) Lecturer in Sociology @uomsociology.bsky.social with research expertise in the field(s) of racial inequalities, anti-racism and theoretical debates in ‘race’. Please share - thanks! www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

Come up next week! Online archival workshop on "the Black Radical Press in 1970s Britain" organized in collaboration with the @gpadmoreinstitute.bsky.social and @irrnews.bsky.social: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/archival-w...

Save the date! Join us for an online archival workshop with @gpadmoreinstitute.bsky.social and @irrnews.bsky.social to explore the materials and histories of Black activist publishing in the UK from the 1970s: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/archival-w...

Members - ICYMI: a review of our well-attended webinar on 21 Jan, responding to the threat of the far right. Updates on journalists' safety, anti-SLAPP protections, and #pressfreedom - and some useful resources from @tuc.org.uk @irrnews.bsky.social

📚In the latest issue of Race & Class, Siobhan O’Neill looks at an under-researched aspect of state violence: police pursuits. According to the IOPC, in the last ten years there have been 299 police-related road traffic fatalities in England and Wales. irr.org.uk/article/pion...

An urgent report from @irrnews.bsky.social found that the state response to the riots in Summer 2024 failed to take into serious account the riots’ causes and consequences, and downplayed the anti-immigration racism and Islamophobia. Find the full report here 👉 irr.org.uk/article/poli...

🚨 Analysis from our latest research 🚨 Read the full report via the linktree in our bio: In racism’s echo chamber: the government and criminal justice system’s response to the summer 2024 riots irr.org.uk/article/poli...

🚨Important warning from End Deportations Belfast (@enddbelfast.bsky.social)⤵ Anti-racist group in Northern Ireland concerned that racist violence was being used by paramilitaries for recruitment. www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/norther...

🚨EXCLUSIVE 🚨Our new briefing shows that policy and prosecutorial responses to the summer 2024 riots delink the violence from racism - paving the way for anti-immigration and Islamophobic protests and far-right vigilantism to form an infinite loop. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

IRR NEWS THIS WEEK ⤵️ bit.ly/IRRNEWS08012... Britishness is still treated as conditional, racialised, and disposable. Without citizenship, rights mean little. That should worry everyone.

The blatantly illegal US invasion of Venezuela, only chimes with what we have seen in the past - case in point- Panama Read Joy James' article for Race & Class from 1990 here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

What's happened in the past week ❓ 🗓️ For more stories, read our latest calendar of race and resistance: irr.org.uk/article/cale...

What's happened in the past week ❓ 🗓️ For more stories, read our latest calendar of race and resistance:https://irr.org.uk/article/calendar-of-racism-and-resistance-9-23-december-2025/

To mark and commemorate Siva on his 102th birthday we want to share one of his sayings: "We all wear our passports on our faces"

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

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...

❗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...

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/...

✊🏽'The People We Are Writing For’ by Sophia Siddique, our Race & Class Deputy editor for Skin Deep's latest issue: skindeepmag.com/products/anthology/

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

‼️ Far-right activity documented in our latest race and resistance calendar ⤵️ 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!

Community and neighbourhood belong to us all ✊🏾 irr.org.uk/article/enfo...

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.

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

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...

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...

🗓 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 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