Press releases
Against Racism, for Social Justice

The October 2016 of Race & Class leads with two very timely and politically-provoking articles on the international impact of securitisation.

As the police investigate the murder of a Polish factory worker in Harlow, the Institute of Race Relations publishes today its evidence to the House of Commons Home Affairs Committee Inquiry into Hate Crime and its Violent Consequences.

The latest issue of Race & Class is devoted to black political struggle in the UK 1950s-1980s.

The IRR publishes its submission to the Labour Party Inquiry into anti-Semitism and other forms of racism, including Islamophobia. 

The latest issue of Race & Class features articles examining the roots of paramilitary and structural violence in Jamaica and Hungary.

An IRR discussion paper on the Housing and Planning and Immigration Bills 2015-16.

A paper[1], Prevent and the Children's Rights Convention, published today by the Institute of Race Relations supports the NUT's call[2] for a more rational debate on the Prevent duty in schools.

The January 2016 issue of Race & Class is a special issue on the theme of ‘reparative histories’.

The latest issue of Race & Class features Mark McGovern’s timely analysis of the colonial roots of state violence and collusion in Northern Ireland.

The July issue of Race & Class takes up three topical themes: the monetarisation of private information, the politics of film and the demonisation of ‘anti-racism’.

The April 2015 issue of Race & Class argues that Northern Ireland’s BAME communities have been living the peace process in reverse.

The IRR publishes a disturbing new report, Unwanted, unnoticed: an audit of 160 asylum and immigration-related deaths in Europe, revealing the extent of Europe’s departure from its vaunted humanitarian ideals.

On Monday 23 March, the Institute of Race Relations published Dying for Justice which gives the  background on 509 people (an average of twenty-two per year) from BAME, refugee and migrant communities who have died between 1991-2014 in suspicious circumstances in which the police, prison authorities or immigration detention officers have been implicated. 

The January 2015 issue of Race & Class explores poverty, ‘race’ and criminal justice.

A new IRR briefing paper examines the deaths of foreign national prisoners in the UK.

Following the acquittal  on 16 December of the G4S guards charged with the manslaughter of  Jimmy Mubenga, IRR vice-chair Frances Webber focuses on the judge's decision to rule inadmissible evidence pointing to endemic racism within G4S.

The latest issue of Race & Class, ‘Memory and hope’, contains a special section on the possibilities for peace and autonomy in Kashmir.

In a timely report published today, the IRR cautions against the importation to the UK of Scandinavian-style Exit programmes for dealing with far-right extremists.

The latest issue of Race & Class examines the consequences of the co-option of charities and voluntary organisations within the immigration detention market.