Race & Class
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Quarterly journal on racism, empire and globalisation from the UK Institute of Race Relations (@IRR_News)
London, England
Joined March 2014
🚨 NEW IRR BRIEFING🚨Enforcing Britishness: from the ‘numbers game’ to far-right vigilantism” Those enforcing Britishness divide ‘us’ and ‘them’. Real security lies in solidarity, local democracy and everyday anti-racism. 🔗 https://t.co/EH5GIwZX7e
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Read Bill Rolston's Race & Class blog - 'Ireland and Palestine: the roots of resonance' https://t.co/hUSQacx66B
irr.org.uk
Bill Rolston reflects on the importance of international solidarity today in the context of Israel’s genocidal assault on Gaza and explains why such a resonance exists between Ireland and Palesti...
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Faith communities should be able to gather and worship without fear of harassment or violence. The news that at least two people have died in an attack on Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation synagogue in Greater Manchester is deeply distressing.
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A moment of resistance in youth shaped a lifetime of activism. Nikesh Shukla details how a protest song led him to volunteer with anti-racism groups, including the Institute of Race Relations. ✊🏿 https://t.co/yDcCPizzZQ
theguardian.com
The group’s campaigning single Free Satpal Ram, about a south Asian man jailed for murder after an alleged racist attack, led me to become an activist – with their lead singer as my mentor
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Gareth Peirce interviewed in @Race_Class in 2001: the TA 2000 entails "a complete destruction of freedom of speech" and "cuts off all potential for intelligent political argument or debate about any politics that involves a proscribed organisation..."
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In 2000, a new Terrorism Act, incorporating the broadest ever definition of terrorism and giving police and prosecutors freedom to arrest almost anyone involved...
We need to be quite careful with this, or at least with the implication this wasn’t clearly a potential of the act all along. People did oppose it on civil liberties grounds, Corbyn talked about how innocent people would be locked up.
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"What Enoch Powell says today, the Conservative party says tomorrow, and the Labour party legislates on the day after." ✍️@aamnamohdin leads this piece with a quote from the late A. Sivanandan https://t.co/MCko2bhLxd
theguardian.com
In today’s newsletter: With ‘Operation Restoring Justice’, Nigel Farage has set the political agenda with a maximalist vision on migration. The bigger question is how far mainstream parties will...
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You can now grab your own copy of Nijjor Manush’s first ever book — Inquilab Zindabad? A socialist analysis of Bangladesh after the uprisings. Available as: 📕 130-page book 📖 Summary pamphlet 💻 PDF Grab a copy today 👉 https://t.co/nhdCN2bnYw
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IRR statement on proscription of Palestine Action 👇🏽 https://t.co/a4yNGXYsJb
irr.org.uk
In November 2023, four UN Special Rapporteurs (part of Special Procedures of the Human Rights Council) pointed out that the worldwide climate of criminalisation and sanctions against those speaking...
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🚨🚨New at @Race_Class: "Social reproduction under authoritarian neoliberalism: from Gezi Park to the Yellow Vests" https://t.co/qBwigHFkEw👈🔗📖
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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 @BirkbeckUoL Some free tickets still available 👇 https://t.co/VxmAvP0ClA
🚨EVENT: Amiel & Melburn Lecture 2025 A very special panel discussion on 'Resisting the rise of the Radical Right' with @zarahsultana @CostasDouzinas @robtopinka @KojoKoram @IRR_News @afoggyplace 🗓️Wed 2 July 🕠17:30PM 📍@BirkbeckUoL INFO & REGISTER 👇 https://t.co/a30WO8GQSp
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🗞️ Recent stories from the racist riots in Ballymena, Northern Ireland. For more on this and other stories read our latest calendar ➡️ https://t.co/hQhKUqfCA2
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⚖️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 ⤵️
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🚨On the 5th anniversary of the death of George Floyd - paramilitary policing is growing across the globe, especially in Europe.
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‼️New IRR study warns of Europe's creeping authoritarianism with increased used of weaponry against racialised minorities ⤵️ https://t.co/y4qb55rnIE
theguardian.com
Institute of Race Relations says MoD’s Channel role reflects global rise of ‘hyper-militarisation’ in law enforcement
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A. Sivanandan 🔊“What Enoch Powell says today, the Conservative Party says tomorrow, and the Labour Party legislates on the day after.” https://t.co/GGfAYS3VfE
theguardian.com
PM unveils policies to ‘significantly’ drive down net migration including English tests and degree requirements
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🚨Wayne Farah, a coordinator of the NHS Confederation BME Leadership Network, pulls out of NHS Confederation Expo after Palantir Technologies, which has played a crucial role in US ICE deportations, are included as sponsors. https://t.co/7C2HmmFTBn
bylinetimes.com
An internal NHS Confederation email acknowledged that 'many colleagues will have concerns' about Palantir's inclusion
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"Disabling the Palestinian body politic is a way to systematically erase indigenous people from the land, in this case from Gaza which has, in the words of Rashid Khalidi, refused to be a ‘docile ghetto’." -@Race_Class
https://t.co/knOC87X5Ts👈
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Plus articles on: Black Marxism and the English working class; Nativism in Rajarhat; and Systemic Sectarianism in Northern Ireland. https://t.co/6RdxclbWbf
irr.org.uk
This issue features a lead article by Iida Käyhkö on the targeting of the Kurdish community, which focuses on a recent counter-terror raid on the Kurdish Community Centre in Haringey, London Plus...
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📚The April issue of R&C is out now Featuring a lead article by Iida Käyhkö on the targeting of the Kurdish community, which focuses on a recent counter-terror raid on the Kurdish Community Centre in Haringey, London https://t.co/6RdxclbWbf
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