📊 Gorton and Denton by-election: the instrumentalisation of anti-extermism.
🖇 Full editorial here preview.mailerlite.com/r9g9m8g8q0
05.03.2026 16:21
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03.03.2026 11:16
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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
03.03.2026 11:16
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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...
26.02.2026 17:50
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February 2026: Just as much carrot as stick
Government takes measured stance on youth violence prevention; police chiefs admit racial bias in AI-enabled surveillance tech... press on with adoption anyway
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...
28.02.2026 09:03
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❗Recent news this February as documented in our race and resistance calendar on Europe and the far Right.
irr.org.uk/article/cale...
20.02.2026 11:44
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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
19.02.2026 15:48
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Rights groups urge airlines to halt ‘one in, one out’ deportation flights
British and French activists write to Air France, AlbaStar, Titan and Corendon airlines over ‘shameful involvement’
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...
19.02.2026 15:48
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Read the full report here: irr.org.uk/wp-content/u...
18.02.2026 13:33
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Courts downplayed racism of 2024 riots treating far right violence as ‘mindless thuggery’, says IRR study – The Justice Gap
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...
18.02.2026 13:33
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Palestine Action ban ruled unlawful by High Court 🇵🇸🇵🇸
irr.org.uk/article/stat...
13.02.2026 16:10
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Confronting racial authoritarianism: lessons from apartheid South Africa - Zachary Levenson, Marcel Paret, 2026
In the face of burgeoning authoritarianism in the United States, this article turns to South Africa’s anti-apartheid movement for lessons in contesting this reg...
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.
11.02.2026 18:04
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🎙️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-...
13.02.2026 12:29
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🚨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.
13.02.2026 12:25
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Read the full newsletter here: preview.mailerlite.com/u2p3e6l3r5
11.02.2026 14:50
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🛑 IRR NEWS
From Minneapolis to Manchester - the normalisation of force
irr.org.uk/article/from...
11.02.2026 14:50
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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...
11.02.2026 10:39
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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...
28.01.2026 14:03
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Responding to the threat of the far right
On 21 January the NUJ Black Members’ Council (BMC) held a well-attended webinar on responding to the threat of the far right.
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
04.02.2026 12:10
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O’Neill's research emerges out of community organising with the #EndPolicePursuits (EPP) campaign and Northern Police Monitoring Project (NPMP)
@ethnicityuk.bsky.social
05.02.2026 12:03
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