GOVERNMENT POLICY As anti-migrant, anti-equalities, anti-abortion, misogynistic and anti-LGBTQI rhetoric in electoral campaigning are increasingly interlinked, we reflect this in the coverage below ...

July – 5th August 2025 We tend to think of all the great social movements in history as driven by progressive values – ...

10 July: A leaked cable suggests that the EU Commission’s coordinator on combating antisemitism opposed sanctions against Israel, claiming that starvation in Gaza and other war crimes were ‘rumours’ ...

There has been a concerted attempt by politicians to erase the fact that last Summer’s far-right orchestrated riots were marked by extreme racist violence. But are the courts guilty of similar ...

£3.00 The January 2008 edition of the journal Race & Class leads with Joy Wang's analysis of Thabo Mbeki's AIDS denialism, features Jeremy Seabrook's examination of the psychic costs of ...

A collection of summaries of and links to Race & Class articles (1975-2025) on racism, class, criminal justice, related urban and ‘race’ policies, and key moments of resistance to state/institutional ...

Europe’s increased use of weaponry against racialised minorities, migrants and protesters, signifies creeping authoritarianism – IRR new study finds The new study, published on the fifth anniversary ...

These far-right riots and the ensuing racist and Islamophobic violence are unparalleled. Yet the government’s response is to focus on ‘violent disorder across the ideological spectrum’. This ...

‘County Lines’ refers to the government and police’s unique crime label for describing an ‘export mode’ of drug distribution based on ‘forced gang related activity’ and ‘criminal exploitation’ of ...

The October 2023 issue of Race & Class provides a cutting-edge analysis of the British ‘War on Woke’, as well as the role of ethnic minorities in the Conservative party. What does the ambiguous, catch ...

Fifty years ago, the Institute of Race Relations overturned ‘race relations’ orthodoxies and set parameters for a committed anti-racism. Fifty years on, the IRR, with radical scholar activists, ...

The American hard Right are coming to the UK – and Europe. But, unlike in Hungary, where the gathering of Europe’s extreme-right figures (including the prime ministers of Hungary and Georgia) was an ...