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 – ...

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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 ...

Research from the IRR on charging and sentencing after the far-right-orchestrated racial violence in England in summer 2024,[i] finds that attacks could be traced back to scare statements about ...

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 ...

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 ...

Criminologists Sarah Lamble and Megan McElhome argue that getting to grips with contemporary police racism demands a more expansive approach.

Policing workers As more and more people – nurses, transport workers and other key public sector workers whose jobs can’t be automated (yet) – rediscover the power of collective responses to ...

As the economy unravels, we are seeing an increasingly aggressive government squaring up to an expanding list of enemies.