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

22nd July – 5th August 2025 We tend to think of all the great social movements in history as driven by progressive values – anti-racist and for civil rights, for instance. But what do we do when a ...

Race & Class is the IRR’s quarterly journal on racism, empire and globalisation. For more than three decades, it has established a reputation for the breadth of its analysis, its global outlook and ...

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 ...

A. Sivanandan was one of the most important and influential black thinkers in the UK, changing many of the orthodoxies on ‘race’, heading the Institute of Race Relations for almost forty years, ...

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 ...

What does the EHRC’s methodology in its report into antisemitism in the Labour Party warn us about the way equalities are moving?

Jessica Perera interviews academic Joy White about her 2020 ethnographic book Terraformed: Young Black Lives in the Inner City.

Below we reproduce an excerpt from the introduction to the January issue of Race & Class, a special issue on ‘Reparative histories’. The ‘balcony scene’ during which the out-of-time drugs baron, Avon ...

On this day in 1979, Awaz (UK Asian women’s collective) + OWAAD (Organisation of Women of African+Asian descent) organised a powerful picket at Heathrow, protesting the horrific virginity tests, which ...

8 – 22nd July 2025 One year after the orchestrated far-right racist riots of summer 2024 that followed the horrific murders of Bebe King (6), Elsie Dot Stancombe (7) and Alice Dasilva Aguiar (9), at a ...

19-year-old campaigner Flores Sukula, of Bolton, went to the Home Office in London this week to hand in a petition of 2,500 signatures in support of her family’s anti-deportation campaign. Five of the ...