Institute of Race Relations News Service

17/04/2026

IRR NEWS THIS WEEK ⤵️

📝 Colonial connections in policing: from Palestine solidarity to drugs enforcement

📆 Race and resistance calendar

🗣 Event: Drugs, Race and the Politics of Modern Slavery - sign up via our bio

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26/03/2026

🖋 IRR reports on racism and the Right

1️⃣ Mainstreaming hate: how the Right exploits the crisis to divide us: https://irr.org.uk/article/mainstreaming-hate-how-the-right-exploits-the-crisis-to-divide-us/

2️⃣ Enforcing Britishness: from the ‘numbers game’ to far-right vigilantism: https://irr.org.uk/article/enforcing-britishness-from-the-numbers-game-to-far-right-vigilantism/

3️⃣ In racism’s echo chamber: the government and criminal justice system’s response to the summer 2024: https://irr.org.uk/article/policy-and-prosecutorial-responses-to-the-summer-2024-riots-risk-fuelling-a-cycle-of-racist-violence/

You can also read them all via our website here: https://irr.org.uk/product-category/publications/briefing-papers-reports-uk/

16/03/2026

‼️ Read IRR's report 'Enforcing Britishness: from the numbers game to far-right vigilantes' ⤵️

🔗https://bit.ly/3NeOBhC

13/03/2026

🇵🇸 The decision to ban al-Quds day March for Palestine marks the first ban on a demonstration since far-Right EDL marches were banned in 2012.

Our research on paramilitary policing looks at the way restrictions and bans have been used to disrupt effective protest in support of BLM, Palestine and other causes.

🔗Read more here: https://irr.org.uk/article/paramilitary-policing-against-the-people-colonial-continuities-and-the-challenge-from-below/

05/03/2026

📊 Gorton and Denton by-election: the instrumentalisation of anti-extermism.

🖇 Full editorial here preview.mailerlite.com/r9g9m8g8q0

03/03/2026

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: https://bit.ly/4l3uLCt

18/02/2026

🗞️Our latest report in The Justice Gap highlights how the government, police and courts decontextualised the riots, severing them from issues of structural discrimination and systemic racism.

🔗https://thejusticegap.com/courts-downplayed-racism-of-2024-riots-treating-far-right-violence-as-mindless-thuggery-says-irr-study/

Read the full report here:https://irr.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/In-racisms-echo-chamber-Final.pdf

13/02/2026

Palestine Action ban ruled unlawful by High Court 🇵🇸🇵🇸

https://irr.org.uk/article/statement-of-irr-concerns-regarding-the-decision-to-proscribe-palestine-action-2/

20/01/2026

🚨Important warning from End Deportations Belfast ⤵

Anti-racist group in Northern Ireland concerned that racist violence was being used by paramilitaries for recruitment.

https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/northern-ireland/almost-50-children-referred-to-social-services-following-ni-race-riots/a1869976653.html

19/01/2026

🚨EXCLUSIVE 🚨Our new briefing shows that policy and prosecutorial responses to the summer 2024 riots delink the violence from racism - paving the way for anti-immigration and Islamophobic protests and far-right vigilantism to form an infinite loop.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/jan/18/response-2024-riots-failed-address-root-causes-racism-southport

Read the full report here: https://irr.org.uk/article/policy-and-prosecutorial-responses-to-the-summer-2024-riots-risk-fuelling-a-cycle-of-racist-violence/

Policy and prosecutorial responses to the summer 2024 riots delink the violence from racism, paving the way for anti-immigration and Islamophobic protests and far-right vigilantism to form an infinite loop. A unique study published today by the Institute of Race Relations (IRR) finds that policy and...