📖 Back in 1995, CARF (Campaign against Racism and Fascism) also part of IRR, wrote on Joy’s trial and the continual denial of Justice. You can access this piece via the link in our bio.

They talk about her death leading to an effort to unify family struggles to form UFFC (United Friends and Family Campaign).

33 years ago, Joy Gardner was killed by the police in her home. ✊🏾 In this piece for Race & Class, The People’s Tribunal on Police Killings opens with a quote from Joy’s mother, Myrna Gardner.

This, alongside its espousal of increasingly extreme rhetoric on immigration, can be understood as a feature of ‘labourism’, a political formation that plays a continuing role in the reproduction of racial capitalism in Britain.

📕Labour’s island of strangers: race, class and the politics of immigration in Starmer’s Britain by David Bates doi.org/10.1177/0306...

Obstinate memory: the People’s Tribunal on Police Killings’ by Ken Fero, Jodie Bradshaw and Samantha Patterson. 📕 Lead article for July Race & Class 🗣️ Listen to Samantha Patterson, one of the authors, and co-founder of The People's Tribunal tell us more in this video ⤵️

Last April, the tribunal was held in London to hear from families whose loved ones had been killed by the police.

📌 The latest issue of Race & Class is out now! It leads with an incredibly important article by @tribunalpeople.bsky.social ‘Obstinate memory: the People’s Tribunal on Police Killings’ by Ken Fero, Jodie Bradshaw and Samantha Patterson. journals.sagepub.com/share/JGVQ8R...

We're delighted that the majority saw sense and struck down Trump's attempt to remove birthright citizenship. www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...

📌 New Race & Class article published this week! Labour's island of stangers: race, class, and the politics of immigration in Starmer's Britain by David Bates 🔓Open access article: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

🖇Via our linktree you can read/download: linktr.ee/instituterac... ➡ ‘Race & Class article, 'Seeing off Empire: the life of Pearl Prescod'. ➡ An educational pamphlet on Pearl.

It was one of a generation of artists, performers, singers and intellectuals whose contribution to the creation of a Black and anti-colonial strand in British culture in the 1950s and ’60s has been neglected.

Recounting and reframing histories of resistance is important work, especially when national narratives tend to depoliticise or homogenise such stories. The life of Pearl Prescod: linktr.ee/instituterac...

Read the full timeline here: irr.org.uk/article/doss...

Dossier of a pogrom in Northern Ireland ( 9 – 16 June 2026) ⤵️ irr.org.uk/article/doss...

Thank you to Migrants Rights Network (@migrantsrights.bsky.social) for bringing together such an important space at the Migrant Justice and the Far Right Summit over the weekend. It was powerful to come together in order to sharpen our analysis and build community power in such urgent times ✊🏽

In a piece for Race & Class authors, Alexandra Wanjiku Kelbert and Rupinder Parhar wrote an article on ‘Awaab Ishak and the devaluation of migrant, working-class life’. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

9 years on from the Grenfell Tower fire and communities are still fighting for justice – we remember the 72 people who were killed in this preventable tragedy 💚

Belfast burns again - by Stiofan O Nuallain morningstaronline.co.uk/article/belf...

'A monitoring group repeatedly warned the Police Service of Northern Ireland over the past eight months that anti-immigration activists were circulating the addresses of properties that were targeted in this week’s Belfast riots.’ theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

📚 New articles for the latest issue of Race & Class irr.org.uk/product/race...

Our latest calendar highlights some of the most recent attacks on resistance for Palestine across the UK & Europe: irr.org.uk/article/cale...

⤵Check out our latest newsletter this week: ✊🏾 Defending universal anti-racist principles – the defining struggle of our times. Read in full here: preview.mailerlite.com/i9m5z8w4d1

📚 Race & Class is hiring for an Editorial Assistant! Salary: £15 per hour, 12 hours per week This role is part time for 6 months, and offers a hybrid option to work from our office or remotely. Apply here ➡️https://irr.org.uk/about/vacancies/job-advert-editorial-assistant-on-race-class/

🚨 We're hiring! Looking for a Finance and Organisational support officer to join our wonderful team. 📍London office - 2 days in + 1 remote day. 💰£38,825 - £40,744 (pro-rata 3 days per week) ⏰ Apply by midnight, 7 June More info and apply here: irr.org.uk/about/vacanc...

Full house at last night LSE launch of our Race & Class colleague Insa Koch’s book on Drugs, Race and the Politics of Modern Slavery Law. Great for IRR to spend time with Insa, Kojo Kyerewaa, Glodi Wabelua, Coretta Phillips and Angelique Vassell.