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The Home Office launches Operation Sillath, involving speedy return of those…

The Home Office launches Operation Sillath, involving speedy return of those… The Home Office launches Operation Sillath, involving speedy return of those… ...
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Race and Class, January 2026

£6.00 In this special edition of Race & Class, leading black and anti-racist activists, campaigners and scholars chart the new parameters of state racism in the UK today. £3.00 The April 2011 issue of ...
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Anti-terrorism statistics

These statistics have been collated from a variety of different sources, which have differing ways of categorising and describing ‘race’ and ethnicity. (For example, some sources differentiate between ...
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From GPS tagging to facial recognition watches: expanding the surveillance of migrants in the UK

Written by Lucie Audibert (Lawyer and Legal Officer, Privacy International) & Monish Bhatia (Lecturer in Criminology, Birkbeck, University of London) Through its use ...
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A threat to public safety: policing, racism and the Covid-19 pandemic

A new report from the IRR and Centre on the Dynamics of Ethnicity (CoDE) suggests that policing during the Covid-19 pandemic undermines public health measures whilst disproportionately targeting Black ...
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Recollections on the Asian Youth Movements that emerged in the 1970s

On the launch of the young people’s oral history project exhibition ‘Activating Newham Community & Activism 1980-1991’, Jasbir Singh writes about his experiences and the seminal work of the Asian ...
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Feminism, biological fundamentalism and the attack on trans rights

Across Europe, the far Right is mobilising around sexual difference and for the forced imposition of heterosexual norms by drawing on biological arguments to border the ‘other’. Whilst we are familiar ...
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Citizenship: from right to privilege

Citizenship-stripping powers introduced since 2002 have enshrined a ‘second-class citizenship’ in the UK, mainly affecting British Muslims, says a new report from the Institute of Race Relations.
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Martha Osamor: unsung hero of Britain’s black struggle

Martha Osamor, now 75-years-old is one of the many unsung heroes of Britain’s black community, yet she has spent almost all her life fighting to better the position of people in Tottenham and beyond – ...
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The Met Gangs Matrix – institutional racism in action

Lee Bridges, Professor Emeritus (School of Law, University of Warwick), examines the ethnic composition of the Metropolitan police’s gangs database. In October 2014, the Met police disclosed ...
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‘Mears must be sacked from asylum housing contract’ demands Sheffield’s housing chair

Continuing delays, disrepair and insanitary conditions have caused one local authority to decide it will tell the Home Office to end its contract with the Mears Group, and will take asylum housing ...
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How Black Working-Class Youth are Criminalised and Excluded in the English School System

While a minority of young, multiracial working-class Londoners caught up in serious youth violence are schooled in the Pupil Referral Units (PRUs) and Alternative Provision (AP) that forms part of the ...