The October issue of Race & Class leads with an article by Tariq Dana and Muhannad Ayyash:

Beyond Genocide: Colonial Modernity and The Destruction of 'Infrastructures of Existence' in Gaza

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She says 'This is less a history book and more a vivid community memoir focused on ensuring that historical lessons can be applied to the here and now.'
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Come What May, We're Here to Stay
The Story of South Asian Resistance in Britain by Taj Ali.

Joint-editor of Race & Class, Jenny Bourne, reviews Ali's book.

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Within the piece, the authors also explore culture as liberation techniques, using James’ cricket and Jones’ carnival as examples.
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The totality problem: C.L.R. James, Claudia Jones and critical theory by Scott Timcke and Shelene Gomes.
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📖 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.
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They talk about her death leading to an effort to unify family struggles to form @UFFCampaign (United Friends and Family Campaign).
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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.
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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.
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📕Labour’s island of strangers: race, class and the politics of immigration in Starmer’s Britain by David Bates

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‘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 @TribunalPeoples tell us more in this video.
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Last April, the tribunal was held in London to hear from families whose loved ones had been killed by the police.
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📌 The latest issue of Race & Class is out now!

It leads with an incredibly important article by @TribunalPeoples

‘Obstinate memory: the People’s Tribunal on Police Killings’ by Ken Fero, Jodie Bradshaw and Samantha Patterson.

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📌 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/10.1177/03…
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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’.
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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 💚
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📚 New articles for the latest issue of Race & Class
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📚 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 ➡️irr.org.uk/about/vacancie…
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NEW ARTICLE❗

The mobilisation of refugee labour for carbon credits as maladaptive practice by Nicholas Beuret, Matilda Fitzmaurice and David Harvie.

🗣 Gholam Khiabany
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The latest issue of Race & Class is now out! Order a physical copy or read online here ⤵️

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🎙️Learn more about our journal Race & Class in this interview with the joint-editors marking Black History Month in the US ⤵️
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🚨As Trump continues to deploy ICE agents, National Guard troops and active-duty military personnel, Zachary Levenson and Marcel Paret look at the current moment in the US by turning to South Africa’s anti-apartheid struggle for lessons in challenging racial authoritarianism.
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The blatantly illegal US invasion of Venezuela, only chimes with what we have seen in the past - case in point- Panama

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Solidarity is always ongoing 🇵🇸
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📚The April issue of R&C is out now

Featuring a lead article by Iida Käyhkö on the targeting of the Kurdish community, which focuses on a recent counter-terror raid on the Kurdish Community Centre in Haringey, London

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Read the full article for free online or order a copy of the latest issue from our website: irr.org.uk/product/race-c…
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They state:
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🚨NEW ARTICLE 📰

🇵🇸Interrupting circulations: the politics of infrastructure in contemporary mobilisations for Palestine by Sigrid Corry (@sigrid_corry) & Charlotte Rose in the latest issue for Race & Class.

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Understanding the full context of racialised neoliberal capitalism is important in the building of movements against state-led austerity, racism, border violence and human disposability:

✍️ @WanjiKelbert & @Rupinder0_
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Awaab Ishak & the devaluation of migrant, working-class life by Alexandra Wanjiku Kelbert & Rupinder Parhar

The authors analyse the mechanics behind Awaab's death which an inquest found was due to respiratory condition caused by prolonged mould exposure.
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It has also led, as BRISMES warns, to attacks on anticolonial scholarship and, according to Netpol, public order policing methods that involve treating protests against the actions of the state of Israel almost entirely as a potential ‘hate crime’. brismes.ac.uk/news/brismes-s…
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As the ICJ orders Israel to immediately halt its military offensive in Rafah, & as police break up student protests in Amsterdam, Berlin, Oxford & beyond, Race & Class foregrounds the European-wide assault on freedom of expression in relation to Palestine
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@IRR_News director, Liz Fekete on Compound Injustice 🗣️
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In ‘Life next to a landfill: urban marginality, environmental injustice & the Roma’, Daniel Škobla & Richard Filčák analyse how a segregated Roma settlement in Slovakia developed as a result of intentional discriminatory policies of the local ruling class. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.117…
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Building on court cases involving minority women in the US, @FalguniSheth explores the judicial act of dismissal in discrimination cases, thus exposing a long history of the epistemic silencing of women of colour in the courts.

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@NishaWaller4 and @NSakande combine a legal analysis of the jury system with archival research into UK’s anti-racist history to shed light on how the decision to introduce majority verdicts in 1967 was rooted in racial injustice. @appeal

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In ‘Racist inferences and flawed data: drill rap lyrics as criminal evidence in group prosecutions’, @EMaryQ examines state interpretations of drill lyrics in the preparation of serious crime cases, focusing on a 2020 joint enterprise murder case in London journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10.11…
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📚April issue of R&C out now!

Systemic injustice and the criminal legal system 🏛️

The issue explores how racism seeps into every aspect of criminal justice with articles by
@NishaWaller4
@NSakande
@EMaryQ
@FalguniSheth

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The article adds to the growing number of voices rejecting injustice in the legal system, including @artnotevidence which is fighting the criminalisation of rap, as well as groups demanding the dismantling of joint enterprise @JENGbA @KidsOfColourHQ @legendofeleda
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Drill rap lyrics are used regularly by police and prosecutors as evidence against young Black working-class defendants in UK criminal cases.

How are lyrics, of little or no relevance, used to incriminate, as well as invoke stereotypes and mislead the court?
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📢 New R&C article

Racist Inferences and Flawed Data: Drill Rap Lyrics as Criminal Evidence in Group Prosecutions by @EMaryQ

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Co-author @NishaWaller4 highlights the significance of the findings:

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🇵🇸In response, health workers across the world continue to mobilise in solidarity with Palestine.

📖Read the full article here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

@healthW4pal @HA4Palestine
📷 @d7777rt & poster by Micah Bazant
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In the present moment in the siege on Gaza, more than 238 attacks have destroyed over 61 healthcare facilities, oxygen stations, water tanks, solar panels & generators, ambulances have been targeted, & 311 health workers killed, including highly experienced surgeons & specialists
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Obermaier notes that ‘surprising little has changed over the decades’ with many of the same tactics used by Israel’s settler-colonial ‘logic of elimination’ also used during the First Intifada:
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The response to the protests was a deliberate policy of maiming protesters & disabling medical facilities. 212 were killed in the peaceful protests, 35,450 Palestinians injured, including journalists, medics, many children & disabled people, none posing a threat

Obermaier ✍️
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In a letter to the United Nations Security Council on 4 December 2023, the International President of @MSF wrote:

@CIJ_ICJ
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🇵🇸In Disabling Palestine: the case of Gaza’s ‘Great March of Return’, Lena Obermaier shows how the ‘disabling of Palestinians & the debilitation of the health & rehabilitative infrastructures is part of Israel’s settler-colonial "logic of elimination"'
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Sophie Chauhan (@dykonoclasm) reviews author and professor Zahi Zalloua's book 'Solidarity and the Palestinian Cause', which analyses the Palestinian identity through the prism of Indigeneity and Blackness.
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In this commentary, Liz Fekete draws on two previous articles from the last R&C (@huwcdavies & @wsi2016,
@RimaSaini3105, @DrMikeBankole &
@NeemaBegum) to comment on the shift of far Right ideologies from marginalised to mainstream and what lessons can activists learn from it.
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Cameron Williams, Madison Miller and Ramiro Jimenez give us an ethnographic account of how the Lathrop Preservation Campaign organised to save Lathrop Homes from demolition using race-conscious language and strategies.
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Using the case of Alevi communities in Turkey, which have been historically stigmatised and persecuted through collective punishment and state violence, Deniz Yonucu (@denizyonucu ) explores how sectarianism can operate as a form of racism.
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Lena Obermaier examines the intentional disabling of Palestinians and the debilitation of Palestinian health and rehabilitative infrastructures during the Great March of Return in Gaza between March 2018 and December 2019.
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Insa Koch, Patrick Williams (@PatrickWillia17) & Lauren Wroe (@Laurie_Eli) highlight how the multi-agency approach to the county lines problem builds on racialised tropes about black boys and young men as a 'criminal problem'.
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The newest edition of R&C contains articles on ‘county lines’ and the stigmatisation & criminalisation of young black men, Israel’s policies of disablement & debilitation of Palestine, sectarianism as racism in stigmatised communities of Turkey & more.

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📚RACE & CLASS IS OUT NOW!

The Jan 24 issue includes articles on ‘county lines’ & the targeting & stigmatisation of young black men, an analysis of policies of deliberate disablement & debilitation in Palestine, sectarianism as racism in Turkey & more

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Niamh Eastwood, Executive Director of @Release_drugs, a national centre of expertise on drugs and drugs law who advocate for evidence-based drug policies that are founded on principles of public health rather than a criminal justice approach, added:
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📢Angélique Vassell, founder of @walkwithmeuk, a London-based grassroots organisation and community interest company working with many families of colour whose children have been exploited, said:
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Here are comments from one of the report's authors, Lauren Wroe (@Laurie_Eli) and a quote from IRR director Liz Fekete 🗣️⬇️
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'County lines’: racism, safeguarding & statecraft in Britain by Insa Koch, Patrick Williams (@PatrickWillia17) & Lauren Wroe (@Laurie_Eli)

✍️A new piece of research that finds the 'County Lines' safeguarding to target and stigmatise black youth 🧵⬇️
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Accompanying this article in the October issue is an analysis of the 2022 Conservative leadership campaign, of ethnic minority candidates who were also considered the most right-wing of the senior leadership. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…
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Now in print in the October 2023 issue of Race & Class, ‘An anatomy of the British War on Woke’ by sociologists Huw C. Davies (@huwcdavies) & Sheena E. MacRae (@wsi2016), could not be more timely.
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Here is Černušáková's Race & Class article on 'Stigma and segregation: containing the Roma of Údol, Czech Republic' 📖👇journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…
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🎞️IRR Research Associate and Race & Class contributor Barbora Černušáková (@BCernusa) alongside artist @J_Trickfilm has produced this incisive animation exploring in simple terms, the way racialised debt operates against Roma in Czech Republic: vimeo.com/842892762/c589…
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As the UN special rapporteur denounces Canada's temporary foreign worker program as a "breeding ground for contemporary forms of slavery"

Read Elise Hjalmarson's (@elihjal) R&C piece on the experiences of Jamaican farmworkers on Okanagan orchards
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UN special rapporteur denounces Canada's temporary foreign worker program as "breeding ground for contemporary forms of slavery."

This is not about few bad employers, migrant worker programs are *structured* to create mass labour and social exploitation

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'The question of internationalism is located in the question of what we do about it..' 🗣️ Akram Salhab (@akramquds)

📖Read Salhab's piece based on a modified speech from last year's IRR 50 conference 'New Circuits of Anti-Racism': journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…
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From last year's IRR50 conference, @priya_guns reminds of a quote by Sivanandan, 'We have cultures of resistance to create, communities of resistance to build & a world to win'🔥

Read Guns' contribution to the latest R&C, & order an issue on our website: journals.sagepub.com/share/W3YN5KEY…
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The special issue is edited by @IRR_News Chair @JohnCNarayan

Get a copy from the IRR website ⬇️
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We had a great time the other week at the launch of @ArunKundnani's new book, 'What is Antiracism and Why it means Anti-capitalism'

It was also the same week our special #IRR50 issue, 'New Circuits of Anti-racism' came out - great to see some of our amazing contributors!
What is Antiracism?

We were delighted to co-host the launch of @ArunKundnani's new book with @_ISRF the other week.

If you missed it, watch the launch event with Ruth Wilson Gilmore on our YouTube channel ⬇️
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🔥“We are not here to reminisce. We are here to recommit.” 🗣️Colin Prescod, former chair of the IRR

Read Jenny Bourne & Colin Prescod's contribution to the latest issue of Race & Class where they provide a roadmap for revolutionary transformation 📖journals.sagepub.com/share/6MFXWHJZ…
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'Britain shouldn't be understood as a nation state... actually, from it's inception it has always been an imperial state'

Excellent lecture from @adamec87 tonight on Abolishing Institutional Racism @SLG_artupdates
Adam Elliott-Cooper (@adamec87) shows the interconnections between UK abolitionism in the present day with Black Power politics & anti-colonialism in the 20th century, calling into question the failings of liberal anti-racism.

🔓 Free Access here👇
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Elliott-Cooper outlines how abolitionism in 21c Britain draws on the radical politics of Black Power & anti-colonialism in the 20th C & shows how this provides the antidote to the failures of liberal anti-racism, looking to more community-based alternatives to police & prisons.
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Looking at further failings of the report, Elliott-Cooper references CARF's ‘After Macpherson: the racism debate’ where they stated police stop & search should have been limited when it was instead expanded by the government with the addition of recording irr.org.uk/app/uploads/20…
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Elliott-Cooper looks at the flaws of the report's definition of institutional racism in its thin critique of the state & Bourne's argument that it leaves the govt 'facing both ways', pushing policies that deepen racism, & leading initiatives that claim to combat racial inequality
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Elliot-Cooper shows how abolitionists in the present day draw on radical Black Power politics from the US & the UK which made links between racism, capitalism, colonialism and resistance:📷
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Adam Elliott-Cooper (@adamec87) shows the interconnections between UK abolitionism in the present day with Black Power politics & anti-colonialism in the 20th century, calling into question the failings of liberal anti-racism.

🔓 Free Access here👇
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Tomorrow @SLG_artupdates, @adamec87 will be discussing some of the themes in his new Race & Class article, Abolishing Institutional Racism
🗣️ Tomorrow, Wed 19 July

@adamec87 will be speaking at @SLG_artupdates on Abolishing Institutional Racism: Policing, Activism and Radical Alternatives - echoing the title of his important new piece in @Race_Class

🕖 7PM
Hosted by @sch_sos

Book now ⬇️ southlondongallery.org/events/abolish…
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A very exciting arrival today - physical copies of our special issue, New Circuits of Anti Racism! 💥

Order your copy while stocks last ⬇️
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We are excited to publish this new piece by IRR Chair, @JohnCNarayan ‘New Times or new circuits: recovering Sivanandan’s political economy’.

Developed from a presentation at IRR 50, this article briefly returns to the Hall & Sivanandan debate 👇📺
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New conditions may suggest the need of ‘new circuits’, but these can build on lessons of the past.

Framing this issue are reflections from Race & Class Joint Editor Jenny Bourne & former IRR chair & film-maker Colin Prescod: journals.sagepub.com/share/HS7ESEGV…
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And Tamil fiction writer Priya Guns (@priya_guns) on how Sivanandan’s literary work has shaped her pursuit to make radical art in a neoliberal globalist world. journals.sagepub.com/share/VRUNATMB…
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Anthropologist Miriyam Aouragh returns to Sivanandan’s writing and her own notion of ‘radical kinship’ in order to explore how to organise together and build on commonalities.
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THE INFLUENCE OF A. SIVANANDAN

Founder of this journal & key mover in the reorientation of ‘race thinking’ in the UK, Sivanandan is a central thread woven throughout the special issue, with contributors using his work to understand the present moment.
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Also on internationalism Jason C Mueller asks, 'Does the US owe reparations to Somalia?' His piece offers an empirical & theoretical examination of what the US has done in Somalia, considering the political, economic & ideological elements of these acts. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…
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Some answers are provided by @JohnCNarayan, who recalls Sivanandan’s political economy which anchors anti-racism to an anti-imperial, international political economy, which, he argues, must be at the heart of how anti-racism addresses the current crisis. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…
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Avery Gordon takes stock of shifts in the global order that have produced challenging conditions of debt, austerity, capitalist crisis & authoritarianisms, & asks how to build radical internationalism today. journals.sagepub.com/share/N7JYPRXT…
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INTERNATIONALISM & IMPERIALISM
Communities of resistance, as well as being rooted locally, must also build solidarity on a transnational level. Akram Salhab (@akramquds) explores the radical possibilities of internationalism, looking at London historically journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…
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Their wide-ranging contributions cover issues including the diffusion of police powers, the cause of scholar-activism & the role of radical histories in building communities of resistance.

Here they answer the question of what abolitionist looks like in the UK 📺
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RESISTANCE & FIGHTBACK

The myriad ways in which communities are fighting back is the topic of an edited roundtable discussion with five UK-based anti-racist activist authors, @Shanice_OM, Azfar Shafi, @ilyas_nagdee, Remi Joseph-Salisbury & Laura Connelly.
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Adam Elliott-Cooper shows the links between UK abolitionism now with Black Power politics & anti-colonialism in the c20th, questioning the failings of liberal anti-racism & the reluctance of authorities to accept the existence of institutional racism. journals.sagepub.com/share/S3B5CTMB…
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ABOLITION & INSTITUTIONAL RACISM
We are thrilled to present a keynote conversation from Barbara Ransby & Dereka Purnell, who outline the entangled workings of capitalism, racism & patriarchy, & how trans & queer activists are shaping visions for liberation journals.sagepub.com/share/JXS5DQMS…
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Fifty years ago, the IRR overturned ‘race relations’ orthodoxies and set parameters for a committed anti-racism.

50 years on, the IRR, with radical scholar activists, examined ‘New Circuits of Anti-Racism’ at a conference gathering. irr.org.uk/article/irr50/
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🆕RACE & CLASS OUT NOW

🔥'New Circuits of Anti- Racism'

Guest-edited by the IRR’s new Chair @JohnCNarayan, this issue brings together debates on abolition, reparations, internationalism & racial capitalism taken from the IRR50 conference & beyond. irr.org.uk/article/abolit…
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