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🚨#IRR50 year wrap up🎁
And what a year it's been! We've produced articles on policing in schools, highlighted the treatment of asylum seekers, released reports on citizenship-stripping and police racism, PLUS all our #IRR50 activities
Here's a rundown of our major highlights🧵
And what a year it's been! We've produced articles on policing in schools, highlighted the treatment of asylum seekers, released reports on citizenship-stripping and police racism, PLUS all our #IRR50 activities
Here's a rundown of our major highlights🧵
In 2022, we celebrated 50 years since the IRR underwent its radical transformation: from an establishment body funded by large multinational corporations into an explicitly anti-racist thinktank oriented towards those making struggle against state racism. irr.org.uk/article/irr50/
We are living in difficult times. At the start of the year, we published a 5-part series by IRR Vice-Chair @FrancesWebber5 that mapped out the multiple threats and attacks on human rights.
Read through #ImpunityEntrenched via this thread of threads👇
Read through #ImpunityEntrenched via this thread of threads👇
On this day in 1972, one of the most significant steps in British race relations – the transformation of the Institute of Race Relations led by its staff and supporters – took place. #IRR50🧵
At an Extraordinary General Meeting held at St. James Church Hall, the staff defeated the IRR Council of Management in a crucial vote. The majority of the Council resigned en masse. #IRR50
In this free access🔓 @Race_Class editorial, Jenny Bourne recounts this momentous transformation of the IRR, from a policy-oriented establishment institution to an anti-racist ‘thinktank’, under the leadership of A. Sivanandan. #IRR50
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