Book now for 15 October international conference with four key social forum style sessions: How can we stop the racist offensive?


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Our international conference on Saturday 15 October is now under two weeks away, with hundreds already booked up. It comes at a very important moment.

As a government in crisis with a fresh prime minister seeks to ride out resistance to the cost of living crisis attacks and unions are coordinating strikes, it is clear that Truss and the newly appointed Home secretary Braverman will push ahead with intensifying the racist hostile environment.

In recent weeks we have had mass protest again across Britain, and with 600 outside the court,  on the opening day of the hearing against the heinous Rwanda offshore detention policy. We have seen mass protests erupting over the police killing of Chris Kaba, an unarmed 24 year old black man in south London. In the wake of the Black Lives Matter movement, there is clearly the urgent need, and capacity, for mass resistance to institutional racism rife in Britain.

Whether institutional racism and police violence or racist pushbacks and Borders policies – these issues are both international, and also have a direct relationship to the action being organised by unions against impact the cost of living crisis.

The conference will not only draw together activists and campaigners and the experience of the anti racist and anti fascist movements across the world, but it will also discuss how we can ensure that we don’t let them divide us, that our movement organises to challenge the politics of divide and rule.

The conference will run (10am registration) 11am to 5pm, with four consecutive running social forum style sessions…

Anti racists from across Britain and the world will converge in central London (and the conference will run as a hybrid with online access to participate) to discuss action, strategy and ideas for building the growing movement against racism. Confirmed speakers so far include:

  • Eddie Dempsey RMT assistant general secretary
  • Jane Loftus CWU Vice president
  • Bell Ribeiro-Addy MP
  • Dawn Butler MP
  • Kevin Courtney NEU general secretary
  • Michael Holding international cricketer and author
  • Daniele Obono member of French National Assembly
  • Shami Chakrabarti human rights activist
  • Wilf Sullivan TUC Race Equality Officer
  • Kudsia Batool TUC Head of Equalities
  • Sarah Woolley BFAWU general secretary
  • Mya-Rose ‘Birdgirl’ Craig ornithologist and climate activist
  • Elise Bryant author
  • Francesco Galleri Italian antifascist, 6000 Sardines
  • Cas Mudde political scientist and author of ‘The Far Right Today’
  • Trevor Ngwane South African climate and anti apartheid activist
  • Lee Jasper political activist
  • Jermain Jackman winner of The Voice 2014
  • Clare Moseley Care4Calais CEO
  • Shavanah Taj Wales TUC general secretary
  • Anzoumane Sissoko French political activist
  • Patrick Vernon Windrush campaigner
  • Marcia Rigg sister of Sean Rigg
  • David Rosenberg Jewish Socialist Group
  • Chantelle Lunt Merseyside Black Lives Matter
  • Juliana Ojinnaka UCU Black Members Committee Chair
  • Ryan Colaco campaigner against police brutality
  • Denis Goddard French antiracist activist
  • Cathy Pound Searchlight
  • Talha Ahmad Muslim Council of Britain
  • Mohammed Kozbar chair of Finsbury Park Mosque
  • Paula Peters Disabled People Against Cuts
  • Mohammad Asif chair of Afghan Human Rights Foundation
  • Roger McKenzie Morning Star
  • Fiona Sim justice for Sim family
  • Weyman Bennett Stand Up To Racism co convenor
  • Sabby Dhalu Stand Up To Racism co convenor

Book your place todaycome together with anti racist activists from across the world and play your part in this crucial, international forum to shape and grow the mass movement against racism. 

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