Fighting for anti racist workplaces
Stand Up to Racism and TUC annual trade union conference: fighting for anti racist workplaces and countering the rise of the far right
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2025 presents a serious challenge for the trade union movement. The rise of far right and racist narratives threaten to divide working class people and distract from the real attacks on our living standards.
Our unions – the largest collective working class organisations with a membership of six million in Britain – must work to turn the tide. Unions are at the heart of a mass, united anti racist and anti fascist movement in Britain. We need to take anti racism into the heart of our workplaces and communities in order to counter racist myths.
This year’s annual Stand Up To Racism & TUC backed trade union conference on Saturday 1 March, Fighting For Anti Racist Workplaces and Countering the Rise of the Far Right, is to come together across unions, sectors and workplaces and discuss building anti racism and anti fascism rooted in the organised working class.
Reform UK poses a horrifying threat, overtaking the Tories, and setting the agenda in British politics around anti refugee and anti migrant racism, Islamophobia and is giving confidence to the far right and fascists. Despite this, the far right is divided, and the splits in Reform UK around support for fascist Tommy Robinson reinforce that we have the potential to stop them if we organise.
Elon Musk is now one of the most influential figures of the far right. His support for fascist Robinson, and Reform UK’s reinforcement of this racism provides a toxic cocktail that can, if left unchallenged, see the forces of the far right and fascist forces grow.
Our unions have played a leading role in the mobilising against attempts to grow a fascist led street movement in Britain. We marched in July, August and October in 2024 and on 1 February this year opposing the far right. We need to build on and deepen this from the base of every workplace and every community.
Internationally, the far right is growing, although it also faces opposition from
anti-racists. Trump has given another boost to the global far right. Stand Up To Racism is calling on unions to mobilise regionally and locally for Stand Up To Racism events on 22 March as part of a global day of action by World Against Racism & Fascism
Meanwhile, institutional racism at the level of the workplace and across wider society must continue to be challenged.
All these issues – and what collective action we can take – will be explored in a series of plenaries and workshops at the 1 March conference. Register now – sign up work and union colleagues.
Sessions include:
- What our unions can do to take on the threat of Reform UK
- Trade Union Network to Stop the Far Right: developing organising online and in the workplace
- Return to 1930s: changing face of fascism and our unions role in fighting it
- Developing action to implement the TUC Anti Racism Taskforce
- Refugees welcome: busting scapegoating myths and demanding safe routes
- Asian Fightback in Britain
- The international fight against the far right and fascism – challenging racism, Islamophobia, antisemitism
