Model motion to support Trade Union conference and #M17 demo

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Stand Up To Racism model motion – (download here SUTR-TU-model-motion-2017)

This branch / committee / organisation notes

  • May’s government is weak but nasty. It depends on the DUP to survive.
  • We are seeing a growth in the racist and sometimes fascist right from Trump’s election in the US to the electoral successes for the Front National in France, the AfD (Alternative for Germany) and the Freedom Party in Austria.
  • There has been a worrying rise in hate crimes, racist, Islamophobic and anti-Semitic attacks.
  • The Tories use of EU citizen’s rights as a bargaining chip in the Brexit negotiations.
  • The deaths of Rashan Charles, Edson DaCosta and Darren Cumberbatch and the Grenfell disaster outline the ongoing reality of institutional racism. BAME people in Britain face discrimination in the justice system, employment, education and housing.
  • Thousands of refugees still face death fleeing war and poverty, while the Tories continue to scapegoat refugees and migrants. They are blamed for overstretched public services instead of the real culprit – austerity.
  • The growth in support for Jeremy Corbyn and his stand against racism.
  • This year’s Stand Up To Racism conference saw 1,300 people attend and heard from Shadow Home Secretary Diane Abbott, Labour MPs’ Kate Osamor and Catherine West, NEU general secretary Kevin Courtney and others debate the way forward.

This branch/  committee / organisation believes

  • We need to build a mass anti-racist movement. The Stand Up To Racism national demonstrations in London, Glasgow and Cardiff, linked to many more protests across Europe on Saturday 17 March, can play an important part in strengthening that movement.
  • Any visit by Trump to Britain must be met with mass protests which we should encourage all members to support.

 

This branch/  committee / organisation resolves

  • To support the Stand Up To Racism protests in London/Glasgow/Cardiff on Saturday 17 March, to send a banner and delegation and to make a donation of £……….. towards the cost of transport to the protest.
  • To support the Stand Up To Racism Trade Union conference on Saturday 10 February. To pay for a delegation of… and to make a donation of £…. to the costs of the event and to send the branch banner.
  • To affiliate to Stand Up To Racism, publicise its initiatives to our members and send a representative to sit on our local committee.

 

 

 

 

 

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