Stand Up to Racism fringe meeting at Labour Party conference: "Labour must challenge racism"

SUTR labour conference fringe meeting 22nd sept

A well-attended Stand Up to Racism fringe meeting took place at the Labour Party Conference on Sunday 22nd October.

Conference delegates heard from keynote speakers Dawn Butler MP, Bell Ribeiro-Addy MP, Richard Burgon MP, the FBU’s Matt Wrack, NEU’s Daniel Kebede, Zara Mohammed (Muslim Council of Britain general secretary), Edie Friedman (Jewish race equality and refugee rights campaigner), Ricardo la Torre (FBU) and Mish Rahman (Labour NEC personal capacity).

The meeting was chaired by SUTR co-convenor Sabby Dhalu.

We have to ask Labour, it's PLP, trade unions & the Labour movement

– What is the moral purpose of our nation?

It's certainly not to starve children, freeze pensioners or exchange immigration notes with the grandchildren of Mussolini.

Me at @AntiRacismDay fringe today pic.twitter.com/Ab0LjTHGbo
— Mish Rahman (@mish_rahman) September 22, 2024

WATCH: @DanielKebedeNEU speaks at the @AntiRacismDay rally at Labour Conference.

We demand an end to anti-refugee rhetoric and a period of renewal that will deliver for the country greater standards of living and better education for all. pic.twitter.com/jPJ9DX8Goh
— National Education Union (@NEUnion) September 22, 2024

"Working people have always been the answer to combating far right ideologies and we will continue to be the answer." – Ricardo la Torre, @fbunational at the @antiracismday #Lab24 fringe pic.twitter.com/nE11QI5id4
— Stand Up To Racism (@AntiRacismDay) September 22, 2024

"We should have called it Islamophobia from the start." – Dawn Butler at the @antiracismday #Lab24 fringe on challenging the far-right following the riots. pic.twitter.com/DhKZdEe8LF
— Stand Up To Racism (@AntiRacismDay) September 22, 2024