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This branch/ region/ executive notes:
- On Saturday 27 July, fascist “Tommy Robinson” is calling on his far right, racist and Nazi thug supporters to “take over” central London. Robinson was a member of the Nazi British National Party and founded the English Defence League.
- On 1 June, Robinson put over 5,000 on the streets. The mobilisation was extremely Islamophobic and racist. Lawrence Fox echoed the Nazi National Front slogan “I want my country back” from the stage of the event. Robinson’s supporters chanted “who the f*** is Allah” and other hateful slogans.
- Robinson has called for even bigger numbers to take to the streets on 27 July.
- Internationally fascists and the far right have made frightening gains in the European elections, taking some 30 percent in France, Italy and Austria.
This branch/ region/ executive believes:
- Fascists and the far right in Britain have been fuelled by the virulent anti refugee and Islamophobic racism pushed by Sunak’s government.
- The threat posed is heightened by a toxic climate of racism in the wake of the breakthrough of Nigel Farage and his racist Reform UK party, now boasting five MPs. Fascist Robinson endorsed Farage, and hard right Tory Suella Braverman, and called on his supporters to vote Reform UK. The general election was immediately preceded by Sunak’s horrific racist shock detention raids after passing the Rwanda plan.
- Sunak’s talk of “extremists” tearing Britain apart, “Islamist” threat and “mob rule” is a racist attempt to slur Muslims and all those actively asserting their right to protest against war and for a ceasefire. Tory MPs like Braverman, Truss (no longer an MP!) and Sunak have emboldened Islamophobes like fascist Tommy Robinson. Antisemitic hate crimes are also increasing.
- The Tories stoked far right fears, Islamophobia, racism and division. Keir Starmer’s intervention in the election campaign echoed the racist ‘stop the boats’ rhetoric, and refused to endorse even a safe passage policy for safe and legal routes to claim asylum (an internationally recognised human right).
- We must unite against racism, Islamophobia and antisemitism. We must vehemently defend the right to protest and want to see those hundreds of thousands who have been demonstrating in recent months over Palestine on the streets on 27 July to unite against the fascist threat.
- Anti racists and anti fascists dominated the steets in the final week of the French election campaign, and we should celebrate the failure of fascist Marine Le Pen and the RN to win. But we must continue to sound the alaem, as the fascist RN went from 89 to 143 seats and are clearly continuing to rise. Trump returning to the White House in November is a real prospect.
- While Robinson launched his ‘new era’ rebounding around a film on 1 June all about supposed “two tier” policing (the claim that the police are dealing with far right and fascist demonstrators more heavily handed than left wing protest), the reality is he is pursuing the same agenda he has for years—spreading racism, islamophobia and division and building the forces of fascism in Britain.
- We must build the biggest protest to unite against him as possible. This means unions, faith groups, campaigns and organisations, politicians and cultural figures—all opposed fascism—coming together on the day.
This branch/ region/ executive resolves:
- To support the protest called by Stand Up To Racism and backed by many unions, organisations and campaigns on 27 July to unite against fascist Tommy Robinson, and to send the banner with a delegation, and cover the costs of transport
- To support the rescheduled #StopRwanda coalition demonstration when it’s date is announced after the general election result and campaign for its demands
- To support and build the #Unions4Unity bloc to ensure there is a strong trade union presence at the heart of the united demonstration against Robinson’s hatred and attempts to divide us. To circulate details to members encouraging them to join the march on Saturday 27 July, and circulate local transport details and materials (see standuptoracism.org.uk for details of coaches, leaflets)
- To back the 16 November Stand Up To Racism International conference, Stop the rise of fascism and the far right, and to fund and send a delegation and publicise the event
- To back the 8 February Stand Up To Racism trade union conference, and to fund and send a delegation and publicise the event
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