Across Britain on Friday 13 December, thousands took to the streets on #NotMyPrimeMinister demonstrations called by Stand Up To Racism. In London the march went from a static angry presence of up to 1,000 opposite Downing Street, so taking to the streets and marching all around central London, with numbers swelling to around three thousand as people joined after work, or simply because they saw it marching by.
In Glasgow, over two thousand joined a rally that also went on an impromptu march round the city. Angry and defiant demonstrations rejecting Johnson’s racism, his sexism, his bigotry and his failure to take the threat of climate chaos seriously, also took place with hundreds joining in towns and cities all over, including Dundee, Edinburgh, Sheffield, Birmingham, York, Oxford, Nottingham, Derby, Leeds, Bristol, Cambridge and Manchester.
Stand Up To Racism is rallying the call for the anti racist movement to get onto the streets, to organise in workplaces and unions, communities and colleges to take on the divisive racist narrative pushed by the likes of Boris Johnson, Nigel Farage, Donald Trump through racist populism, and the growing far right movement we are seeing across Europe and Latin America.
When Johnson normalises racist discourse, he fans the flames of a dangerous far right, and gives the confidence to racists and those in society who enact hate crimes – we have seen a big rise in hate crime and racist attacks.
Join, organise for and tell everyone you know to come on the #M21 #WorldAgainstRacism marches in London and Glasgow for UN Anti Racism Day, Saturday 21 March 2020. Across the world, anti racists are organising mass coordinated demonstrations.
Follow the international movement for UN Anti Racism Day marches HERE
Join, share and invite to the Facebook pages for the demonstrations in Britain HERE (London) and HERE (Glasgow)
Book up, share and invite to Stand Up To Racism’s Trade Union Conference, 8 February 2020, and download and pass the model motion to support it HERE
