Transport Salaried Staffs' Association

Get active against the fascist threat in 2012

Unite Against Fascism National Conference
Saturday 25 February 2012
10am–4.30pm

Conway Hall, 25 Red Lion Square, London WC1R 4RL
(nearest tube Holborn)

Initial speakers:

Billy Hayes Communication Workers Union General Secretary
Hugh Lanning Public and Commercial Services Union Deputy General Secretary
Kevin Courtney National Union of Teachers Deputy General Secretary
Farooq Murad Secretary General, Muslim Council of Britain
Dr. Richard Stone Advisor, the Lawrence Inquiry
Dr. Edie Friedman Jewish Council for Racial Equality
Sabby Dhalu & Weyman Bennett Joint Secretaries Unite Against Fascism

 

Themes include:
• Campaigning against the English Defence League
• The British Freedom Party – the new fascist electoral threat
• After the Lawrence Trial: No more racist attacks
• Defending multiculturalism
• Challenging Islamophobia and hate crimes against Muslim communities
• Stopping EDL attacks on trade union and Occupy movements
• Racism and the global economic crisis
• Lessons from Stoke and East London – defeating the BNP

 

 

The economic crisis, falling living standards and rising unemployment are leading to a rise in racism. Migrants, black, Muslim and traveller communities are wrongly blamed. The recent guilty verdict in the Stephen Lawrence case represents some justice after 18 years of campaigning by his family, but racist attacks and murders remain a reality in Britain.

The English Defence League, which has engaged in street violence and anti-Islamic campaigns, have contributed to this environment. The last decade has seen the highest votes polled for a fascist organisation, the BNP, in British history. The EDL will now join with former BNP members to promote the British Freedom Party, a new fascist political party which will aim to exploit this racist climate.

UAF’s national conference will bring together anti-fascists, trade unionists, faith groups, black, LGBT communities, disability organisations and students to campaign against the far right and turn out the anti-fascist vote in the London and local elections this May.

Click here to register: http://uaf.org.uk/2011/12/uaf-conference-saturday-25-february-central-london

(£12 delegates / £6 students and concessions)