Registration for the event is open now, with tickets and further information available at bit.ly/stopboris
View and download the timetable for the conference HERE
View and download the latest flyer for the conference HERE
Other speakers at the event include Gary Younge, Journalist • Miguel Roldan, Spanish firefighter • Louise Raw, author • Richard Burgon MP • Emma Dent Coad MP • Alex Mayer MEP • Claude Moraes MEP • Julie Ward MEP • Jean Lambert, Green Party • Mark Serwotka, PCS General Secretary • Kevin Courtney Joint General Secretary NEU • Tony Kearns Deputy General Secretary (postal) CWU • Jane Loftus, CWU Vice President • Nita Sanghera UCU Vice President • Anas Altikriti, Muslim Association of Britain • Ged Grebby, Show Racism the Red Card Chief Executive • Mohammed Kozbar, Finsbury Park Mosque Chairman • Unmesh Desai, GLA Member, Labour, City and East London • Damien Gayle, Journalist • Ben Chacko, Morning Star editor • Rakhia Ismail, Islington Councillor • Gerry Gable, Editor/Publisher, Searchlight • Sabby Dhalu and Weyman Bennett, Stand Up To Racism
Challenging Johnson, Trump and the racist right
Friends House, 173-177 Euston Road, London NW1 2BJ
Saturday 19th October 9.30am-5pm
Fueled by Donald Trump’s presidency, racism, Islamophobia and antisemitism are on the rise.
Hate
crime and far right terror attacks are at epidemic proportions, and the
racist and fascist right are experiencing the biggest growth in their
support since the 1930’s.
In Britain, with the toxic nature of
the debate around the deepening Brexit crisis, mainstream politicians
have relied ever more on ratcheting up racist division and scapegoating,
deliberately fostering a ‘hostile environment’. We now have populist
racists centre stage of politics, with “Britain’s Trump”, Boris Johnson,
sitting as Prime Minister. Whether you voted Leave or Remain, we must
unite to oppose their racist agenda.
Johnson described Muslim women who wear the Burka as looking like ‘letterboxes’ and ‘bank robbers’ and described black people as having ‘watermelon smiles’.
Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage has built his career on scapegoating migrants and the Muslim community.
And
while fascist Tommy Robinson and far right UKIP have been marginalised
through successful anti racist campaigning, Johnson and Farage’s
politics of divide and rule, scapegoating refugees, migrants and Muslims
will only embolden the racist and fascist right.
While thousands
suffer as a result of the hostile environment, the Windrush scandal,
institutional racism, the Grenfell disaster and the humanitarian crisis
facing refugees–a Johnson government is only set to fuel the fire.
On Saturday 19 October anti racists and anti fascists from across Britain, Europe and the US will gather in London at this international conference.
Come and join the debate about how we build an international movement against racism & fascism and how we drive back the populist racism of Johnson and Farage