Justice for Trayvon Martin – London Protest
1.30pm – 4pm
Saturday 31 March
Outside the US Embassy
Grosvenor Square
London W1A 1AE
On Facebook here
racism
Unite Against Fascism Conference 25 February
10am to 4.30pm
Conway Hall, 25 Red Lion Square, London WC1R 4RL.
(nearest tube Holborn)
Diane Abbott is right to promote black unity
By Andrew Williams
The recent grotesque furore whipped up against Diane Abbott, based on an entirely mischievous and unsustainable accusation of racism, coming within a day of the long-awaiting verdict in the Stephen Lawrence trial, looked remarkably like an opportunist backlash against the progressive discussion on racism that began to unfold as a result of the trial.
National convention: Celebrate diversity, defend multiculturalism, oppose Islamophobia and racism
Speakers include:
Jack Dromey MP • Helen Goodman MP • Peter Hain MP • Claude Moraes MEP • Jean Lambert MEP • Farooq Murad, Secretary General, Muslim Council of Britain • Edie Friedman, Executive Director, Jewish Council for Racial Equality • Michelle Stanistreet, NUJ General Secretary • Hugh Lanning, Dep Gen Secretary, PCS • Steve Hart, Political Director, Unite the Union • Megan Dobney, Regional Secretary SERTUC • Zita Holbourne, PCS NEC • Bob Lambert, co-Director, European Muslim Research Centre • Jody McIntyre, Journalist • Peter Oborne, Journalist • Dilowar Khan, Director, London Muslim Centre • Alaa’ Samarrai, VP Student Affairs, Federation of Student Islamic Societies (FOSIS) • Kanja Sesay, NUS Black Students’ Officer • Nitin Sawney, Musician • Sabby Dhalu, Secretary, One Society Many Cultures • Denis Fernando, Lesbian and Gay Coalition Against Racism • Weyman Bennett, Joint National Secretary, Unite Against Fascism • Martin Smith, National Co-ordinator, Love Music Hate Racism
Anti-fascist victory as fascist EDL prevented from entering Tower Hamlets
By Stephen MacAvoy
The mobilisation of several thousand anti-fascists – including local Muslim and other faith communities, trade unionists, students, LGBT organisations and many others – in Tower Hamlets on 3 September landed a huge defeat on the EDL by preventing it from entering the borough.
The violence of Europe’s far-right
By Andrew Williams
July’s terrorist atrocity directed against the Norwegian Labour Party has been a lethal reminder of the role violence plays in Europe’s far-right. The twin attacks in Oslo and at the Utoya island youth camp resulted in 77 deaths, primarily of young people.