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STOP THE RISE OF RACIST REFORM UK
ELECTORAL opinion polls indicate that Nigel Farage’s Reform UK could make significant gains in elections taking place on May 1.
Several general election voting intention polls place Reform in the lead, which if replicated in a general election could put Farage in No 10 in coalition with the Conservative Party.
For the first time in British history, a party to the right of the Tories could take power.
Donald Trump is a strong supporter of Farage and Reform UK and has implemented horrific racist policies. We must stop Britain from following the same trajectory as the US.
Reform UK mobilises voters based on scapegoating refugees and migrants for the cost-of-living crisis and stirring up racism and Islamophobia.Meanwhile, it offers no solutions to this crisis.
Its general election manifesto pledged to cut corporation tax for the largest corporations in Britain at a time when many corporations are making billions in profits and included £50 billion of cuts to the NHS, education and social care.
The rise of Farage and Reform UK is a product of successive governments attacking living standards of the many and scapegoating refugees and migrants. Sadly Labour is continuing this trajectory with various cuts and videos of deportations, anti-refugee adverts with Reform UK branding and pledges to remove asylum-seekers from some areas.
We call on the government to reverse these policies and adopt a human rights-based refugee and migration policy that implements safe passage for asylum-seekers and compensation for those impacted by the Windrush scandal. We urge voters to use their vote to stop Reform UK on May
Signed: Diane Abbott MP
Bell Ribeiro-Addy MP
Daniel Kebede, NEU general secretary
Fran Heathcote, PCS general secretary
Mick Whelan, Aslef general secretary
Sarah Woolley, Bakers Food and Allied Workers Union general secretary
Taranjit Chana, TUC LGBT+ committee
Kevin Courtney, Stand up to Racism co-chair
Mohammed Kozbar, Finsbury Park Mosque
David Rosenberg, Jewish Socialists’ Group
Chantelle Lunt, Merseyside Black Lives Matter
Sabby Dhalu and Weyman Bennett, Stand up to Racism co-conveners
Samira Ali, Love Music Hate Racism
Myriam Kane, Black Liberation Alliance
Lewis Nielsen, We Demand Change
Stop Reform UK in the local elections door to door leafleting sessions
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Wednesday 30 April 11am Rose Hill (email contact@oxfordstanduptoracism.org.uk if you would like to help)
What else you can do:
- Donate to the Oxford Stand Up To Racism crowdfunder to raise funds to cover costs of 40,000 election flyers
- Share the national campaign page
- Join Stand Up to Racism to build the antiracist fightback against Farage and Reform UK
May Day march and rally
Help us to take the anti-racist message on the Oxford May Day march and rally organised by Oxford and District Trades Council.
Event starts at 11:30 - see image below.
There will be a Stand Up To Racism workshopat 14:15 to discuss the election results and the campaign against Reform UK.
Oxford Union hosting racist and bigotted speakers....again!
Oxford Trinity term will see a cavalcade of far-right extremists and crude populists paraded before Oxford students at the Oxford Union. The Oxford Union portrays itself as a bastion of “free speech”, but in recent years this has been interpreted as an excuse for offering a platform to notorious racists and fascists, including an infamous invitation to holocaust denier David Irving and then BNP leader Nick Griffin in 2007. other Nazis and racists invted in the past include: Tommy Robinson (twice), Alice Weidel of the AfD, Marine and Marachel Le Pen,, Katy Hopkins and Steve Bannon.
20th May Charlie Kirk is invited to speak twice in one day. He will speak at the main debate in defence of the world's #1 racist Donald Trump. In December 2018 Kirk and his colleagues launched “Turning Point UK” at an invitation-only event at London’s RAC Club, hosted by the conspiracy theorist John Mappin. Since then, Kirk’s efforts to “mainstream” far-right ideas have run into trouble. Turning Point UK became best known for organising street protests against LGBT+ activities. TPUK has struggled to dissociate itself from Patriotic Alternative and other nazis and fascists who latched on to these street protests.
Protest Kirk's invitation at the debate from 7 PM, St Michael's Street, off Cornmarket, central Oxford.
29th May Elon Musk’s father Errol will speak on 29 May in opposition to the motion “Africa must evict its colonial masters”.
5th June R.J. Hauman, a fellow at the far-right Heritage Foundation and president of a lobbying group on the Trumpian right, the National Immigration Center for Enforcement. Stone has been investigated by the FBI for ties to the far-right gangs known as Proud Boys and Oath Keepers who were involved in the pro-Trump insurrection that stormed the US Capitol in January 2021.
To maintain the campaign against the rise in racism and fascism we need regular support to cover costs of meeting venues, leaflets, coach hire, speakers expenses and many other campaigning expenses. Please consider making a regular commitment of £1-2 a month to help halt the growth of racism and the far right.
Promoted by Stand Up to Racism, PO Box 79407, London N17 1HP.