We send our deepest condolences to the family of Henry Nowak. No family should have to experience the loss of a son. The bodycam footage and the failures of the police are shocking and tragic. But we are alarmed that known fascists and far right activists are seizing on this horrific killing to weaponise it to spread their message of hate. 

They’re doing so explicitly against the wishes of the Nowak family themselves. 
  
Speaking outside of court after Henry's attacker was sentenced, Henry’s father Mark said, “We do not want his (Henry's) death to be used to create further division, hatred or tension”. 

  
The Nowak family has suffered an indescribable loss.
  
But it’s one that’s being cynically exploited by far right and fascist forces. 
  
In advance of the sentencing, neo Nazi sect White Vanguard called a protest in Southampton purporting to be remembering Henry Nowak. 

After the attacker was jailed for murder Reform UK leader Nigel Farage called for “pure, cold outrage”.
  
Similarly, Rupert Lowe, leader of Restore Britain, told his followers, “I am going to look back in anger—I urge you all to do the same.” 
  
Tommy Robinson called out his supporters, using the far right conspiracy theory of “two-tier policing”.  Up to 2,000 thugs responded, assembling in front of Southampton Central Police Station, before marching and attacking the police.

  
Robinson is weaponising the killing to build up his fascist street fighting force after he was outnumbered on the streets of London on 16 May.
  
Lawrence Fox, a supporter of Tommy Robinson, told the crowd, “Your fury and rage are completely justified”. 
  
Nick Tenconi, leader of fascist UKIP, and Islamophobe and transphobe Posie Parker, addressed the crowd as well. 

Tommy Robinson was given the final slot. He made claims of two-tier policing, saying that, “We white people are second-class citizens in our own country. 
  
“Henry Nowak was killed because he was white.” 
  
After Robinson spoke, the crowd began to march toward the city centre, to chants of “Oh Tommy, Tommy, Tommy, Tommy, Tommy, Tommy Robinson”. 

Tommy Robinson supporters from Oxfordshire Raise the Colours were in attendance with Robinson in Southampton, and now his supporters in Oxfordshire Patriots are trying to whip up the same kind of protest Oxford, with other fascist groups trying to do the same in other towns and cities.  

Robinson's role in whipping up the violence in Southampton and beyond highlights the danger of giving him a bigger platform at the Oxford Union where he will have the opportunity to incite racist attacks to an audience of millions when the debate is broadcast by GB News.  

Oxford Stand Up To Racism has a busy couple of weeks building protests against racist agitation in Oxford.  If you would like to help with activities please email: contact@oxfordstanduoptoracism.org.uk

Matt Goodwin is on the far-right of racist Reform UK.

He has systematically mainstreamed the language of the far right - scaremongering with anti-Islam hostility and promoting the great replacement theory, including talking about economically punishing women for not having children. 

Like Farage and Tommy Robinson he has hijacked the terrible death of Henry Novak to whip up racists on our streets.

He suggests Muslims are a threat to western society, considers fascist Tommy Robinson worthy of praise, and describes Donald Trump in glowing terms.

He would “like to see Reform come forward with a detailed policy around how we’re going to tackle the Islamisation of British society”.

Goodwin's far-right rhetoric has earned him praise from Britain's #1 fascist Stephen Yaxley-Lennon (AKA Tommy Robinson), and other fascist agitators.

Join the protest to say Goodwin is not welcome here.

No Televised Platform for Fascist Tommy Robinson 

at the Oxford Union   

💥 Protest -  Thursday 17th June 6.30pm 💥 

📍St Michael's Street, Oxford OX1 2EB

Called by Oxford Stand Up to Racism

This is not about whether we should debate with people who we disagree with, it is about whether we help or hinder the elevation of fascism as a political force that endangers all freedom.

Under pressure the The Oxford Union postponed it's debate on Islam.  But it remains determined to go ahead and invite fascist and Muslim hating Stephen Yaxley-Lennon (Tommy Robinson) to speak.  He'll be joined in his attack on Islam and Muslims by hate preacher Calvin Robinson and founder of the far-right Reclaim party, Laurence Fox.

Robinson has already addressed crowds of tens of thousands urging them to "fight" along with calls to remove Muslims from the UK. He has hijacked the death of Henry Novak to whip up his racist and fascist followers and helped to inflame the Southampton protest into a riot against police.

Putting him on TV to spout his racist hate will give him an audience of millions where he can incite people to launch further attacks.  there is a real risk of a return to the racist rioting seen after the Southport murder of 3 children in 2024.

The Muslim Council of Britain said "Statements such as Tommy Robinson’s calls that “it’s time for many Muslims to leave this country,” that he “would stop Islam,” are not political speech – they are incitement. History teaches us, painfully and repeatedly, that language demanding the removal of an entire group from its home is the language that precedes ethnic cleansing and genocide."

The Oxford Union President's claim that platforming him to defeat him in debate will halt the rise of fascism and the far right has already been demonstrated to be false - by the Oxford Union itself.

Yaxley-Lennon,  Marine and Marechel Le Pen, and Steve Bannon, have already spoken at the Union - yet fascism continues to grow around them.

When Nick Griffin, then leader of the Nazi BNP, was given a platform on Question Time, BNP membership rocketed - even though Griffin was "defeated" in the arguments.

Griffin and Holocaust denier David Irving were invited to speak at the Oxford Union in 2007 but they were denied a platform by a mass demonstration that earned the national headline "Uprising against fascism" that helped to destroy the BNP.

A platform at the Oxford Union will be used by Yaxley-Lennon to boost his popularity and claim that he is important and has a hearing in high circles.  This can only strengthen his support.  It also gves him the opportunity to push for more violent street mobilisations in like we saw in Southampton.

What has broken previous fascist movements has been the kind of consistent and uncompromising opposition that broke the BNP and the English Defence League (Yaxley-Lennon's previous attempt to build a fascist street army). 

Yaxley-Lennon and his supporters need a massive boost right now after his last rally failed to draw the numbers he hoped for and which was opposed by over 100,000 people.

The Oxford Union should not give fascist Yaxley-Lennon the boost he desperately craves - instead they should stand with Oxford's diverse communities who who are working hard to block him and his supporters from spreading hate on our streets.

If you would like to help steward the protest please email contact@oxfordstanduptoracism.org.uk