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Stand Up to Racism conference, March 1, 2025
[David Gilchrist]
CAMPAIGNERS at Stand Up To Racism’s annual trade union conference on Saturday called for safer routes for refugees amid an escalation of far-right attacks on migrants.
Care4Calais chief Steve Smith pointed to how the truth was being “so distorted without conscience” by the mainstream media and the attacks that were made by the last Tory government.
He said that deterrent policies introduced by the Conservatives were continuing under Labour, adding: “People are fleeing for safety — but there are no safe routes, so they will take any system they can to get to safety.”
May elections will soon be upon us and SABBY DHALU calls for a maximum mobilisation, across Britain, to defeat Reform UK and the right at the ballot box
DIANE ABBOTT warns that Shabana Mahmood’s draconian asylum proposals fuel racist scapegoating and risk demoralising Labour’s base – potentially paving the way for Farage to No 10
Once again Tower Hamlets is being targeted by anti-Islam campaigners, this time a revamped and radicalised version of Ukip — the far-right event is now banned by the police, but we’ll be assembling this Saturday to make sure they stay away, says JAYDEE SEAFORTH
