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We build a confident anti-racist movement through unity, not guilt
In fighting against racism and fascism, it helps to clearly make the case that division and hatred emerge from the elites and those who stand to benefit from a fractured working class, argues DANIEL KEBEDE

ANTI-RACISM should make us feel confident, not uncomfortable.

Last month this question came up at the TUC’s racial justice and equality conference in London. A crucially important meeting to discuss how trade unions as a movement confront the threat of a growing far right, that we saw through the fascist violence of the summer through to today’s surging support for Reform UK in the polls.

The stakes have never been higher. The far right have always gone on the offensive under Labour governments — we saw the rise of the National Front in the 1970s, the BNP in the early 2000s.

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