26/10/2025
The left wing weekly Socialist Worker reports that a new campaigning network, affiliated with Stand Up To Racism, aims to united women against the resurgence of the British far right. Around 1,000 people came together for the online launch of the Women Against the Far Right campaign. Organiser Samira Ali said, “We want to build a movement of women pushing back against the far right”. She said, “The Labour government is parroting a racist agenda, giving confidence to a street movement. The far right is trying to mobilise in the name of women’s safety. We think this is despicable. We’ve had enough. “It is not refugees who are making us unsafe, it is exactly the people on the far right.” The rally was addressed by longstanding anti-racist and MP Diane Abbott. She said that “sadly, the Labour Party leadership is not saying what it should—that migrants are not a threat to women.” Teacher and president of the NEU education union Sarah Kilpatrick told the rally about the impact the online far right is having on students. She said the right’s lies “have taken hold in such an enormous way”. She slammed the defunding of education and the “destruction” of education for working class students. She said that “the lack of optimism is tangible. And it leads children to really unpleasant places.”
