TUC Conference Centre, Congress House, Great Russell Street, London WC1 (nearest tube: Tottenham Court Road)The UAF national conference is taking place on Saturday 1st March 2008 at the TUC Conference Centre, London. The conference will bring together individuals and organisations involved in campaigning against the BNP.
In seven years the BNP vote has grown 97 fold, polling over 3,000 votes in 2000 to over 292,000 in 2007. If the BNP’s vote trend continues they could be on course to make a significant breakthrough into British politics. This year the BNP will be standing candidates in the London Assembly and local elections across Britain. In previous London Assembly elections in 2004 the BNP missed getting elected by a mere 0.1%. The BNP’s election to the Assembly would signal the biggest breakthrough by a fascist organisation in British politics.
London has strong anti-fascist tradition from the Jewish and Irish communities, trade unions and others defeating the Blackshirts at Cable Street in the 1930s, campaigns against the National Front by the Anti-Nazi League and Rock Against Racism in the 1970s and the defeat of the BNP in Millwall in 1994.
This conference will discuss strategies that have been successful in defeating fascism including trade unions, Muslim, Jewish, Christian and other faiths, black, Asian, lesbian, gay and disabled communities.
Our last conference in February 2007 brought together over 600 delegates from around the country, a broad range of speakers reflected the diversity of our movement including trade unions, students, Muslim, Jewish, Sikh, Hindu and African Caribbean communities, lesbian and gay rights campaigners, celebrities, politicians and many others.
For more information: 020 7833 4916 / unite@ucu.org.uk
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