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Dated - 11 Oct 2016
Birth of a movement—voices of resistance from the Stand Up To Racism conference

The Stand Up To Racism (SUTR) conference in London united refugees, councillors, students, trade unionists and others —and showed the potential to push back racism.

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Rotherham 12 - prosecution witness seen with men giving Nazi salutes, court hears
News

Rotherham 12 – prosecution witness seen with men giving Nazi salutes, court hears

A prosecution witness in the Rotherham 12 trial was pictured alongside a group of men giving Nazi salutes.
18 October 2016
Activists rally for east London youth worker who says he was attacked by the police
News

Activists rally for east London youth worker who says he was attacked by the police

Around 150 people crowded into the Arbour youth centre in Tower Hamlets, east London, on Friday night for a public meeting. They had came to show solidarity with Zac Hussein, a youth worker at the centre, who says he was attacked by the police. 
16 October 2016
Anti-racists take to streets across Britain to demand child refugees are let in
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Anti-racists take to streets across Britain to demand child refugees are let in

Two men who came to Britain as child refugees in the 1930s spoke out for the refugee children of today at London Liverpool Street last night Friday. Labour lord Alf Dubs and Professor Leslie Brent came as part of the “Kindertransport” trains fleeing the Nazis. 
15 October 2016
Dario Fo - a committed revolutionary who stood against the state
Obituaries

Dario Fo – a committed revolutionary who stood against the state

Nobel Prize-winning playwright and revolutionary activist Dario Fo, who has died at the age of 90, was one of the most important writers in Italian history, writes Mark Brown
14 October 2016
Big turnout on Newsquest picket lines as workers start 7-day strike
News

Big turnout on Newsquest picket lines as workers start 7-day strike

Journalists working on regional newspapers in south London walked out on the first day of a week-long strike today, Thursday.
13 October 2016
Ealing and Haringey - anti-racists get organised and on the streets in London
News

Ealing and Haringey – anti-racists get organised and on the streets in London

Anti-racists lobbied Ealing council in west London yesterday, Tuesday, to demand councillors support the implementation of the "Dubs Amendment". 
12 October 2016
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Far right got ‘more than they bargained for’, Rotherham 12 trial hears

A Nazi ringleader led a drunken street attack on Asian men after an anti-fascist demonstration in Rotherham marking the racist murder of a grandfather, a jury has heard.
12 October 2016
Lancashire’s fracking plan generates deep resistance
News

Lancashire’s fracking plan generates deep resistance

Hundreds of protesters gathered at short notice on a rural stretch of Preston New Road in Lancashire last Saturday against the Tories forcing through fracking.
11 October 2016
3,000-strong rally marks 80th anniversary of Cable Street - and remembers how to win
News

3,000-strong rally marks 80th anniversary of Cable Street – and remembers how to win

Some 3,000 people marched down Cable Street, east London, on Sunday to mark the 80th anniversary of the Battle of Cable Street.
11 October 2016
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Privatised staff fight back in Sheffield

Two strikes in outsourced council services are exposing the cost of privatisation in Sheffield.
11 October 2016
Mazher Mahmood found guilty but tougher questions remain about the ‘Fake Sheikh’
The Troublemaker

Mazher Mahmood found guilty but tougher questions remain about the ‘Fake Sheikh’

Mazher Mahmood, known as the “Fake Sheikh”, has been found guilty of conspiring to pervert the course of justice.
11 October 2016
'Southern rail - do your worst' say defiant striking train guards
News

‘Southern rail – do your worst’ say defiant striking train guards

Train guards were defiant as they began a three-day strike on Tuesday against Southern rail bosses’ plans to introduce the dangerous Driver Only Operation (DOO).
11 October 2016