France: the revolt deepens   

France is ablaze in revolt. 800,000 marched across the country on Saturday in rage at Macron's government.  The movement started by school students has brought in university students and workers in huge numbers, and has generalised quickly into a wider anger at all that is wrong with French society. It has rocked the establishment, has changed French politics and the last week has seen mass protests in Italy, Albania, Spain and Greece. 

It would be fantastic to see students and workers emulate these movements here and raise demands against austerity to ignite a movement.  Solidarity protests would be a good place to start.  See and share SW coverage here.

Pushing back the far right         

Last week saw more revelations on the racism at the heart of Reform UK.  Pushing back the three far right threats we face - Reform, Restore Britain and Patriot Platform - is the key priority for the SWP. Burnham's bounce is fragile, his budget next week is unlikely to alleviate the cost of living crisis and the far right landscape is thickening. 
 
The weekend saw an impressive range of anti-racist mobilisations and events. 400+ joined the unity demonstrations in Cambridge and Oxford, while over 100 joined unity demos in Stevenage, Northampton, Carmarthen and Canterbury - some of them the first ever Stand Up to Racism events in those areas. Plus in response to Patriot Platform appearing in Sheffield, Sheffield SUTR organised an emergency meeting attended by 300 people that agreed to build for the unity protest this Saturday. 

Continued mobilisation wherever the far right raise their heads is needed.  This weeks SWP public meeting is a great opportunity to discuss the strategy and tactics of fighting racism.

Next Oxford and Thames Valley SWP meeting - all welcome

FIGHTING RACISM

The revolutionary tradition

7PM Wednesday 21st October

New Road Baptist Church, Bonn Square, Oxford, OX1 1LQ

or join via zoom https://oxfordswp.org.uk/zoom

Future meetings
 

28/10  - Andrew Tate and the Manosphere

5/11 - France, Spain, Albania: are the Gen Z revolts coming to Europe?
 

On 28 March, half a million people marched together against the far right

We’ve shown the country that the politics of hate do not speak for all of us. 

But the local election results and the recent pogroms and racist riots in Belfast, Glasgow and Southampton are a wake-up call that our work is nowhere near done. Across the country, the far right is growing louder and more organised.

Those who push a message of racism and hate are getting more confident – and we will not stand back and watch it happen.

On Saturday 24 October, thousands of people will gather in London to organise, collaborate, and build the future together as part of two summits – North and South.

A space for organisers, campaigners, trade unionists, activists, creatives, educators, community leaders and local people to organise, collaborate and share strategies about how we stop the far right.

This is not a conference for people who sit back and listen.

It is a summit to build power and plan action.

Help us plan, organise and build together against the far right in local communities across the country.

Save the date and book your place.  

Let us know if you would like to travel with others from Oxford

Speakers include:

  • Asad Rehman, Friends of the Earth
  • Sharon Graham, Unite the Union
  • Claire Williams, UNISON
  • Bell Ribeiro-Addy MP
  • Shabna Begum, Runnymede Trust
  • Fran Heathcote, PCS
  • Dawn Butler, MP
  • Jen Brister, comedian
  • Rachel Millward, Green Party
  • Minnie Rahman, Praxis
  • Lewis Nielsen, Together Alliance
  • Daniel Kebede, National Education Union
  • Mawaan Rizwan, actor and comedian
  • Maxine Heron, writer and model
  • Louisa Munch, critical theorist
  • Lisa Moorish, DJ and singer
  • Samira Ali, Women Against Far Right

Workshops include:

  • Unions and workers: how do we counter far right arguments in the working class?
  • Creating a counter-culture against the far right
  • Bringing together communities under attack from the far right
  • Community organising and building a Local Together Alliance
  • Challenging the climate crisis and the rising far-right
  • Authoritarianism, war and bigotry: opposing the international far right
  • Rejecting the far right lies: challenging racism, Islamophobia and antisemitism
  • Women against the far right
 

Electronic Against Hate - 29th October at the Bullingdon

Let's party with a purpose -  get bio's and early bird tickets here

This special Electronic Against Hate line-up that features two of the most exciting and provocative female electronic artists based in the UK.
 

OXFORD PROTEST

END THE GENOCIDE!

END APARTHEID!

PROTEST IS NOT TERRORISM!

DIVEST FROM ISRAEL!

FREE PALESTINE!

Assemble 12:30PM

Manzil Way green, East Oxford, OX4 1YH

The Israeli genocide of Palestinians has created the most sustained wave of local and national protests in British history.  It is a movement that has finally forced the government to take limited action against Israel - after 3 years of support for Israel's atrocities in Gaza and the West bank.

It is also a movement that is facing ongoing attempts to smear it as antisemitic and in support of terrorism, including the arrest of people for holding signs supporting Palestine Action, a media lambasting of the Greens for passing a motion that Zionism is racism, plus increasing targeting by the far right.

We need to keep the pressure against the ongoing genocide and apartheid and defend the right to protest.

We stand together in solidarity and call on Oxford University, Oxford NHS Trust, Oxford Council and all other institutions to fully divest from Israel.