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In September 2025, the largest far-right gathering in Britain in living memory marched through London, while anti-asylum protests have spread throughout the country.

A Reform-led government would likely mean an unprecedented assault on working conditions and living standards – draconian clampdowns on the right to organise in unions, the end to any pretence at seeking equality of opportunity and outcomes and cuts to our jobs, pay and benefits.

In the face of this threat, trade unions will become critical as workers self-defence organisations. Over the past two decades, however, anti-far right activity has been outsourced to external groups that by their nature and size are not able to offer structural responses to the far right’s rise or to provide the necessary stewarding to keep demonstrators safe. 

We believe that the TUC and union leaderships should be leading antifascist activity. We must therefore support rank-and-file efforts by trade unionists in both self-organising and pushing the TUC to action, and support becoming active participants in this struggle ourselves. This will include not only mobilising for counter-demonstrations, but actively fighting the political arguments in our workplaces as trade unions, and pushing our national leaderships to action through democratic and external pressure.

We must present an alternative not just to the existing anti-fascist movement, but to fascism itself. Our campaign material should present a socialist response based on workers’ unity across racial and national lines, for jobs, homes, and healthcare, while refusing to give an inch to prejudice - against migrants, trans people, or any minority.

The branch therefore resolves to:

1. Conduct or cohost an educational series on opposing the far right, including practical steps for members to support and build anti-far right campaigns in their local areas and providing campaign materials;

2. Encourage affiliation to Trades Councils, mandating delegates to submit motions calling for local worker-led antifascist organising;

3. [For Public Sector employers] develop a ‘Day 1’ strategy for a Reform-led Department, to be presented for vote at a members meeting or the next AGM;

4. Identify and support any members affected by new visa restrictions, backing anti-deportation campaigns;

5. Mobilise for upcoming far right counter demonstrations in trade union blocs, recruiting stewards, offering protest and ‘know your rights’ guidance and training;

6. Become active participants in regional or national grassroots anti-far right trade union initiatives, including by joining Trade Unions Fighting the Far Right.

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In September 2025, the largest far-right gathering in Britain in living memory marched through London, while anti-asylum protests have spread throughout the country.

A Reform-led government would likely mean an unprecedented assault on working conditions and living standards – draconian clampdowns on the right to organise in unions, the end to any pretence at seeking equality of opportunity and outcomes and cuts to our jobs, pay and benefits.

In the face of this threat, trade unions will become critical as workers self-defence organisations. Over the past two decades, however, anti-far right activity has been outsourced to external groups that by their nature and size are not able to offer structural responses to the far right’s rise or to provide the necessary stewarding to keep demonstrators safe. 

We believe that the TUC and union leaderships should be leading antifascist activity nationally, with trades councils leading the struggle on a local and regional level. We must therefore support rank-and-file efforts by trade unionists in both self-organising and pushing the TUC to action, and support becoming active participants ourselves. This will include not only mobilising for counter-demonstrations, but actively fighting the political arguments in our workplaces as trade unions, and pushing our national leaderships to action through democratic and external pressure.

We must present an alternative not just to the existing anti-fascist movement, but to fascism itself. Our campaign material should present a socialist response based on workers’ unity across racial and national lines, for jobs, homes, and healthcare, while refusing to give an inch to prejudice - against migrants, trans people, or any minority.

The branch therefore resolves to:

1. Call a meeting of trade unions, tenant’s unions, residents and other organisations to set up a network for coordinating local anti-far right activity;

2. Produce campaign material under the name of the trades council, and where possible affiliated union branches, to agitate on a socialist basis against the politics of the far right;

3. To reach out to local migrants’ organisations to promote unionisation;

4. Mobilise for upcoming far right counter demonstrations in trade union blocs, recruiting stewards, offering protest and ‘know your rights’ guidance and training - including for the upcoming Tommy Robinson demonstration on May 16th;

5. To write to the General Secretary of the TUC calling on it to lead antifascist mobilisations;

6. Become active participants in regional or national grassroots anti-far right trade union initiatives, including by joining Trade Unions Fighting the Far Right and regularly attending its meetings.