Stand Up To Racism - Edinburgh

Save the date! A very exciting pop-up shop is coming to Leith this November, featuring antiracist designs, merchandise, crafts, home-baked goods and so much more! 🛒 Come and do some early Christmas shopping with us and support Stand Up to Racism Edinburgh’s activities. Our new festive jumpers (extras from our successful Kickstarter) will also be for sale, but at very limited numbers!
Where: Edinburgh Pop-up shop, 27 Albert Pl, Edinburgh EH7 5HN
When: 21st and 22nd November - 10am to 5pm
Keep an eye out for info on an opening night celebration too! See you there! ✊

This is ‘Daffy’, unmasked! He’s a far-right agitator, bully and rage baiter who harassed and antagonised two young refugee men this weekend in Perth. Their ‘crime’ was being brown in public. Daffy’s vile rage-bait was shared by chief N**i grifter Tommy Robinson who invited a vile racist pile on, threatening the safety of the young men who dared to challenge Daffy’s racism.

On one far-right page where the rage bait video was shown, the hysterical racist online lynching that followed was violent, threatening and grotesque, including calls to ‘Hang the black b*stards’, ‘These people need to be fu**ed up and sent back’ and ‘F**k off you sand eating f**k’.

Their hate speech has no place in a civil society.

Daffy is not some ‘concerned citizen’, he joined N**is from ‘Scottish Freedom Patriots’ to attack a peaceful antiracist rally in Falkirk last August, which included throwing projectiles, misogynistic abuse and threats towards women and kids. Women were called “f**king cows” and “Fat hofer”.

Daffy is co-founder of newly formed vigilante group Perth Safeguarding and Awareness group, allegedly formed to protect women and children in the area.

What is clear by now, is the far-right don’t care about women and their safety, instead they exploit people’s concerns over the issue to build their racist movement. Indeed, it is the far-right who are a threat to women and the wider community.

He was also involved with Alba Defensor and their paramilitary style protests that we have seen, supported by far-right Restore’s Craig Houston.

The sense of impunity and entitlement by the far-right to racially harass, threaten or intimidate black and brown people going about their daily life is extremely worrying and unacceptable. It should be rejected and condemned by all.

The far-right dream of building up a racist street movement to wield violence against migrants, refugees and any one who opposes them. This targeting has been facilitated by the fear mongering and mainstreaming of racist ideas by far-right parties like Reform UK who seek to scapegoat the most vulnerable in our society for the problems caused by the interests of the richest people who run this country.

We need people, every single person that objects to racism to stand up and reject this narrative of violence and division in our city, our community.

We all have the right to live our lives in peace without intimidation or fear of violence. Join us to oppose the far-right.

If you know Daffy’s name and any other info of interest, please DM us.

Unite Against Fascism

WOMEN'S groups are set to protest outside Holyrood as MSPs debate a Reform UK motion they say would "criminalise" Muslim women's clothing.

‘Campaigners will gather outside the Scottish Parliament at 4pm on Thursday, October 8, as MSPs debate a motion lodged by Reform MSP Thomas Kerr on "Face Coverings in Public Places".

The demonstration has been organised by Amina – the Muslim Women's Resource Centre, Women Against the Far Right Scotland, Stand Up To Racism Scotland and Sisters Against Cuts.

Mariam Ahmed, chief executive of Amina, previously told The National that Kerr was "weaponising Muslim women's garments" and "playing into" existing Islamophobia.

"Muslim women don't need to be rescued from their choices," she said.

"We're not in the business of policing what women wear, and we shouldn't be policing what women wear."

She also warned that Muslim women were already facing fear and hostility, saying some were "terrified to use public transport" or walk down the street.

"There's already such a big rise in Islamophobia," she said.

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Thomas Kerr faces Holyrood protest over 'abhorrent' calls to restrict burqa WOMEN'S groups are set to protest outside Holyrood as MSPs debate a Reform UK motion they say would "criminalise" Muslim women's clothing.

Join us is Solidarity with all Mulism women ✊

📅 Thursday 8th October @ 4PM
📍 Scottish Parliament, Edinburgh

MSPs are debating a so-called burqa ban - some are using the veneer of women’s rights to stoke division and harm. Criminalising women’s clothing is misogyny.

Say NO to Islamophobia.
Say NO to the weaponisation of violence against women and girls.
Say NO to attacks on Muslim women.
Say NO to ALL forms of misogyny.

Called by Women Against the Far Right Scotland, supported by Sutr Scotland

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Unite Against Fascism

Join Stand up to Racism Edinburgh’s Unity Festival for an afternoon of music, food, art, dance and culture. Come along and meet new people.

Anti racism is not just about opposing racism when it appears. It’s about building the kind of communities where we know our neighbours, understand one another and are ready to stand together when any of us come under attack.

Everyone is welcome in Edinburgh!

🎉 Sat 24th Oct, 11.30am -3pm Castlebrae Community Campus, Craigmillar

Unite the Clans gamble to ‘harden up’ and rejuvenate their racist project by openly promoting National Socialism ideology has backfired, badly. Their numbers were in decline anyway, but today only 20 N**is turned up to protest in their home turf of Aberdeen.

It was a pathetic turnout even by their own standards and looks like their Klan is in terminal decline. They claim to represent the majority, but today’s photos of their hate protest say otherwise. Ordinary people do not want to have anything to do with their racist extremist views and worship of fascist ideology.

Unite the Clans (UTC) had originally planned to protest outside the French Consulate in Edinburgh on Saturday, but ditched that protest after Aberdeen South Tory MP Douglas Lumsden made an incendiary statement against refugees being placed in the area. Lumsden claimed Aberdeen was being treated as 'a hotel' for refugees, prompting UTC to congratulate him, saying the MP 'is fighting for us' and provided them an excuse to call a new fascist protest in Aberdeen to build on his statements.

Everyone across society should condemn Lumsden for emboldening today's supporters of the N**is.

UTC had hoped for a ‘bounce’ on their turnout, following the mainstream coverage of Lumsden’s statement, but the masses did not materialise.

Instead, they turned up to a wet Sunday afternoon to huddle in the entrances of blocks of flats in a residential area of Aberdeen in a desperate effort not to get soaked.

Only about half of them were actually from Aberdeen, the rest scraped up from Peterhead, Perth and one or two from Glasgow way. They were opposed by about fifty local antifascists who mostly stood with their backs to them and ignored them whilst they screeched racist filth down a megaphone. They tried to intimidate antifascists by coming over towards the counter protest. After only an hour, even they were bored with their antics and so they wandered off in the drizzle to cheerful jeers from the counter protest. The counter protest was organised by the Aberdeen Anti-Fascist Alliance and Aberdeen Trades Union Council, supported by Aberdeen Sutr.

Yesterday in Edinburgh, 150 antiracists gathered to celebrate our victory in stopping the far-right from protesting in the capital and we held a colourful Unity Rally instead. UTC have been beset by legal troubles, internal fights and have faced overwhelming antifascists resistance when they have attempted to march in the big cities. It seems Edinburgh was a bridge too far, for the fascists yesterday.

Overall it was a weekend of antiracist and antifascist resistance across Scotland and it should give us confidence to go into our communities, our workplaces, schools, colleges, universities and community campaigns to build up the anti-racist networks that we need for the fight ahead.

Unite Against Fascism

Well done to antiracists from Fife SUTR and Dunfermline Creatives Network who humiliated Reform UK on Dunfermline high street yesterday!

Antiracists outnumbered Reform and handed out hundreds of leaflets exposing the racist, scapegoating nature of Reform. The party is a threat to all of us except the very rich elite who fund it. Reform UK policies and rhetoric direct the blame onto migrants and refugees for the problems we face in society while it protects the super rich who are grabbing more and more for themselves. They use racism to distract attention whilst they fill their own pockets.

When antiracist’s tried to engage with Reform UK they refused to answer questions around their policies and told an antiracist to shut his mouth. Another asked “have you worked in a pit” and “get a job”.

We have jobs, often more than one as wages are low and housing costs soo high due to decades of Tory attacks on social housing and wages. Something the Tories escaping to join Reform UK en mass seem to forget.

They were aggressive, took photos and mocked those that challenged their policies. One Reform UK woman asked " where's thats accent from its not local" to someone who has lived in Fife their whole life and now lives in Dunfermline. According to this branch of Reform UK you get questioned if you haven’t lived in the town your entire life. It seems they are even scared of white Scottish born people from other areas, moving into Dunfermline to make it a home for themselves.

The majority of the public in Dunfermline were incredibly happy and receptive to see us on the street opposing the far-right Reform UK stall, with a local craft business even buying us lunch to show thanks and solidarity with us.

Their final humiliation came when Reform UK packed up early after nearly losing their gazebo multiple times in the wind and struggling to hold it down!

The antiracists and community of Dunfermline showed that we stand for unity and community and that we will oppose any attempt by Reform UK to spread division and build their racist project. High energy filled the day from our side spreading hope over hate and chants of refugees are welcome here!

Reform UK left deflated and certainly unhappy to be so utterly humiliated!

A massive thank you to all the love and support to folks who made it down 😊

Edinburgh is antifascist and N**i free this weekend. Openly fascist group ‘Unite the Clans’ and their boot licking adherents are running scared as they failed to show as 150 antiracists joined our Unity Rally outside St Giles in Edinburgh on Saturday!

Earlier, this week to no surprise Unite the Clans were openly promoting National Socialism, praising N**i ideology and presenting it as a model for Scotland’s future.

The antisemitism is equally explicit. Unite the Clans portrays Jewish people as a hidden power controlling banks, the media and politics, “pulling the strings of nations” and deliberately engineering mass immigration to destroy national identity. It claims Jews fought National Socialism because it threatened their power. This is not coded language or insinuation. It is the same poisonous antisemitic conspiracy politics that sits at the heart of N**i ideology.

Unite the Clans has spent months attempting to portray itself as a movement of ordinary people with legitimate concerns about immigration and women’s safety. That pretence has now collapsed. When a movement tells you that National Socialism is its “heritage” and its “future”, we should take it seriously.

The history of fascism teaches us what happens when organised racism and antisemitism are normalised, excused or treated as somebody else’s problem. N**i Germany persecuted and murdered millions. Six million European Jews were systematically murdered in the Holocaust, while Roma, disabled people, LGBT+ people, political opponents and many others were also subjected to brutal persecution and murder.

“Never Again” cannot simply be something we say about the past. It means confronting antisemitism, racism and fascism when they organise in our communities today.

We celebrated our victory and vowed that Edinburgh welcomes refugees, no-one is illegal and we won’t let the fascists divide us!

A big thanks to all our speakers and Cabaret Against the Hate Speech for providing sound and music. Thank you to Falkirk For All for supporting us.

Solidarity to antifascists in Aberdeen today. Let your friends know and get along if you can!

📣 Oppose Unite the Clans, Sunday 27th Sept, 1pm at Farmers Hall, Aberdeen