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Anti-racismSocialist Party members initiated the organisation Youth Against Racism in Europe (YRE) in 1992, which is also organised in Greece, Germany, Belgium and Sweden. YRE's first activity was a very successful European-wide anti-racist demonstration of 40,000 people in Brussels in 1992. In Britain, YRE co-organised two large demonstrations in 1993 that shut down the BNP's headquarters in South London and has since been involved in many other anti-fascist demonstrations. Socialist Party and YRE members have recently been campaigning against the BNP in Lancashire and in Stoke following BNP activity in those areas and for community defence campaigns against racist attacks and fascist violence. A YRE anti-racism education pack has been bought by schools, youth clubs and trade unions. Click here to go to the YRE website 31 January 2004 French Government's Divisive Ban On HeadscarvesON 17 January 2004, demonstrations took place in many countries against the French government's proposal to ban the wearing of the hijab (headscarf) in France's state schools. Click here for a statement about this issue from the Committee for a Workers International (CWI - the international socialist organisation which the Socialist Party is affiliated to), as well as comments from members of Gauche Revolutionnaire (CWI, France). Police Racism - Caught Red-Handed
Hugo Pierre (above) comments on the BBC documentary "The Secret Policeman" in a major feature on police racism. Hugo Pierre, member of the Socialist Party Black and Asian group The Secret Policeman showed a group of white police recruits at a training college explaining how they treated Asians and Blacks badly for minor offences, dressed up as Ku Klux Klan members, stating Stephen Lawrence (Black victim of a racist murder) deserved it and displaying hatred in particular for Asians. Click here to read the article
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