Following their AGM on Monday, Southampton Stand Up To Racism announced that they will be launching a new group: Southampton Women Against The Far Right.
In a statement on social media, they said that the group would be “part of a wider national initiative set up by Stand Up To Racism – bringing together activists, trade unionists and organisations committed to challenging the far right’s attempts to use women’s safety to fuel racism and division.”
They continued that the group would confront narratives pushed by the far right attacking refugees and asylum seekers under the guise of protecting ‘our women,’ and that the group would “campaign for real action on women’s safety, while building solidarity with women seeking refuge and sanctuary.”
Southampton Stand Up To Racism will be holding a ‘defend refugees’ march and counter-demonstration in Portswood, Southampton, on Friday (29/1/26), in response to an anticipated anti-asylum seeker protest set to be held outside Highfield House Hotel, which houses asylum seekers who have lawfully been placed in the accommodation by the Home Office while they await the outcome of their asylum applications. The hotel, which is in a residential area, has been the focus of dozens of anti-asylum seeker protests since early last summer.
Southampton Stand Up To Racism is inviting people to gather at the bus stop near Waitrose in Portswood at 5pm before marching together up Portswood high street to hold a counter demonstration outside the hotel, in a show of unity with refugees.
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