Taking on racism: the role of trade unions and community organising
Soundings - ISSN 1362-6620
Volume 2024 Number 88
Taking on racism: the role of trade unions and community organising
Kirsten Forkert, Dave Featherstone talk to Mohammed Mumit, pages 59‑72
DOI: 10.3898/SOUN:88.04.2024
Abstract
Mohammed Mumit is a member of the Public and Commercial Services Union, and of the union’s National Black Members’ Committee. He has spent the last few years trying to help develop Birmingham Trades Union Council as a vehicle that can bring about worker community solidarities. He sees unions as bottom-up - not top-down - organisations. Here he talks about the role of trade unions in community organising, including in building defence groups in solidarity with communities threatened with attack by the far right, as in the August 2024 riots. He also notes Starmer’s law and order response and failure to speak out against the racism of the rioters. In discussing the far right’s online presence, he argues that cuts in youth services can lead to young people looking for alternative sources of community - including the community offered by the far right.
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Kirsten Forkert, Dave Featherstone (2024) Taking on racism: the role of trade unions and community organising, Soundings, 2024(88), 59-72 . https://doi.org/10.3898/SOUN:88.04.2024