Women Against The Far Right meet at The Quaker Meeting House on Sunday 26 October

Women against the Far Right

On Sunday 26 October local women are invited to gather at the Quaker Meeting House to address the issue of misogyny within the Far Right. Jenny Sutton from Hastings Stand Up To Racism campaign group explains why the group have raised this call to action.

The portrayal of Black and brown men as a threat to white women is woven into the European ideology of white supremacy, an essential part of slavery, colonialism and Empire.

The Far Right use the Rotherham ‘grooming gangs’ scandal to tarnish all men of Pakistani and Indian origin as predators. They use the arrests of Afghan and Eritrean asylum-seekers for sexual assault to label all refugees as potential rapists.

Their so-called “Great Replacement” theory insists that a sinister elite, funded by Jewish finance, is plotting to destroy “white, western, Christian civilisation” by replacing it with Black and brown Muslims – portrayed, alongside the trans community, as a threat to “our women and children.” It’s a toxic brew of racism, Islamophobia, antisemitism, sexism and transphobia mixed with nostalgia for an old patriarchal order.

Racism and white supremacy: a British tradition

Reform UK and the Far Right claim to “protect our women” from the threat they say comes from refugees, migrants, Black, brown and Muslim men, but the facts show otherwise. Most abusers of women and children are white men. 40% plus of those arrested for racist violence over the summer have convictions for domestic or child abuse.

The biggest threat to women comes from the Far Right:

• They want white women in the home and having babies
• They want Black, brown and Muslim women deported
• They want Trans women to cease to exist
• They want disabled women without rights or dignity

Sexism, misogyny and the ‘manosphere’

The Far Right use the online world to brainwash and recruit young men. Andrew Tate, Jordan Peterson and online influencers in the ‘manosphere’ seize on the alienation and disaffection of young men. They start with fitness and self-help advice – but the macho warrior image they promote easily slides into far-right racist misogyny.

Stand together against the Far Right

The event on Sunday 26 October will have speakers and discussion covering the themes above. All women are invited to see how they can get involved.

Women Against the Far Right runs from 2.15–5pm at the Quaker Meeting House in Hastings town centre – 5 South Terrace TN34 1SA.
For more information you can email Hastings Stand Up to Racism (HSUTR) hastingssutr@gmail.com or visit the HSUTR social media streams on Instagram and Facebook.

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