At a time when the far right is growing across the UK, our answer is community power. The Radical Sharing Forum brings grassroots groups together to build relationships, share skills, and strengthen collective resistance.
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Following our online forum in March on the criminalisation of solidarity with Palestine — organised with People Against Rafael, Thanet for Palestine and Ealing Friends of Palestine — we gathered in Manchester for a day of political education, strategy and collective learning. Held on the day Italian partisans are commemorated for their victory over fascism in 1946, more than 40 organisers came together to discuss how we confront the growing presence of racism, fascism and violence in our communities.
More information on the six groups that made possible this fab edition of the Radical Sharing Forum:
- Act Up Fight Back, 📍 Leeds & London – ✊🏾 Defence classes combining political education with physical self-defence for QtBPOC communities. Website https://radicalresources.org/aufb | . Ig: https://www.instagram.com/actupfightbackleeds
- Congolese Roots, 📍 London – ✊🏾 Collective of Congolese migrants resisting extractivism and colonial legacies through community, culture, and healing. Ig: https://www.instagram.com/congoleseroots
- Magic Us!, 📍 Durham – ✊🏾 Community supporting Black parents of autistic children while challenging systemic racism in care.
- People Against Rafael, 📍 Newcastle upon Tyne – ✊🏾 Grassroots campaign opposing weapons production and demanding closure of Pearson Engineering. Ig: https://www.instagram.com/peopleagainstrafael
- Queer Migrant Pride Fest, 📍 London – ✊🏾 Free annual festival creating radical, empowering spaces led by queer migrants in asylum systems. Ig: https://www.instagram.com/queer_migrant_pride_fest
- South Asian Liberation Movement, 📍 Greater Manchester – ✊🏾 Collective resisting racism, misogyny, police violence, and xenophobia while building UK-wide solidarity. Ig: https://www.instagram.com/southasianliberationmovement
These are some of the resources shared by the campaigns attending on the day:
💥Edge's Pan-Afrikan Community Committee: email us at [email protected] if you are an Black-led organisation funded through the Edge grants and are interested in joining a Pan-Afrikaan circle facilitated by Edge members Isis and Kwesi. Coming meetings to be confirmed as soon as some groups communicate their intention to join the committee.
💥Youth the Gap is launching their first zine 'Our Flag, Our People' as a direct response to the rise of the far-right.
📆 21st May, 5pm - 9pm 📍Pelican House, E1 5QJ
🎟️ From £5 with some free tickets for thos who cannot afford a contribution
Register here: https://luma.com/o06m0c80
Share on your socials! https://www.instagram.com/p/DXzHMX2CvV3/
💥Action Against Detention and Deportations (AADD) is an autonomous collective of groups and individuals resisting detention, deportations, and the wider “hostile environment” against migrants in the UK. We are refugees, asylum seekers, migrants, comrades, and community members, and we organise horizontally. We do not have a leadership so each member takes action in each of our local communities, in any way that helps dismantle border violence and care for people in our communities. We come together to share actions, resources, and skills to connect our various struggles and support each other.
- If your group would like to join AADD, we currently organise on Signal. We have our main big chat where we share resources and call outs, and ad-hoc working groups. Please email [email protected] with the Signal names for the people from your group so we can add you to our Signal chat!
- National Weekend of Action - 20th-21st June 2026, everywhere in the UK. We’re inviting everyone to take action in their local community against borders (note that 21st June is also Queer Migrant Pride Fest in London). More info here.
- AADD National Strategy Gathering - 3rd October, Manchester (exact venue TBD). Open to anyone who are affected by and/or working against border violence. This will be a chance for us to come together as a network to connect, reflect, strategise and build resilience for our continued resistance. We're hoping to bring together current network members and bring more groups into the network. The gathering will take place in Manchester - venue tbc. We'll offer support with travel and hosting where needed. There's just a small group of us organising at the moment, so we'd love more support! If you can help, email [email protected]
💥The Medicine Cabinet We are a new collective around radical care for radical action.
We are still emerging and don’t even have a name yet so more to come soon! But in the meantime we have collected various resources that we have found helpful to embed care in our lives and in our organising that may be helpful to you!
- Here is the digital copy of our zine 'The Medicine Cabinet: Tools, Strategies, and Remedies for Radical Care'.
If you or your group would like to order print copies, please get in touch at our temporary email [email protected].
We would welcome donations to cover the printing costs but of course do let us know if you’d like free copies.
Email us at [email protected] or [email protected] if you have resources to share with the RSF attendees or in coming newsletters or social media posts.