National Assembly Against Racism
Template:Short description The National Assembly Against Racism (NAAR) was a British anti-racist and anti-fascist group.[1]
NAAR was a predominantly black-led national anti-racist grouping, formed after the acrimonious collapse of the Anti-Racist Alliance. It first met on 4 February 1995, when it launched the Anti-Racist Charter for the New Millennium, endorsed by Bill Morris of the Transport and General Workers Union and Labour MPs Diane Abbott and Keith Vaz.[2]
Lee Jasper, race relations adviser to Ken Livingstone, the mayor of London, was NAAR's chair. Socialist Action played a key role within it.[3] NAAR's student arm was Student Assembly Against Racism, organised in 1995.[4]
By 2003, its co-chairs were black Labour MP Diane Abbott and councillor Kumar Murshid, a close ally of Livingstone.[5] It had active local groups in Birmingham, Coventry, Lewisham, Manchester and Sheffield.[6]
NAAR merged with the Anti-Nazi League[7] into the Socialist Workers Party (UK)-led Unite Against Fascism (UAF) in 2003,[8] Jasper joining UAF's first steering committee and NAAR's Sabby Dhalu acting as joint secretary with SWP/ANL's Weyman Bennett.[9]
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- ↑ Martin Bright "Secret sect giving PSC mask of respectability" Jewish Chronicle 19 September 2009
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Further reading
- "National Assembly Against Racism" in Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- Movement for Justice "The Trouble with NAAR", November 1997