On 30 October 2025, we came together at Here to Stay, Here to Fight to launch the Anti-Racist Movement (ARM) alongside Black Lives Matter UK, Right to Remain and Mashlaha. Here’s why it matters.
Across the UK, we are building a growing, interconnected network of anti-racists: migrants, trade unionists and community organisers rooted in shared struggle. Our movement starts from a simple truth that racism cannot be dismantled in isolation. Class, race, gender, disability, religion and sexuality are interlinked, and so is our resistance. Through transformational organising, we are turning shared pain into shared power and isolation into solidarity.
ARM is organising to create a radically democratic, multicultural society free from racial oppression and exploitation, where all people are able to fulfill their potential and while able to live within their multiple identities without fear. Hundreds of people attended the launch in London and many more participating at virtual watch parties in Kendall, Cumbria, Folkestone and elsewhere across the country. You can watch a recording of the launch here.
The rise of the far right in Britain is not an accident. It is the result of a failing, racist economy that deepens inequality and then diverts anger away from those responsible, towards migrants and communities of colour. We know that austerity and state abandonment fracture solidarity and make authoritarianism seem inevitable, but it is not inevitable.
Since October, the local groups have been formed and have organised their first meetings. Local ARM groups will organise to provide material relief and improvement from structural violence, rebuild solidarity through infrastructures of care in working-class communities and organise around local issues to build the world we want to win.
Migrants Organise continues to work alongside coalition partners (BLM, Right to Remain and Mahslaha) to provide strategic and infrastructural support to newly founded local ARM groups who will undertake the necessary work of building relational power in their communities.
We believe that this moment requires all of us to show up beyond the mobilisations and invest in long-term transformative organising in our communities.
If you would like to join your local ARM Group, please fill in the form here.
Find out more about ARM: https://www.antiracistmovement.org
