In Leeds - Saturday 14 March 2009

Yorkshire & the Humber Unite Against Fascism conference Saturday March 14th.

"Unite to stop the BNP and fascism in Europe."

Swarthmore Centre, near Park Lane College Leeds 10am-1pm.

Speakers include: Linda McAvan MEP

Gloria Mills UNISON national officer & ex President TUC - invited

Bill Adams Yorkshire & the Humber TUC regional secretary

Bev Miller Chair UNISON Black Members Committee

Abdul Gooljar Islamic Society of Britain

Paul Clays CWU regional secretary

Ian Stevenson NUT regional secretary

Fiona Edwards Women's Officer Sheffield University Student Union

Lee Billingham Love Music Hate Racism

Sabby Dhalu & Weyman Bennett UAF joint national secretaries

Chair: John Campbell Yorkshire and the Humber UAF

UAF NATIONAL CONFERENCE 21st February 2009

TUC Conference Centre, Congress House, Great Russell Street, London WC1 - 9:30am-4:30pm.

Register now to secure your place.

Speakers include: Ken Livingstone, Glyn Ford MEP, Edie Freidman JCORE, Dr Abdul Bari MCB, Billy Hayes CWU, John McClure - Reverend and the makers, Get Cape Wear Cape Fly, Peter Hain MP, Weyman Bennett UAF, Sabby Dhalu UAF & NAAR, Martin Smith - Love Music Hate Rascism. Frances O'Grady -Deputy General Secretary TUC, Mark Serwotka - General Secretary PCS, Megan Dobney SERTUC, Wes Streeting NUS, Ennio Odino - Italian Partisan and survivor of Mauthausen concentration camp.

Last year’s Unite Against Fascism conference was extremely successful with over 500 people attending the event. This year’s conference will be an important event that will enable discussion on strategies that have been successful in defeating fascism and help us organise activity across the country to stop the BNP in these elections. There will be a number of practical workshop sessions dealing with ways of opposing fascists in the workplace and wider communities.

The conference will bring together sections of society that oppose fascism including trade unions, student unions, Muslim, Jewish, Christian and other faiths, black, Asian, lesbian, gay and disabled communities, we urge you to attend.

Tickets will cost £20 for Organisation delegates, £10 for inviduals, Student/Unwaged £5.

You can register online on the national website , by phone, post and email. For further information or to request registration forms please contact UAF on 0207 833 4916 or unite@ucu.org.uk