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Youth against Racism in Europe

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Youth against Racism in Europe (YRE) is a campaigning international youth organisation, active in 16 countries in Europe. YRE was launched by an international demonstration of 40,000 people against racism, in Brussels in October 1992.[1]

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It was a wave of racist attacks in Germany and the success of the Blokbuster Belgian youth movement, opposing the far-right Wikipedia:Vlaams Blok, which convinced the Wikipedia:Committee for a Workers' International, to work to launch an international youth organization along the same lines.

In 1994, YRE organised an anti-racist camp in Germany of 1,500 young people from all over Europe.

Britain[edit]

In Britain, YRE's activity has focused around opposition to the Wikipedia:British National Party. In 1987 the BNP moved its headquarters to Wikipedia:Welling, in south east London. In the next six years there were four racially motivated murders in the town, including that of Stephen Lawrence in April 1993. The following month, on a demonstration called by YRE and others, including Panther, the black socialist organisation, over 8,000 people marched past the BNP headquarters in protest at the murders and the far-right party's presence in the area.[2] Subsequent larger demonstrations were called, co-organised by YRE, numbering 60,000 and 50,000 respectively, forming part of a successful campaign to shut down the BNP headquarters.

In the early 1990s, the YRE functioned as an early warning system for communities when British National Party groups were intimidating them.[3]

France[edit]

YRE launched in France in 1993, with a tour by a British Panther activist based around the recently released Malcolm X film. YRE gained considerable popularity amongst French youth through notable campaigns in defense of immigrants without working papers and the rights of girls wearing the Wikipedia:hijab in Wikipedia:Mantes-la-Jolie. YRE's participation in an anti-deportation campaign whose goal was to mobilize the passengers of flights departing from Roissy-Charles-de-Gaulle airport against deportations, earned the organisation the ire of the Minister of the Interior of the time, Wikipedia:Jean-Pierre Chevènement.

References[edit]

  1. ↑ http://www.yre.org.uk/about.html
  2. ↑ http://www.socialistparty.org.uk/campaign/Anti-racism/YRE/13470
  3. ↑ http://www.paltelegraph.com/world/uk-news/10077-edl-kept-out-of-tower-hamlets-by-thousands-protesting.html "The Mayor could have helped communities to organise estate-based contact networks to sound the alarm if any EDL supporters came near, so that residents could defend themselves.
    This was the strategy pursued by the Socialist Party (then known as Militant Labour) and Youth Against Racism in Europe in the early 1990s when the British National Party were intimidating local people.    " EDL kept out of Tower Hamlets by thousands protesting, 06 September 2011, Paula Mitchell, Socialist Party of Britain, The Palestine Telegraph

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