It is hard to believe that a year has passed since the heartbreaking loss of our beloved friend and comrade Sarbjit Johal, who passed away peacefully on the morning of Wednesday 9th October 2024 at the age of 62, after a long battle with cancer. During this year marked by the horrifying escalation of the

As organisations representing South Asian, Black, migrant, and refugee communities and those fighting racism, we are horrified and enraged by the attack on Tuesday 9 September on a Sikh woman in Oldbury, Sandwell, in what police are describing as a racially motivated attack. The 20 year-old woman was raped and viciously beaten in broad daylight by

Friends, thank you for gathering here today. We are here, in Gordon Square, at the statue of Rabindranath Tagore, a poet, philosopher, and anti-colonial visionary, remembering his words: “I will never allow chauvinism to triumph over humanity for as long as I live.” We stand here not simply to mark the 78th anniversaries of India’s