Uyghur Solidarity Campaign lol

Solidarity with the Uyghurs

from Momentum & Open Labour candidates

We are candidates in the Momentum and Open Labour elections, standing in solidarity with the Uyghur people’s battle against their repression by the Chinese state.

The Uyghurs, a majority-Muslim people who mostly live in East Turkestan (ruled by China as “Xinjiang”), are being subjected to state persecution on an historic scale. This includes:

  • mass internment of likely more than a million people in concentration camps, with reports of torture, abuse and rape;

  • a regime of suffocating surveillance from public spaces to the home;

  • mass separation of children from families;

  • monitoring and suppression of political dissent, Muslim religious practices, and Uyghur cultural expression;

  • forced labour re-education programmes in factories supplying dozens of global brands like Apple, Google and Nike.

As socialists, anti-racists and internationalists, we support the vote by Labour conference 2019 that committed our party to “stand proudly and unequivocally with the Uyghur people against oppression and persecution by the Chinese State” and “support and mobilise for protests and demonstrations in support”. As candidates, we pledge to push Labour, our campaign organisations and our unions into ongoing action on this issue.

To sign, candidates please email [email protected]

  • Ruth Cashman, Momentum NCG candidate

  • Steve Lapsley, Open Labour NC candidate

  • Abbie Clark, Momentum NCG candidate

  • Kas Witana, Momentum NCG candidate

  • Elaine Jones, Momentum NCG candidate

  • Amen Tesfay, Open Labour NC candidate

  • Gabe Milne, Open Labour NC candidate

  • Solma Ahmed, Momentum NCG candidate

  • Aaron Mark Daniels, Open Labour NC candidate

  • Ralph Berry, Open Labour NC candidate

  • Urte Macikene, Momentum NCG candidate

  • Kuba Stawiski, Open Labour NC candidate

  • Joseph Hamms, Open Labour NC candidate

  • Sacha Marten, Momentum NCG candidate

  • Mish Rahman, Momentum NCG candidate

  • Abi Barinski, Open Labour NC candidate

  • Panny Antoniou, Open Labour NC candidate

  • Alex Greer, Open Labour NC candidate

  • Anisha Faruk, Open Labour NC candidate

  • Charlotte Norton, Open Labour NC candidate

  • Chlöe Hopkins, Momentum NCG candidate

  • James Barber, Open Labour NC candidate

  • Lee Glover, Open Labour NC candidate

  • Logan Machell, Open Labour NC candidate

  • Mike Rowley, Open Labour NC candidate

  • Shamik Das, Open Labour NC candidate

  • Tessa Milligan, Open Labour NC candidate

  • Tom Laing, Open Labour NC candidate

  • Tom Miller, Open Labour NC candidate

  • Wrenna Robson, Open Labour NC candidate

  • Julie Ward, Open Labour NC candidate

  • Tyron Wilson, Open Labour NC candidate

  • Jordan Hartley, Momentum NCG candidate

  • Pablo John, Open Labour NC candidate

  • Amrita Rose, Open Labour NC candidate

  • Aydan Greatrick, Open Labour NC candidate

  • Henry Mendoza, Open Labour NC candidate

  • Ana Oppenheim, Momentum NCG candidate

  • Tracey Hylton, Momentum NCG candidate

  • Barrie Margetts, Momentum NCG candidate

  • Andy Young, Momentum NCG candidate

  • Gaya Sriskanthan, Momentum NCG candidate

  • Omar Salem, Open Labour NC candidate

  • Nadia Whittome, Momentum NCG candidate

  • Sonali Bhattacharyya, Momentum NCG candidate

This statement was organised by the Uyghur Solidarity Campaign UK, a workers' movement initiative supporting the Uyghur people's struggle for freedom. We organise protests and other solidarity action, and have the support of a growing number of trade union branches. We proposed the motion to campaign in for freedom for the Uyghurs which passed at Labour Party conference 2019. Please get in touch and get involved!

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