World Against Racism and Fascism (WARAF) is an international network of broad movements, in many different countries, that mobilise against racism and the far-right.
One central activity is coordinating international actions, especially the mobilisations each year around UN Antiracism Day, when typically there are protests in 50 or more cities around the world.
More generally the network allows movements in different countries to share experiences and information, with the objective of strengthening our struggles on the ground.
WARAF has its origins in an international meeting called in Athens by KEERFA, the Movement Against Racism and the Fascist Threat in Greece, in October 2013. This meeting issued a call for coordinated demonstrations around UN Antiracism Day in 2014.
The UN Day itself is 21 March, commemorating the Sharpeville massacre in South Africa on that date in 1960, but the call was for the nearest Saturday, in that case 22 March 2014. Since then, this annual international mobilisation has continued and grown, and the communication and networking have gradually developed between the movements involved.
An international coordinating meeting in London, organised in October 2018 by the broad movement in Great Britain, Stand Up To Racism, agreed to set up the WARAF network.
WARAF was initiated by movements in Europe, and these are still a central part of the network. However, over time, the problems of racism and the far right have grown within countries across the global south, meaning that this struggle is increasingly necessary on a world scale. Movements from all five continents are now involved in WARAF.
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