Gender, religion and the rise of the far right in the UK
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4:00 pm to 5:30 pm
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- Online
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- Webinar
About this event
Dive into how gender and faith are shaking up UK politics with the rise of the far right in this eye-opening webinar.
The forthcoming local elections in May 2026 are taking place in a unique historical context. In September 2025, the far right organised the largest demonstration in living memory, building on a steady process of mainstreaming far-right and anti-migrant authoritarianism in political parties as well as in the mainstream and social media.
At the same time, the anti-racist mobilisation's shift from multi-culturalism to ‘multi-faithism’ has weakened solidaristic identities and created space for communal political mobilisation based on religious identities.
This webinar will address the following questions:
- What are the interconnections between the white supremacist far right and the authoritarian religious groupings in racially minoritised communities?
- Why is the social control of women so central to the politics of different forms of right wing authoritarianism?
- How do we organise a Feminist, Left and Antiracist response to these developments?
This webinar is delivered by Feminist Dissent in collaboration with SOAS Library.
About the speakers
Louise Raw is a historian, writer, Antifascist and mum. Author of Striking a Light (Bloomsbury), Raw is also a BBC London contributor, Portobello Radio presenter and is the founder of Survivors against Fascism.
Subir Sinha is Director of the South Asia Institute at SOAS and co-author of the Leicester Inquiry Report on inter-community violence.
Stephen Cowden is Senior Lecturer in Social Work at the University of Gloucestershire and Gurnam Singh is Professor of Sociology, University of Warwick. Stephen and Gurnam have written about the rise of the far right and the challenges this poses for Antiracism.
Rosie Lewis is Co Director of Project Resist and has decades of advocacy and movement-building experience with black and minoritised women, children, and young survivors of violence and abuse.
