UCU: On racism and xenophobia

Motion

Motion text: Congress deplores:
The recent rise in racism and xenophobia and its apparent promotion by government policies. Increasingly restrictive measures, and the xenophobic language surrounding them, employed in discussion of immigration and the so-called 'war on terror', combined with islamophobia and the attempts at increased surveillance of muslim communities, are not only encouraging racist and xenophobic tendencies in Britain but are also leading to measures that threaten civil liberties as a whole.

Congress resolves:
To resist attempts by government to engage colleges and universities in activities which amount to increased surveillance of Muslim or other minority students and to the use of members of staff for such witch-hunts.
To mount active campaigns against all attacks on civil liberties and to argue for the benefits of a plural society