Photo: Ciaran Elliott
Shabbir Lakha contextualises the rise of Islamophobia, the resurgence of the far right, and the kind of movement we need to stop them at Counterfire’s Revolution! weekender
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Shabbir Lakha
Shabbir Lakha is a Stop the War officer, a People's Assembly activist and a member of Counterfire.
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