IWW Brewery Workers Union is calling for a boycott of Black Country Ales and The Wellington (Bennets Hill) in Birmingham. Birmingham Antifascists, and workers at The Wellington have already expressed opposition to Reform UK and the New Culture Forum meeting there, and we stand in Solidarity with them, and stand unequivocally against far right groups being platformed by pubs.
Reform UK are the biggest far right party in the UK, pushing anti-migrant, anti trans views, which divide the working class and threaten the most vulnerable people in society.
The New Culture Forum, is an organisation pushing far right conspiracy theories in the media, and giving support to the recent racist riots against migrants housed in hotels.
Wellington Publican Nigel Barker, and Black Country Ales have not taken those concerns seriously, and refused to cancel the meetings, despite the fact that Reform UK supporters have assaulted anti-fascist protesters outside the venue.
Our Pubs should be community spaces for all, not spaces used to build racist movements and spread lies. Anti-racists in the Real Ale/Craft Beer community should withdraw their products/custom from these Pubs until they kick the far right out!
Forward your concerns to – enquiries [at] blackcountryales [dot] co [dot] uk and tell them that racists have no place win our pubs!
