Our articles

All the articles we have published are listed below, from the most recent first:

• A Message of Unity from the Children of Abraham – published 19th December 2025
• Chanukah killings, Bondi Beach – published 16th December 2025
• Sandi Adams and antisemitism (again) – published 26th November 2025
• Save the Date – community counter-protest, Cheltenham, Saturday 13th December 2025 – published 25th November 2025.
• Save the Date – community counter-protest, Gloucester Sunday 2nd November 2025 – published 20th October 2025.
• “Whosoever destroys one soul, it is as if he had destroyed the entire world” – video and transcript of speech at Stroud Ceasefire Now Coalition vigil by Jeremy from The Stroud Read Band – published Saturday 11th October 2024.
• Humanity Not Hate – Community Counter-Protest – Sunday 5th Oct – Gloucester. Published 24th September 2025.
• Save the Date – Sunday Oct 5th – Gloucester Counter-Protest. Published 20th September 2025
• Standing with people seeking asylum! A report back from the August 30th counter-protest outside the Ibis hotel in Gloucester, and an invitation to join the ‘Gloucestershire Solidarity Network’ WhatsApp channel. Published 16th September 2025.
• For humanity – against division. In this 15 minute read, we talk about the organiser of a protest outside a hotel housing people seeking asylum in Gloucester and his history of violent racism, the domestic violence convictions of the rioters who attacked asylum hotels and people of colour last summer, the long history of racists and the far right pretending they care about “protecting women and girls” to push their vile ideas, and the need for support services and interventions to meaningfully end violence against women and a culture of patriarchy that makes abuse rife. Published 29th August 2025.
• Our Community United – oppose the far right in Gloucester. Key information and guidance for a counter-protest on Saturday 30th August 2025. Published 25th August 2025.
• Red Line for Gaza, advert for protest – published 14th August 2025
• Agenda 2030: Debunking Myths, Engaging With Real Critiques – published 3rd August 2025
• Follow-up from our “Against the Fascist Creep” meeting – published 22nd July 2025
• Follow-up from our Food, Farming and The Future meeting – published 22nd July 2025
• Don’t ban Palestine Action – our solidarity statement – 27th June 2025
• Food, Farming & The Future, advert for public meeting – 25th May 2025 (published 2nd May 2025)
• Stop the Fascist Creep, advert for Public Meeting 11th May (published 22nd April 2025)
• Jeremy Green’s speech on protests in Gaza and Israel at the Ceasefire Vigil (published 29th March 2025)
• Ceasefire Vigil speech by James Beecher for CSSD (published 15th March 2025)
• Who is hijacking fears about food and farming? Our Free Town – not what it might seem (published March 12th 2025)
• “Deportation is NOT a show, these are people’s lives” (published February 12th 2025)
• Opposing a far right ‘march’ in Cheltenham – report (published February 12th 2025)
• Oppose the far right in Cheltenham, Saturday 8th February (published February 7th 2025)
• Holocaust Memorial Day event 2025, Sunday January 26th 2-3pm (published January 24th 2025)
• More dodgy meetings from Project Libertas at the Old Convent (published October 13th 2024)
• We joined the “Love not Hate – Stop the Far Right” rally in Stroud (featuring video from the event. First published 19th August 2024)
• Join us at the Stop the Far Right protest in Stroud, 10th August 2024 (published 9th August 2024)
• Our letter to the Stroud News and Journal – in full (published 11th July 2024)
• Our letter to the people backing Nazi-sympathising candidate for MP (published 26th June 2024)
• Updated leaflet on transphobia and homophobia launched at Stroud Pride 2024 (published 22nd June 2024)
• Silent protest against “The Light” (published 3rd June 2024)
• The Light appoints Holocaust denier John Hamer as a regular contributor (published 28th May 2024)
• The Protocols of the Elders of Zion – what’s that? (published 26th May 2024)
• Think before you vote in the Police and Crime Commissioner elections (published 30th April 2024)
• Nazi meetings in Stroud – what? providing detail about the Nazi Meetings, the group that organised them, the planned speaker, and some background context (published 15th April 2024)
• Nazi Meetings Cancelled – Our Statement (published 26th March 2024)
• No to Nazis in Stroud (published 21st March 2024)
• Letter to the Stroud News and Journal on the protest before Katie Hopkins recent local performance (published 25th January 2024)
• Holocaust Memorial Day 2024 – Stroud Ceremony – 28th January (published 15th January 2024)
• Photos and Video from Whiteshill and Ruscombe Community Solidarity’s demonstration promoting inclusivity, anti-racism, and tolerance (published 12th January 2024)
• Help residents keep Whiteshill tolerant, loving, anti racist, and inclusive (published 6th January 2024)
• Take care what you share about the Israeli assault on Gaza (published 24th November 2023)
• We read Issue 39 ‘The Light’ so you don’t have to (published 23rd November 2023)
• Don’t let conspiracy influencers pull you into their hateful rabbit hole (published 11th November 2023)
• Ceasefire Now! (published 3rd November 2023)
• Speeches from our Public Meeting on 4th October 2023 (published 22nd October 2023)
• Press Release: Community Solidarity to hold Public Meeting in Stroud (published 2nd October 2023)
• Racism isn’t funny – video from our rally on 7th September 2023 (published 23rd September 2023)
• Public Meeting on 4th October: Conspiracy theories, the Far Right, and The Light (published 18th September 2023)
• Press Release: Community comes together to celebrate diversity and oppose Katie Hopkins’ “Comedy Show” in Stroud (published 6th September 2023)
• Racism isn’t funny – video from our rally on 7th September 2023 (published 23rd September 2023)
• Public Meeting on 4th October: Conspiracy theories, the Far Right, and The Light (published 18th September 2023)
• Press Release: Community comes together to celebrate diversity and oppose Katie Hopkins’ “Comedy Show” in Stroud (published 6th September 2023)
• Racism isn’t funny – join us in opposing Katie Hopkins’ “comedy show” in Stroud (published 5th September 2023)
• Yet more misinformation on climate in “The Light” (published 14th August 2023)
• Reclaiming space on the High St – report from our stall (published 13th August 2023)
• “The Light”: sending women back to the Dark Ages (published 26th July 2023)
• Fact-checking the June 2023 front page of “The Light” (published 16th July 2023
• We read it so you don’t have to: Issue 34 of “The Light” (published 12th July 2023)
• Ripping up “The Light” (published 10th July 2023)
• The Far Right in The Light (published on 6th July 2023)
• Things “The Light” Wants You to Dislike (published on 20th April 2023)
• Mama’s War – remembering victims of the war in Bosnia (published on April 6th, the date generally acknowledged as the start of the way in 1992)
• A piece on the Candlelit vigil in memory of Brianna Ghey (held by Stroud Pride on 26th February 2023)
• Sandi Adams and antisemitism (why she should never have been invited to speak in Stroud, published February 5th 2023)
• Marking Holocaust Memorial Day in Stroud on 29th January 2023 (published January 27th 2023)
• Challenging denial, disinformation and stigma on World AIDS day (December 1st 2022)
• Transgender Day of Remembrance (Nov 20th 2022)
• Our approach (Oct 23rd 2022)
• Open Letter – please withdraw the invitation to James Delingpole to speak in Stroud (Oct 17th 2022)
• Letters to the Stroud News and Journal, 12/10/22 (responding to a letter by Richard House the week before on topics of facilitated dialogue and climate denial, quoted on our website October 15th 2022)
• Protest against ‘The Light’ paper as its editor speaks in Stroud (featuring video of our banner protest on Thursday 29th September. Post published on October 6th 2022)
• Our offer of a facilitated discussion (October 3rd 2022)
• Consistent denial of climate change in The Light (July 25th 2022)
• Remember the Beacon? Still a Gateway to extreme right wing ideas (June 8th 2022)
• Using our freedom of speech to criticise ‘The Light’ – CSSD statement (May 30th 2022)
• How ‘The Light’ promotes transphobia and homophobia (May 30th 2022)
• How have local people responded since we started to raise our concerns about distribution of The Light ‘newspaper’ in Stroud district? (May 17th 2022)
• Why are people in Stroud handing out a paper that defends Holocaust denial and antisemitism? (May 17th 2022. Originally published by Amplify Stroud on 29th January 2022)