Red Roots Collective

Red Roots Collective Anti-capitalist, ecofeminist collective promoting international solidarity

09/04/2026

Scene from emergency demo in Manchester for Iran (april 8th), Lebanon, Sudan and Palestine…let’s be clear : Resistance thrives in Solidarity so we need to organise, mobilise, and intensify our solidarity and rally around the resistance in response to heinous crimes committed against peoples of West Asia.

•The US bases out of everywhere•
•Shut down UK Bases now•
•UAE and Gulf client states out of Sudan and Yemen•
•Settlers/Zionists out of Palestine•
•Hands of Lebanon •
•Say NO to imperialist sanctions imposed on Iran•

🔻!Long live our regional resistance, unity, and shared struggle for sovereignty and self-determination!🔻

We’re inspired by our comrades in Iran who provided the clearest direction possible for us: not to be divided by differences, and to be explicit, inclusive, and consistent against imperialist war on Iran and genocide in Gaza! To hold Palestinian resistance as our compass and to resist demonisation of Iran by Zionist-imperialist thugs and their hybrid wars!

We’re grateful to have the solidarity of our comrades who stood unwaveringly with Iran, and showed their support for anti-war cause, especially from:

.f.f.p and comrades in who showed incredible support, community defence, and care in the most difficult hours our homeland, friends and families faced in Iran while we faced fascist-zionists marches of hate and self-destruction here in Manchester!

Down with Zionism
Down with imperialism
Rally around the Resistance…until Liberation!

JOIN US IN MANCHESTER EMERGENCY DEMO FOR IRAN, WEDNESDAY APRIL THE 8TH, ST PERER’s SQUARE, 6PM. US imperialism, alongsid...
07/04/2026

JOIN US IN MANCHESTER EMERGENCY DEMO FOR IRAN, WEDNESDAY APRIL THE 8TH, ST PERER’s SQUARE, 6PM.

US imperialism, alongside the genocidal Zionist regime, has set its sights on destroying Iran’s civilisation.
Popular resistance in Iran has, with incredible courage, organised human chains around the country’s vital infrastructure.
The voice and call of our comrades from Iran is clearer than ever: do not leave the streets empty! Be the voice of Iranians! Despite death and destruction, we in Iran have no option of despair or of being divided by differences. Build the anti-war movement today wherever you are.
The fate of Iran and Palestine is intertwined. Stand united in defence of sovereignty and self-determination for West Asia, and put an end to the war crimes and genocide of Zionist-imperialist aggressors.
The time for resistance is now.

31/03/2026

From our statements:
a message from Iran, by a comrade, a teacher and community organiser, addressing us at this demonstration :
“Last winter, we heard that an infant in Gaza went into cardiac arrest due to the cold. We felt that suffering was distant from us. Until a few nights ago, when Tiara Sadeghi, in an airstrike on city of Yazd, lost her small heart to the powerful shockwaves of an explosion.
We asked ourselves: what does it mean for a child’s heart to stop? And we remembered the children of Gaza.
Our children too, like the children of Gaza, were killed in schools. In the very first moments of the war alone, two hundred children were torn apart, and parts of their bodies were found far from the site of the explosion. The dismembered body of their teacher was never found. And from those very first moments, these crimes were sold to the world under the name of “human shields.” […]
We are bewildered that Eurocentric values and the security order of the West have become so normalised among some activists that anti-war cries and support for the defence of one’s homeland cannot rise loudly enough. And yet, we know the histories of Libya, Iraq, and Syria. Do we not?
We know that speaking of our suffering, alliances, and our struggles is untranslatable, within the western human rights frameworks! that’s how we know that Palestine is our political home. Gaza was not an exception; all indigenous and oppressed nations who dreamed of building a new order in their lands have understood this well.
Comrades! Imperialist lies are a body of knowledge, theory, and practice built upon killing—exposing this, especially in these times, is a revolutionary act.
Build the anti-war movement in your environment!
We in Iran do not have the choice of hopelessness or being distracted by differences!
So we need a solidarity that recognises the urgency and the existential significance of this violence.

Long live the resistance in Palestine, Lebanon, Sudan and Iran”

30/03/2026

Our Palestinian comrade speaking at Manchester’s emergency demo against the imperialist war on Iran. Sunday 29..03.2026
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«الشمس تأكل لحمهم لكنهم يعاندون الشمس
من بطون الأرض يطلعون من عيون الشمس
يطلعون من وجه القمر إنهم جنوبيون
يزرعون الحبّ والسنابل والتبغ والرصاص
و يكدحون فقراء يكدحون فليلهم طويل ودربهم طويل
لكن في عيونهم ألف انتقام
وألف الف لعنة على الكلاب الفاجرة
متآمرة هذه الكلاب الفاجرة ..
يعانقون الرفش والمعاول وأخمص الخلاص
ويزحفون للحقل يزحفون
فحقلهم يموت وزهرهم يموت
لكن في دمائهم لون الحياة إنهم جنوبيون»
-احمد قعبور

🚩 EMERGENCY DEMO - HANDS OFF IRAN - 12PM SUN 29/03 - [Adnan Al-Bursh Park: M13 9PL]✊🇵🇸 🇱🇧 Long live Palestine, Lebanon a...
25/03/2026

🚩 EMERGENCY DEMO - HANDS OFF IRAN - 12PM SUN 29/03 - [Adnan Al-Bursh Park: M13 9PL]✊

🇵🇸 🇱🇧 Long live Palestine, Lebanon and Sudan! 🇸🇩 🚩
Red Roots Collective and international allies call on people of conscience across Manchester to rise-up against the enemy: imperialism.
The USA and Zionist entity have expanded their imperialist aggression. Not satisfied with perpetrating the ongoing genocide against the Palestinian people, they have begun to ethnically cleanse Lebanon whilst waging a war of imperialist aggression against Iran and our people that, with the same genocidal logic, targets schools, hospitals and homes. The US does this to assert its power on a global stage whilst the Zionist entity does it to expand its territory in the region. The UK government follows the US, desperate to be seen as an ally of genocidal imperialists.
Starmer welcomes the US military planes at British airbases whilst trying to hide these crimes from the public. Our taxes support this aggression and our government continues to sell arms to the Zionist entity.
These imperialists are the enemy of freedom and we live in the belly of the imperialist beast. We must fight it from within!
From the bombing and sanctions of Iran and Venezuela to the blockade on Cuba to the genocides in Palestine, Sudan and the Congo, imperialism casts its long and dark shadow over today.
Together we rise up and say FROM THE BELLY OF THE BEAST: HANDS OFF IRAN! FREE PALESTINE! LONG LIVE CUBA, CONGO, LEBANON, SUDAN, VENEZUELA! THE FREE PEOPLE OF THE WORLD RISE UP!
Join us to march against genocide, against imperialism, against war, genocide, and criminal regime of siege, sanction, and blockade imposed on the global south!

Excerpt from our statement:Amongst the complicits and partners of crimes, we recognise the spineless UK’s prime minister...
12/03/2026

Excerpt from our statement:
Amongst the complicits and partners of crimes, we recognise the spineless UK’s prime minister who shamelessly announced the deployment of further fighter jets and killing machines to participate in the catastrophic bloodshed against our homeland. The UK is directly involved in these war crimes and it’s on us to fight against the injustice done by this imperial regime.
We demand investigation into the criminal nature of the military campaign against our country and the illegal participation of the UK’s government ! 

No matter how critical of the Iranian state (and the domestic oppression) one is, “israel” and the US terrorists have no right to kill any Iranian, in any position, on our soil. So we are enraged and seek justice and revenge for our people and our sovereignty!
We are an independent, socialist-feminist Iranian voice against the single biggest threat to humanity and peace which is the axis of empire and its most criminal elements, Israel and the US— currently in a destructive campaign against our homeland. Women in Iran in particular marginalised communities who have been resisting patriarchy and oppression for many years now see their future and autonomy more violated than ever. 

We refuse any narrative that divides our people into good and bad casualties, we refuse any justification for the killing of those who are defending Iran against this bloody assault. And We refuse the normalisation of this colonial aggression and interference unequevocally.
 The aggressors’ only agenda is to kill as many indigenous people as they can so that the theft of peoples’ resources becomes easier, our primary enemy, therefore, is the demonically religious ideology of Zionism and Imperialism.

Context: The views shared here were expressed by our comrades in Iran in the first hours after they regained access to t...
26/01/2026

Context: The views shared here were expressed by our comrades in Iran in the first hours after they regained access to the internet (from different cities). They want our allies to hear them.
Please read with care and share if you can.

Statement:
Red roots collective condemns the brutal repression and massacre of Iranian protesters, and expresses deep concern for the wellbeing of the thousands arrested during these protests—many of them teenagers and children—for which responsibility lies solely with the Islamic Republic.

We firmly reject imperialist sanctions and condemn the threats of war against Iran.
We continue to echo the voices of liberation, resistance, and independence from Iran, and we call on our allies abroad to echo their solidarity with our comrades inside the country—who are enduring shock, trauma, and mourning.

Manchester stands united and determined in solidarity with migrants against the hostile and inhumane changes put forward...
23/11/2025

Manchester stands united and determined in solidarity with migrants against the hostile and inhumane changes put forward by the reactionary Labour government. When our friends are under attack, we stand up and fight back. Together, we can and must reject the politics of hatred, division, and blame proposed by the UK government.
From standing with unhoused migrants to recognising the challenges faced by those newly arrived in this country with the hope to rebuild their lives, we are here to welcome our friends and to protect our collective rights and well-being. An injury to one is an injury to all.
The government’s proposed changes are unacceptable violations of human dignity and must be stopped by our increasing awareness, readiness and collective action.
[translations in comment section]

Join us to put an end on the Zionist genocide and war crimes in Palestine and Iran.Meeting point: Plattfield park. M14 ...
20/06/2025

Join us to put an end on the Zionist genocide and war crimes in Palestine and Iran.
Meeting point: Plattfield park. M14 5 LL. Manchester, Sunday 22nd. 13:00.

The zionist regime has waged another brutal war, this time against people of Iran. Leading to an unprecedented level of aggression and crisis in the middle east and beyond.
Western states are complicit in the crimes of Zionists against Iran and Palestine. The rhetoric of ‘Self-Defence’ for a settler-colonial project must stop immediately. Participation of the UK state in massive waves of war crime must be stopped now.

Iran, Palestine and the whole global majority have the right to defend themselves against colonialism and destabilisation.

Palestine has the right to statehood, Iran has the right to sovereignty without foreign intervention.
This is the core of international justice, this is the core of peoples’ demand all over the world.

Join us in demonstration against war and in grassroots solidarity with the resistance in Palestine and Iran and in our quest for liberation, autonomy and justice.

Stop the genocide in Gaza. Stop the war crimes in . End the occupation now. Long Live 🇵🇸

Join us at the Onion (cinema room) for community film screening- Agnès Varda’s visual essay of individual and collective...
05/02/2025

Join us at the Onion (cinema room) for community film screening- Agnès Varda’s visual essay of individual and collective efforts to tackle both hunger and excess food in France...
made with poetry and enchantment.

Saturday Feb 8th.
4:30 pm —6:30 pm
Community meal by Onion’s kitchen 🍲🧅
The Onion’s address:
🏡the old Sure Start Children’s Centre around 35 Slade Ln, Levenshulme, Manchester M13 0QJ.
[1 minute walk from the Kashco on Slade Lane.]
To get in, if the gate is closed, call reception on:
📲 07835459590

To check the accessibility info see onion’s insta page:
The Onion is wheelchair accessible
Masks and hand sanitisers are available at the reception
Onion is a sober-led autonomous social centre run by the communities for the communities!
If you have any allergy let us/reception/kitchen know…
🎞️✨🌾🧅🍲🍿🌅

🌴Join hands for Education and Liberation!🪴✏️🪡🌴Save the date: Sunday 2nd of February; 4:30 pmAt the new radical social ce...
22/01/2025

🌴Join hands for Education and Liberation!🪴✏️🪡🌴
Save the date: Sunday 2nd of February; 4:30 pm
At the new radical social centre:
At the old Sure Start Nursery around 35 Slade Ln, Levenshulme, Manchester M13 0QJ [1 minute walk from the Kashco on Slade Lane].
Onion’s reception mobile phone : 07835459590
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Red roots and will join hands again to run an interactive programme on the education of the oppressed, presenting early works of Paulo Freire in adult literacy as a tool of resistance and liberation (short documentary film), as well as telling the stories of autonomous community-schools in extremely marginalised communities in Iran, which use education as part of their feminist intergenerational struggle, embracing undocumented children and their mothers and carers in a beautiful but hard journey, against oblivion and ongoing repression!

We’ll love to hear from your experiences too in bringing education and liberation back together!

You can also send your messages and your solidarity donation to our sisters who run these community schools led by indigenous educators and warriors, by spending time at our embroidery stall showcasing the native art of Baloch women and their creativity towards autonomy and solidarity!
You can buy the beautiful bracelets, neckless, etc and help their resistance-through-education!!

We’ll serve Iranian food (vegan)!

See you there at the onion!
🧅🌴🔥🪡✏️🎬🍲

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