About us

We are the Muslim Social Justice Initiative (MSJI) — a youth-led, grassroots collective of Black and Global Majority Muslims in Manchester.

COLLECTIVE POWER

We exist because the world we live in is designed to erase, exclude, and criminalise us.

Islam and being Muslim have been racialised in the UK, leading to policing, surveillance, state violence, and community harm.

In response, we build our own spaces beyond the institutions that do not serve us, centring those most marginalised among us.

We are building alternative futures.

We are building alternative futures.

Our work

📢 We build spaces of political education, cultural resistance and community care — spaces that centre joy, healing and justice.

📢 We centre those most targeted by empire and oppression, knowing that liberation must be collective or it is not liberation at all.

📢 We work in solidarity with grassroots movements across the UK and the Global South, because our struggles are shared, and our futures are intertwined.

📢 Through our publishing, we produce and circulate Muslim political writing that strengthens a culture oriented towards liberation.

Since 2023, we’ve built powerful community spaces of resistance that strengthen collective power and solidarity.