The ARA organised campaigns locally and nationally against racist murders, attacks and harassment[6] and rented offices in Lloyd Baker Street at Clerkenwell, London, from Islington council.
Some Socialist Action members were put on the executive committee because of their campaigning abilities, including Redmond O'Neill and others later appointed advisers to Livingstone when he was Mayor of London.
The same year, Wadsworth introduced the parents to another South African Nobel Peace Prize winner Archbishop Desmond Tutu, whom he had persuaded to attend a march in Norbury, Croydon, with them against the murder of Afghan migrant Ruhullah Aramesh.
On 23 September 1994[citation needed] the ARA issued a statement claiming that "Ken Livingstone, supported by a faction called Socialist Action and a handful of unprincipled and unrepresentative members of the executive committee, has been waging a relentless campaign to sack [Wadsworth] the national secretary.
"[14] On 30 September 1994 Livingstone went to the High Court to determine voting rights for the delegates to the ARA's forthcoming annual meeting and an out-of-court settlement was reached.
[15] By February 1995 the breakaway National Assembly Against Racism (NAAR), had been established, largely by three members of Socialist Action, O'Neill, Jude Woodward, and Anne Kane.
The Anti-Racist Alliance Trust (ARATrust), a registered charity whose founder Tony O'Hara was an ARA activist locally, still exists in Harrow, north west London.
Its strategy was to focus on making a case for more robust legislation against racial harassment and racist propaganda, including the dog whistle type from right-wing government.