[1] Meetings to establish the Southall Monitoring group began in December 1981, after the racist murder of Gurdip Singh Chaggar in 1976, the police killing of Blair Peach in 1979, and confrontation between skinheads and local young people in summer 1979.
[2] The group joined with the Awaaz Network to demonstrate against the visit of Narendra Modi to the UK in November 2015.
[7][8] They have supported the mother of Christopher Kapessa in her complaint against South Wales Police's inaction after her 13-year-old son's death.
[12] The group participated in Black Lives Matter demonstrations in 2020,[13] and supported a teenager injured by far right protestors, who was then stopped and searched by a Metropolitan Police officer whom he had asked for help.
[14] In August 2020 the Monitoring Group criticised the appointment of Tony Sewell, who had earlier minimised the effect of institutional racism, to chair a new Government Commission tasked with looking into racial inequality.