
26 October 2024 8:00am–6:00pm
Stop The Far Right – Stand Up To Racism
National Demonstration
Sat 26 Oct
Central London (more details to come)
National demonstration Saturday 26 October
Tommy Robinson is coming to London with a hate march to spread his racism and Islamophobia. Robinson is a fascist who founded the English Defence League.
In July, he marched with 20,000 others, chanting Islamophobic and racist chants. The following week saw far right riots across the country. Following the racist attacks earlier this summer, nazi Tommy Robinson (real name Stephen Yaxley-Lennon) has announced that he wants to march with his far right and nazi supporters through central London to Downing Street on Saturday 26 Oct. He wants to try to counter the huge mobilisations against racist attacks that we held up and down the country, and that many of you went on.
This is a huge challenge – he believes he can get 30-40,000 people to march with him, and listen to him scapegoating refugees and asylum seekers, trying to make racism acceptable.
Stand Up to Racism has called a unity demonstration against Robinson to show that we will not let the far right take over our streets. Our message is clear: stop the far right, unity over division.
UNISON is asking every trade union, faith group, campaign, anti- racist and the thousands who pushed back the far right in August to join our demonstration on 26 October. We are the many, they are the few. Together we can stop the far right.
A trade union’s role is to unite people, and to take a principled stand against those who divide us, particularly by racist scapegoating. Therefore, Camden UNISON will be joining this demonstration against the nazis and far right, organised by Stand Up To Racism and supported by the TUC and every major union, and we’re asking as many of you to come on the demonstration with us and march with the Camden UNISON banner.
Our aim is to again outnumber, and therefore demoralise, the nazis and make it harder for them to organise. Please save the date and come along.
