Anti-racism
Build the unity demonstration in London on Saturday 28 March
By Thomas Foster
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Tuesday 02 December 2025
Issue 2984
A Stand Up To Racism counter-demonstration in Epping (Picture: Guy Smallman)
A new alliance will take on the threat of the far right in Britain as it surges on the streets and in the polls.
The Together alliance launched on Tuesday—and has called a major unity demonstration in London on Saturday 28 March.
It brings together over 50 organisations “against the growing division fuelled by the far right”. They include the Palestine Solidarity Campaign and Friends of Al-Aqsa, two of the groups that have organised the national demonstrations against Israel’s genocide.
Bands Kneecap and Fontaines DC, musicians Paloma Faith and Charlotte Church, comedians Lenny Henry and Asim Chaudhry and actors Juliet Stevenson and Christopher Eccleston are among its backers.
Musician Leigh-Anne Pinnock, formerly of Little Mix, said, “I’m standing with Together to call out far right extremism and racism for what they are—dangerous and divisive. We have to protect our communities, defend our freedoms and stand up to hate together.”
Paloma Faith said she’s backing the alliance because “there is no world that I want to live in where discrimination is acceptable for anything”.
The Muslim Council of Britain, Friends of the Earth, Abortion Rights UK and many more organisations back the alliance.
The launch of Together comes at a time when the far right has gained momentum across Britain.
Where next for the anti-fascist movement in Britain?
Nazi Tommy Robinson mobilised over 100,000 of his supporters onto the streets of London on 13 September in the largest far right demonstration in British history.
Racist Reform UK is topping opinion polls and Nigel Farage has his sights set on Downing Street. And the two forces have supported violent and racist protests outside hotels housing refugees across Britain.
Stand Up To Racism (SUTR) has been at the heart of organising opposition to the fascists and far right—and was part of initiating the new alliance. It will continue to organise nationally and locally, mobilise counter-protests against the fascists and far right and say, “Refugees are welcome here.”
But the need to mobilise new forces against the far right is higher than ever. The Palestine solidarity movement and the hundreds of thousands looking for a left alternative to Labour are key to showing that anti-racists are the majority in Britain.
Debates in the movement: Racism, class and the fight against the far right
If the Green Party and Your Party threw their weight behind building 28 March, it would be huge.
The TUC union federation, the Unite, Unison, CWU, NEU, PCS, UCU and NUJ unions back the new alliance.
Education and health workers and others have organised anti-racist meetings in their workplaces in the wake of 13 September. Now is the time to deepen those networks and build 28 March in the unions.
Lewis Nielsen, SUTR anti-fascist officer, told Socialist Worker, “Together is launching to say enough is enough.
“It brings together the anti-fascist movement, the Palestine movement, trade unions and lots of other campaigns to say we’re going to put anti-racists on the front foot. We should go all out from now on to make 28 March massive.”
SUTR and its networks can work with other supporters of the alliance locally to build the unity demonstration on 28 March.
Organise a mobilising meeting and book transport to London before the Christmas holidays. Let’s make the racists afraid again.
