ACTIVISTS called yesterday for a total ban on disgusting measures meant to deter homeless people from sleeping in certain spots.

It comes after several Tesco branches were forced to remove “anti-homeless” spikes from near their doorways.

Say No to Spikes campaigners will join the massive People’s Assembly march and rally in London on Saturday, racheting up the pressure on companies and councils who dare to use similar devices.

More than 700 people will assemble at Tesco’s Piccadilly Circus branch at 11am on Saturday June 21 before joining the main march.

It will be led by photojournalist Joshua Preston, who exposed the hostile spikes outside the supermarket in 2013.

“We’ve successfully won the first battle in the war on ‘anti-homeless’ spikes,” he said yesterday.

“We need to continue putting the pressure on to remind corporations and councils that ‘anti-homeless’ spikes are not the answer to the UK’s 62 per cent rise in homelessness.”

Earlier this month outrage erupted after similar contraptions were pictured at the lobby entrance of a block of flats in Southwark, London.

“It’s apparent we’ve already started a movement with news coming in of spikes being ripped up in all parts of the country.

“Let’s continue to put the pressure on and demand a ban,” Mr Preston said.

People’s Assembly national secretary Sam Fairbairn said the spikes showed how uninterested the Con-Dem coalition and multinational firms were in plight of society’s most vulnerable.

He said: “This government can’t even build the homes people need in what is supposed to be the world’s sixth-largest economy.”