BRITAIN’S anti-racist majority should stand up and be counted this weekend, National Education Union leader Daniel Kebede urges.

Calling for a huge turnout at the Stand Up to Racism counter-demonstration called this Saturday to oppose a march due to be led by “Tommy Robinson,” Mr Kebede said: “I will be mobilising as many members as I can. This is an issue for teachers — young children, children of migrants are feeling incredibly vulnerable at the moment.

“Racism is a trade union issue — it’s fundamentally about dividing black workers and white workers to keep everyone down. I’m concerned that if we don’t have big enough mobilisations against the far right, they grow in confidence — and Britain ends up feeling like a tinderbox.”

Mr Kebede said Reform UK’s lead in the polls was extremely dangerous.

“I think [Reform leader] Nigel Farage is Tommy Robinson’s megaphone in Parliament,” he told the Morning Star. “He puts forward the same narrative that Robinson does on the streets.

“John McDonnell is absolutely correct to call Reform a proto-fascist organisation — that doesn’t mean it is a fascist organisation now, but it has all the ingredients that could lead it to become one. The stakes are really high.”

Protests outside hotels housing asylum-seekers were “organised by a fascist core,” he warned.

“Not everyone who’s attending those is fascist or racist though. We have to be really clear in our messaging. Sexual violence has no race or religion: we want justice for the survivors of abuse, we mustn’t let racists divide us.”

Stand Up to Racism (SUTR) co-convener Sabby Dhalu said racists were enabled to present themselves as a majority when they aren’t because of a failure to challenge them politically.

“The racist minority is very vocal, and politically we have a problem because Labour should be the natural home of anti-racists but at the moment they’re conceding to the racist narrative.”

Her co-convener Weyman Bennett said the far right don’t outnumber the left — but they are better organised.

“We have to come together and unite against the far right, whatever our other differences,” he insisted, calling on all unions to back Saturday’s march.

The March Against Fascism — Unite v Tommy Robinson demonstration begins at noon on Saturday from Russell Square in central London.