Demonstrators during an anti-racism protest organised by Stand Up to Racism, in George Square, Glasgow, August 10, 2024
THOUSANDS of members of the public, trade unionists and campaigners protested against racism and the far right in towns and cities across Britain at the weekend.
In the last two weeks Islamophobic and racist violence escalated across the country after the far right exploited the fatal stabbing of three young girls in Southport to incite riots.
But this weekend in London, over 5,000 people gathered outside the Westminster headquarters of the far-right party Reform, whose racist rhetoric has helped fuel the hate seen on the streets.
It’s hard to understand how minor divisions can come to dominate the process of building a challenge to the rule of the rich when the desperate need for a vehicle to fight poverty and despair is so abundantly clear, writes MATT KERR
