UNIONS vowed to oppose a so-called free speech rally called by the far-right agitator known as Tommy Robinson in London this Saturday.

TUC congress delegates passed an emergency motion today urging their members to support the counter demonstration while seeking to deepen the movement’s links with anti-racist organisations to “strengthen our counter-narrative.”

Moving the motion, Public and Commercial Services union general secretary Fran Heathcote said that Reform UK’s “politics is the antithesis of everything our movement stands for,” with the party’s MPs unanimously opposing the Employment Rights Bill and Renters Reform Bill.

“They are on the side of exploitative bosses and landlords, not workers and renters,” she said.

“Elon Musk is backing and promoting the likes of Reform and Tommy Robinson; Musk is the union-busting employer who spent millions to undermine workers organising in Tesla.

“We have to stand up this — industrially, politically and morally.”

Seconding, National Education Union delegate Jessica Edwards said: “We have seen a second summer of racism and violence in our streets.”

“They do not represent any woman,” she added, noting that 41 per cent of those arrested at last summer’s race riot had been previously reported to the police for domestic abuse.

“Years of austerity, years of poverty and years of hardship for working-class pleople have created a sense of hopelessness.

“We have to say refugees are not to blame. We are not an island of strangers.

“The enemy arrives by limousine, not by rubber dinghy.”

Fascism and far right are no longer “abstract terms of truth,” she said, after Stand Up to Racism warned extremist groups were involved in anti-migrant hotel protests.