March Towards Far Proper Hate: Final Saturday, twenty sixth October 2024 I joined 1000’s of others marching ine London in response to a far-right march referred to as by ‘Tommy Robinson’ beneath the title ‘Unite the Kingdom’.
Police had imposed circumstances on each marches, guaranteeing that they saved a good distance aside and there was little or no bother, with solely 4 arrests on the Robinson march and two on the Stand As much as Racism occasion.
Organisers of the counter-protest say that 20,000 got here to march and the Robinson march was reported to be slightly smaller. However definitely the massive turnout for the Stand As much as Racism occasion confirmed that the dominion was not united behind the far-right racists.
One individual considerably not current on the racist march was the anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim activist Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, commonly known as ‘Tommy Robinson’, who was remanded in custody the day before today to attend Woolwich crown court docket on Monday for his alleged breach of a 2021 excessive court docket order barring him from repeating libellous allegations in opposition to a Syrian refugee. He was additionally individually charged for a cell phone offence beneath schedule 7 of the Terrorism Act 2000.
Police restricted Stand As much as Racism for assembly on Regent Road and Piccadilly Circus, whereas Robinson’s protest needed to muster at Victoria round a mile and 1 / 4 to the south although fairly extra on the bottom.
The far proper had been marching to a rally in Parliament Sq., whereas Stand As much as Racism’s rally was on the north finish of Whitehall, with round 400 metres of blocked off highway between the 2.
I spent round 45 minutes photographing at Piccadilly Circus earlier than strolling right down to Trafalgar Sq. for one more occasion, catching up with the march afterward Cockspur Road roughly midway on its brief march to the rally.
Because the band of logos alongside the underside of the principle banner point out the the Stand As much as Racism protest was supported by an enormous vary of organisation is together with virtually each commerce union in addition to teams who work with refugees and asylum seekers and there have been many commerce union banners carried on the march.
In addition to the mass-produced placards from the organisers, many on the march had include their very own, and my pictures embrace a few of these I fondud extra fascinating.
A few of the banners together with these from the Latin-American and Jewish Bloc additionally indicated their assist for Palestine, and there have been fairly a couple of others on the march with Palestinian flags. Tommy Robinson has additionally made clear his assist for the genocidal actions of the Israeli State as part of his anti-Muslim stance.
I stayed in Trafalgar Sq. because the march glided by, primarily to see all the marchers, or not less than an excellent proportion of them within the crowds going previous so I might pick those that appeared extra fascinating to {photograph}, both from the facet or by dashing into the group. But additionally as a result of this appeared the almost definitely place the place some would possibly attempt to divert from the authorized route and attempt to attain the racist rally.
And on the very finish of the march a big group behind a black banner ‘NO TO TOMMY ROBINSON – NO TO FASCISM’ paused after which made what gave the impression to be a fairly half-hearted try and do exactly that, however had been simply held by a skinny line of police on the entrance to The Mall. Solely a small group on the centre of the banner gave the impression to be making any actual effort to push via the police and people on the finish the place I used to be standing simply stood holding the banner – and the group behind was standing watching and never becoming a member of in.
A stand-off ensued, however after some minutes a small police snatch squad got here and pushed one of many protesters previous or fairly via the place I used to be standing, pushing me forcefully to the facet. I managed to get better and take a couple of photos as he was thrown to the bottom and handcuffed. However I don’t know why that they had determined to arrest this man.
I took a couple of photos after this, however determined to not undergo the packed crowds in direction of the stage and {photograph} the rally now happening however took the tube from Charing Cross to start my journey dwelling.
These photos are a few of these I filed with Alamy and you’ll see my set of over 40 photos their or at Stand Up To Racism March Towards Far Proper Hate on Fb.
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