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Anti-facist protesters marched through Leeds city centre on Saturday to demonstrate against Yorkshire Patriots
[Neil Terry Photography]
A FASCIST rally at a Leeds war memorial was dwarfed by a counter-protest on Saturday when 300 anti-fascists turned up to oppose the event.
Around 60 fascists were heavily protected by police at the war memorial in The Headrow in Leeds city centre where the rally had been organised by the far-right Yorkshire Patriots group.
A loudspeaker farcically blared out Vera Lynn singing the second world war song “there’ll be bluebirds over the white cliffs of Dover” and a wartime speech by Winston Churchill including the words “We will fight them on the beaches….”
As extremist movements grow on the streets and at the ballot box, the emergence of the Together Alliance points to a vital strategy: unity across trade unions, campaigners and communities, says TONY CONWAY
May elections will soon be upon us and SABBY DHALU calls for a maximum mobilisation, across Britain, to defeat Reform UK and the right at the ballot box
Once again Tower Hamlets is being targeted by anti-Islam campaigners, this time a revamped and radicalised version of Ukip — the far-right event is now banned by the police, but we’ll be assembling this Saturday to make sure they stay away, says JAYDEE SEAFORTH
