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How can we keep up this anti-fascist momentum?
Mass protests may have put fascists on the back foot for now, but Nigel Farage and Reform UK are fanning the flames of a dangerous new racist offensive, warns WEYMAN BENNETT, announcing Stand Up to Racism’s new campaign
TROUBLE AHEAD: (Left to right) Tommy Robinson, Donald Trump and Nigel Farage present a new, serious challenge from the right

THE last few weeks have changed British politics. We face a new, urgent far-right threat. But we have also seen how anti-racists can turn the tide.

The protests that took place on Wednesday August 7 and Saturday August 10 show what a mass movement against racism looks like.

In response to far-right riots, pogroms against migrants in hotels and attacks on mosques, the anti-racist movement roared back. Because people organised, mobilised and took to the streets we pushed the far right back — and shaped a crucial juncture in British politics.

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