How UK’s diverse communities proved the far right wrong

How UK’s diverse communities proved the far right wrong

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09 August, 2024


Thousands of anti-racism protesters took to the streets in several English cities on Wednesday to oppose days of far-right violence that have had UK police on high alert. Nightly riots -- during which mosques and migrant-related facilities were attacked -- erupted across towns and cities in England and Northern Ireland over the last week, fuelled by a wave of misinformation surrounding the murder of three children on July 29. But on Wednesday evening, it was anti-racism and anti-fascist counter-protesters who were out in greater numbers, holding rallies in cities up and down England including London, Birmingham, Bristol, Liverpool and Newcastle. We spoke to some members of the country's Arab, Muslim, and other diverse communities to see what what they had to say about the far-right and the sense of unity brought about from the counter protests.