{"id":500755,"date":"2026-03-28T21:39:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T21:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/500755\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T21:39:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T21:39:09","slug":"thousands-march-through-london-in-stand-against-the-far-right-protests-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/500755\/","title":{"rendered":"Thousands march through London in stand against the far right | Protests News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Organisers say \u2018Together Alliance\u2019 event was the largest anti-far-right march in British history, drawing half a million people.<\/p>\n

London, United Kingdom \u2013 Tens of thousands of people have marched through central London in what organisers are calling the largest ever demonstration against the far right in British history.<\/p>\n

The Together Alliance march, backed by about 500 groups including trade unions, antiracism campaigners and Muslim representative bodies, brought together a diverse crowd of all ages from across the country on Saturday, converging on Whitehall near the Houses of Parliament.<\/p>\n

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Organisers said that half a million people took part.<\/p>\n

Kevin Courtney, chairman of the Together Alliance, told crowds the march \u201cgives us all confidence to carry on.\u201d<\/p>\n

London\u2019s Metropolitan Police put the figure considerably lower, at approximately 50,000, though officers acknowledged it was difficult to reach an accurate figure given how spread out the crowds were.<\/p>\n

The protest was met with a far smaller group of counterprotesters waving Israeli flags and Iran\u2019s pre-1979 monarchical flag.<\/p>\n

Aadam Muuse, a trade union activist, told Al Jazeera that racism and Islamophobia had moved from the fringes into mainstream politics, and was \u201cbeing pushed by parliamentarians\u201d.<\/p>\n

He said the march was \u201cmuch needed to push back against [Reform leader Nigel] Farage and his ilk,\u201d adding that the populist party \u201cmust be defeated at the ballot box and Tommy Robinson challenged on the streets\u201d.<\/p>\n

\"DemonstratorsDemonstrators march against \u2018far-right extremism\u201d from Park Lane to Trafalgar Square, organised by the Together Alliance, a coalition of unions and civil society groups, in London [Hannah McKay\/Reuters]<\/p>\n

Al Jazeera\u2019s Milena Veselinovic, reporting from the march, said demonstrators were resisting what they saw as \u201cthe politics of hate and division\u201d in the United Kingdom.<\/p>\n

One demonstrator, activist and writer Hamja Ahsan, told Al Jazeera he was motivated to attend after a rally<\/a> organised by the far-right agitator-activist Tommy Robinson that drew 150,000 people and was marred by violence that injured several police officers. Robinson is reportedly planning another rally in May.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe need to show them that we\u2019re the majority,\u201d Ahsan said. \u201cAt a street level, the far right won\u2019t take over our streets.\u201d<\/p>\n

He said the atmosphere on Saturday was akin to the Notting Hill Carnival, as the march united people from all backgrounds, \u201cfrom pensioners to children\u201d.<\/p>\n

Museum worker Charlotte Elliston told Al Jazeera that she also feels unsettled by the far right\u2019s creeping rise.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou think this would never happen here, and then all of a sudden this might happen,\u201d she said. \u201cYou see that it is getting scary.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"AA man holds a placard, as demonstrators march against far-right extremism from Park Lane to Trafalgar Square, organised by the Together Alliance, a coalition of unions and civil society groups, in London [Hannah McKay\/Reuters]<\/p>\n

Several left-wing politicians joined the demonstration.<\/p>\n

Independent MP Jeremy Corbyn posted on X that the \u201cproblems we face are not caused by migrants or refugees\u201d, arguing they were rooted instead in \u201can economic system rigged in favour of corporations and billionaires\u201d.<\/p>\n

MP Zarah Sultana said on X, \u201cThere\u2019s one minority we should be angry at: the billionaires funding division while working class people can\u2019t make ends meet.\u201d<\/p>\n

Green Party leader Zack Polanski, Dianne Abbott and Greater Manchester mayor Andy Burnham were also among the crowds.<\/p>\n

\u2018Historic demonstration\u2019<\/p>\n

The rights group Amnesty UK hailed the \u201chistoric demonstration\u201d, saying marchers were \u201ccalling for a different vision of society \u2013 one which places dignity, compassion and human rights at its heart\u201d.<\/p>\n

A separate march organised by the Palestine Solidarity Campaign, which assembled at Exhibition Road near Hyde Park, converged with the main demonstration during the afternoon.<\/p>\n

Eighteen people were arrested outside New Scotland Yard on Saturday after staging a protest in support of Palestine Action, the protest group which remains proscribed under the Terrorism Act despite a High Court ruling in February that the government\u2019s decision to ban it was unlawful.<\/p>\n

\"ProtestersProtesters holding placards gather ahead of speeches after a march against the far right, organised by the Together Alliance, in central London [Henry Nicholls\/AFP]<\/p>\n

The march comes amid rising racism<\/a> as Farage\u2019s Reform party surges in the polls.<\/p>\n

Hope Not Hate, an antiracism campaign group, warned earlier in March that the British far right is now \u201cbigger, bolder and more extreme than ever before\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Organisers say \u2018Together Alliance\u2019 event was the largest anti-far-right march in British history, drawing half a million people.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":500756,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[591,59,57,58,50,229,3283,25335,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-500755","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-kingdom","8":"tag-europe","9":"tag-gb","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-greatbritain","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-politics","14":"tag-protests","15":"tag-the-far-right","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom","18":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=500755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500755\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/500756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=500755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=500755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=500755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}