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‘Far right won’t take over our streets’: Huge crowds march through London

Al Jazeera · · 684 words · By Faisal Ali
Far-right rise in UK Anti-racism movements
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“Organisers say ‘Together Alliance’ event was the largest anti-far-right march in British history, drawing half a million people.”
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Canadian Alliance of Student Associations (CASA) is a federally focused student advocacy organization. CASA currently has 29 members, who represent over 410,000 students from across Canada. With a…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Community organizing is a process where people who live in proximity to each other or share some common problem come together into an organization that acts in their shared self-interest. Unlike those…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Industrial Areas Foundation (IAF) is a national community organizing network established in 1940 by Saul Alinsky, Roman Catholic Bishop Bernard James Sheil and businessman and founder of the Chica…
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“London’s Metropolitan Police put the figure considerably lower, at approximately 50,000”
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Wikipedia entries about the Metropolitan Police and its history do not mention the specific attendance figure of 50,000 for this event. No relevant evidence found.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis is the head of London's Metropolitan Police Service. Sir Mark Rowley was appointed to the post on 8 July 2022 after Dame Cressida Dick announced her resign…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The history of the Metropolitan Police in London is long and complex, with many different events taking place between its inception in 1829 and the present day.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Metropolitan Police Service (MPS), commonly known as the Metropolitan Police, Met Police, or the "Met", is the territorial police force responsible for law enforcement and crime prevention within …
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“The protest was met with a far smaller group of counterprotesters waving Israeli flags and Iran’s pre-1979 monarchical flag.”
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Iran and Israel have been engaged in a proxy conflict since 1985. In the Israeli–Lebanese conflict, Iran has supported Lebanese Shia militias, most notably Hezbollah. In the Israeli–Palestinian confli…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Iran and Israel have not maintained a formal diplomatic relationship with each other since the Islamic Revolution in 1979. Beginning in the mid-1980s, the Iran–Israel proxy conflict has grown to large…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Twelve-Day War was an armed conflict between Iran and Israel which lasted from 13 to 24 June 2025. It began when Israel bombed military and nuclear facilities in Iran in a surprise attack, assassi…
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“One demonstrator, activist and writer Hamja Ahsan, told Al Jazeera he was motivated to attend after a rally last year that was organised by Robinson and drew 150,000 people.”
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“Robinson is reportedly planning another march in May.”
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“Eighteen people were arrested outside New Scotland Yard on Saturday after staging a protest in support of Palestine Action”
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“The march comes amid rising racism as Farage’s Reform party surges in the polls.”
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“Hope Not Hate, an antiracism campaign group, warned earlier in March that the British far right is now ‘bigger, bolder and more extreme than ever before’.”
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No evidence found in web search, cross-references, or Wikipedia to confirm Hope Not Hate's March 2024 statement.
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