Veteran campaigner Tony Benn and outspoken orator George Galloway will head the list of speakers at the national demonstration against racism, fascism and Islamophobia on Saturday 6 November.

The march and carnival will not only hear from top speakers, but from a great line-up of musicians from our sister organisation Love Music Hate Racism.

Benn and Galloway will be joined on the platform by Emily Thornbury MP, Jean Lambert MEP, TUC assistant general secretary Kay Carberry and Dr Faisal Hanjra, assistant general secretary of the Muslim Council of Britain.

Other speakers include University and College Union general secretary Sally Hunt, Hugh Lanning, deputy general secretary of the PCS union, and Kevin Courtney, deputy general secretary of the National Union of Teachers.

Carnival floats

We will have music pumping out from carnival floats on the march as well as performances at the end of the demo.

The LMHR line-up includes Jerry Dammers, founder of The Specials, Drew McConnell of Babyshambles, radical rapper Lowkey, indie-rock, ska and hip-hop band Kid British, British-Muslim pop favourite Mumzy, Flow Dem and Missing Andy from TV’s Must Be the Music, electro-pop and Asian classical fusion artist Abbas Hasan, west-London singer Tasha Tah and LMHR stalwart DJ Rugrat.

Details

The march and carnival assembles on Saturday 6 November at 12 noon, Malet Street, London WC1.

It aims to bring together the widest possible alliance of people opposed to racism, fascism and Islamophobia – and show that the vast majority of people are opposed to the racism of the English Defence League and the fascists of the British National Party.

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