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5.15pm. Protesters have just finished their victory rally and are beginning to disperse after a historic day for anti-racist struggle in Britain.

Anti-fascist campaigners are today making a final push to build tomorrow’s protest against the racist English Defence League (EDL) in Tower Hamlets, east London.

London Underground workers in the RMT union today informed management that if the racist English Defence League (EDL) appear at any stations or on any trains tomorrow, they will refuse to work.

Cleaners at the University of London’s Senate House building walked out unofficially today (Thursday) and won back unpaid wages.

The home secretary, Theresa May, has today (Wednesday) banned all political marches in the City of London for 30 days. This is in addition to the five other London boroughs which face the bans, which were announced last Friday.

In the early 1980s, the black US punk band Bad Brains would get their audience to chant, "Black and white, we come here to unite."

The English Defence League (EDL) has declared that it will still demonstrate in east London this Saturday 3 September—despite a ban on its planned march.

In the 1880s, east London became known as the East End. It is an area that has long housed some of the greatest poverty in the capital.

Council workers in Barnet, north London, are to strike against privatisation on 13 September.

The racist English Defence League (EDL) plans to parade in the streets of Tower Hamlets, east London, on Saturday. This is despite a ban on all marches by home secretary Theresa May.