TOGETHER ALLIANCE: ARTISTS STRIKES BACK AGAINST FAR RIGHT EXTREMISM

Love. Unity. Hope. Together is an alliance of over 50 civil society organisations united against the far right. The Together Alliance are mobilising and organising across the country to bring a message of hope over fear, before holding a major demonstration in London on March 28th 2026.

I’ve never seen anything more significant than this announcement from Fontaines D.C., Paloma Faith, Paul Weller, Lenny Henry and more. They’re not sitting quietly in the background with objections to racism, nor just airing their views on social media, they’re jumping right into the fray, leading the charge with a powerful national demonstration set to sweep through London on Saturday, March 28, 2026. Mark it, carve it, tattoo it into your calendar, because showing up matters. Be there, stand shoulder to shoulder, and make the streets roar louder than hate. Add your name here now.

This is important because the far right isn’t skulking in the shadows anymore, it’s marching brazenly through central London with over 100,000 people, led by Tommy Robinson and amplified by Elon Musk’s smug and arrogant cameo. That’s not a fringe gathering, that’s a mass mobilisation that came with 26 police officers injured. Pretending it’s a harmless spectacle is political negligence.

And let’s be clear, this wasn’t some basement gathering of fringe obsessives. This was a full‑blown mob, a beastly spectacle, spewing venom at migrants, Muslims, refugees, hatred performed like it was Britain’s favourite sport. I saw it spill into Sheffield myself only weeks ago, where chants about trans people curdled the air. It was vile, it was brazen, and it was the most revolting display of hate I’ve ever witnessed.

I was left stunned, scared, sickened, and gobsmacked.

Over fifty organisations are queued up, from Stand Up To Racism’s bravest frontline activists to the beat-rhythmic pulse of Love Music Hate Racism, with the behemoth might of Unison, the TUC, the National Education Union, Friends of the Earth, Unite the Union, and many more behind them, determined to smash the fascist threat. Taking their places as if they were some sort of cultural battering ram, Leigh-Anne Pinnock, Brian Eno, Kneecap, The Charlatans, Clean Bandit, Charlotte Church, Beverley Knight, Joy Crookes, Frank Turner, AURORA, Toddla T, Napalm Death, Cornershop and joined on stage with acting talent Christopher Eccleston, Mark Rylance, David Harewood, Maxine Peake, Toby Jones, and comedic superstars Lolly Adefope, Asim Chaudhry, with Mark Steel coming along for the ride.

This isn’t some superficial charity gig, it’s deeply rooted in love, unity, and hope. It’s also a fierce, unyielding political force, thundering with defiance and poised to dismantle the far-right menace, because we must. We owe it to our mates, our kids, our colleagues. We all deserve a world freed from the grip of division and hate.

We’re being swept under in a toxic undertow of danger, where the airwaves and streets of this country are clogged with division, with racism, with raw hatred that’s been hurled by cowards waving flags. We can’t sit back, we can’t sit idle, we must rise and push back. And, yes, we stand in solidarity with this movement, ready to inter the far right under an avalanche of unity.

No race, sex, or class is better than any other. That’s exactly why racism gets my blood boiling.

PALMONA FAITH

This is, of course, not the first time musicians have invaded this territory. Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Rage Against the Machine, Billy Bragg’s arsenal of protest songs, the beats that fought fascism as hard as fists with Public Enemy, and Rock Against Racism’s punk assault alongside reggae rhythms annihilated fascism in the ’70s. More recently, Nadine Shah, Tim Burgess, Self Esteem, and Garbage lined up last year with the defenders of those who fought back against anti-immigrant venom in the wake of the Southport atrocities. Well, the truth is this, culture is a weapon against tyranny, or else every generation will simply be steamrollered.

But youth is the spark that gives this struggle its vitality, and without their unfiltered, unbridled fury, movements will wither away, like weeds that nobody bothers to water. The hard right exploits disillusioned youth, tempting them with their shallow ‘cosplay nationalism.’ But music cuts through apathy like a scalpel, lighting fires, forging links, and injecting politics straight into the veins.

If youth see their heroes taking a stand, activism ceases to be a thing of dusty history books, so that politics becomes something that must be tackled NOW.

If young people don’t counter‑organise, the demographic battle is already lost. Music cuts through apathy, it galvanises, it unites, it makes politics visceral. When fans see their idols on the streets, activism stops being a dusty relic and becomes something urgent, something now.

But this is the unrefined strength of a chorus together, one voice might be ignored or attacked, but hundreds of voices roar. With Fontaines D.C. in their corner, alongside Paloma Faith, Kneecap, Brian Eno, Napalm Death, and Charlotte Church, the cost of ignoring them would be absolute madness. This is not a murmur but a deafening thunderclap from the people. The snivelling isolationist right-wing would topple if this group gets its way, and would melt in the face of such solidarity.

These are not soft ideals, but they are battle-ready, targeted straight at the kind of bigotry that exists. But what’s the point, you might wonder. However, the point is that right-wing extremism is not operating behind cover anymore. They’re marching proudly with a zeal that any democrat would be repelled by. They strut along as if the system belongs to them. Baloney. Whatever the cure, reclaim the streets, give them nothing, show that their hatred can be, will be, outnumbered.

Songs, voices, bodies in the streets all infused, all primed and ready to strike back against the hate machinery with love and unity.

Why hammer this home? Because silence is the far right’s best friend. And culture, when it stops pretending to be neutral, isn’t background noise, it’s live ammunition.

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