This Saturday, 25 October, UKIP (UK Independence Party) had planned to reach the fifth and final destination of its ‘mass deportations tour’ – set to take place in Whitechapel, East London.
Now led by the extreme far right, UKIP, its supporters, and party leader Nick Tenconi have been taking to the streets of Britain recently to whip up fear in working-class communities.
And they had set their sights on terrorising residents of Whitechapel, an area with a longstanding Bengali community – attempting to sow division and turn working-class people from different backgrounds against each other.
Under enormous pressure from the local community, however, the Met Police have now instituted a Public Order Act, banning UKIP from assembling in the borough of Tower Hamlets.
We can have no trust in the armed bodies of men of the state. The police ultimately represent the interests of the British establishment – the same people who fuel the likes of UKIP in the first place.
Instead, workers and their communities must trust only in their own strength when it comes to fighting the far right.
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Emboldened by the establishment
This move by the authorities, in reality, will only encourage the far right even further, providing proof of how the establishment and its institutions are supposedly out to get them.
In truth, the far right has been aided and emboldened by the actions and rhetoric of the British establishment.
These ladies and gentlemen have done everything they can to redirect anger away from themselves and those they represent: the billionaires and landlords.
In recent months, ‘Sir’ Keir Starmer and his ilk have increasingly resorted to racism as a distraction from their crimes – using immigrants as a scapegoat for the social ills caused by British capitalism’s decline.
Not long ago, Starmer was talking about Britain becoming an “island of strangers”: echoing the words of Enoch Powell; pouring fuel on the fires in society; and helping to stoke and encourage deranged UKIP members and their like.
This partly explains the size of the ‘Unite the Kingdom’ rally last month, when over 100,000 Tommy Robinson supporters descended onto the streets of London.
The leaders of the organised left and trade unions, meanwhile, failed to mobilise activists or give a clear political answer to this mass protest of the right. As a result, the counter-demo only drew a crowd of around 5000.
This undoubtedly helped to further embolden the far right and any hardened fascist layers. This has been reflected in black and Asian communities, in particular, by an increased number of violent racist attacks on innocent individuals.
In Oldbury in the West Midlands, for example, a Sikh woman was raped recently, with the two abusers shouting: “You don’t belong in this country; get out!”
In the last two months, meanwhile, an independent organisation called DOAM (Documenting Oppression Against Muslims) has recorded an increasing number of attacks on Muslims, mosques, Islamic centres, and imams.
I’ve seen this @doamuslims graphic being shared around in local anti-racist groups.
The lying establishment want you to believe that the Palestine movement is fuelling hatred, racism, and division in Britain.
But we all know that vile, Islamophobic hate crimes take place week… pic.twitter.com/p3VNaeEEUJ
— Jack Tye Wilson ☭ (@bolsh3vik) October 6, 2025
What UKIP represent
In the mid-2010s, UKIP was a prominent right-wing populist party. Recently, however, following the departure of Nigel Farage to form Reform UK, it has been transformed into a small, fringe, fascist outfit.
The party has changed its insignia to the iron cross, for example – most commonly associated with the German military under Nazi rule.
Under the banner of ‘mass deportations’, UKIP’s real aim is to smash the organised working class. Number one on their mission statement reads: “Declare war on far-left extremism, on the Communists and Marxists in our institutions, taxpayer funded public sector, and within society.”
If this was not clear enough, at the party’s annual conference this month, UKIP member and aristocrat Viscount Christopher Monckton the Third of Brenchley proudly proclaimed: “We will defeat communism!”
“We will defeat communism!”
Viscount Christopher Monckton delivers a passionate speech on the dangers of communism at our annual conference! 🇬🇧 pic.twitter.com/qPTKfAnkRt
— UK Independence Party (@UKIP) October 11, 2025
The character of UKIP is therefore now qualitatively different – much more extreme – than the Tories or Reform. They are deliberately intimidating Muslim and working-class areas, rather than running around the centre of London. This is a targeted provocation.
Militant traditions
Time and time again, it has been shown that the fascists and far right can only properly be driven off our streets by the organised and mobilised might of the working class.
Look no further than last summer, for example, when thousands mobilised to drive out the far right across England.
The history of East London is also rich with inspiring examples of working-class unity and anti-fascist movements.
From the Battle of Cable Street in 1936, to when the National Front was kicked out of Brick Lane in the 1970s – we must draw upon these militant traditions today.
The fascists, in reality, are small in numbers. By confronting these thugs with the strength of the organised working class, we can send them packing and chase them off our streets wherever they emerge.
Already on UKIP’s tour, in areas like Liverpool and Nottingham, the far right have found themselves vastly outnumbered.
The far-right menace still threatens London this weekend, meanwhile, with the Public Order Act only covering Tower Hamlets.
The leaders of the left and labour movement must therefore not be left off the hook. The trade union leaders and figures like Jeremy Corbyn, Zarah Sultana, and Green leader Zack Polanski should be mobilising their members and supporters to drive the far right out of our communities, whenever they rear their heads.
Smash capitalism!
The RCP will be out in East London this weekend, calling for militant class struggle demands and methods to fight the far right.
Fundamentally, this means challenging capitalism and uniting workers against the real enemy: not the small boats or migrant workers, but the billionaires and bosses.
The growth of the far right and fascism is ultimately a product of the deep and prolonged crisis of the capitalist system. It is the misery and poverty of capitalism that provides the fertile ground for them and their racist, divisive ideas.
The only way to smash the far right once and for all, therefore, is to smash capitalism.
