Unite Against Fascism is an anti-fascist pressure group in the United Kingdom, with support from MPs of all mainstream UK political parties - including the current Conservative Prime Minister David Cameron. It describes itself as a national campaign with the aim of alerting British society to a perceived threat of fascism and the far right.
As of 2012, its honorary president is Doreen Lawrence, and its joint secretaries are Weyman Bennett of the Socialist Workers Party and the Anti-Nazi League, and Sabby Dhalu, formerly of the National Assembly Against Racism (NAAR).
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