CAMPAIGNERS will rally against the English Defence League (EDL) tomorrow.

The far-right group – which opposes what it calls the “Islamification” of the country – will demonstrate outside Dewsbury railway station tomorrow afternoon.

A counter-protest has been organised by religious groups and trades unions.

Huddersfield Trade Union Council secretary Bob Stoker will be among a coachload of activists heading to Dewsbury tomorrow morning.

“As trades unionists we seek the unity of workers and we oppose the EDL’s racist policy of scapegoating Muslims,” he said.

“We think it’s important to defend our multi-cultural society.”

The Huddersfield activists will leave from outside Jumbo’s Chinese restaurant on John William Street at 11.30am. Some places are still available on the coach.

The group will take part in a celebration of multi-culturalism at Wellington Road East Car Park from midday to 4pm.

Mr Stoker said: “It will be a peaceful event to show that the majority of people in Dewsbury and Kirklees support multi-culturalism.

“We hope that 300 people from Kirklees will turn up at the event.”

The organisers of tomorrow’s multi-cultural celebration issued a statement yesterday.

It read: “We, the undersigned, strongly oppose plans by the racist English Defence League – a group linked to the fascist BNP – to demonstrate in Dewsbury on June 11.

“The EDL is a racist group dedicated to attacking Asian people and Muslims. Islamophobia –bigotry against Muslims – is as unacceptable as any other form of racism. Its aim is to divide us by making scapegoats of one community, just as the Nazis did with the Jews in the 1930s.