DANCERS are planning to bust a move in a protest against fascism.

Protest group the English Disco Lovers are planning their own demonstration as a reaction to plans from the far right group English Defence League (EDL) to march in Brighton in April.

Organiser Elaine Ortiz said: “This is a peaceful alternative protest which is friendlier and different to the counter-demo.

“This will be our third year and we will be waving banners with slogans like ‘don’t hate gyrate’.

“We are trying not to fight fire with fire. We want to find a way of demonstrating without doing it in an aggressive way.

“I have always felt when you go down to these demonstrations you see people on one side shouting racist things and people on the other side shouting and swearing and calling them Nazis.

“It seems you have to be aggressive to be heard.”

As reported in Monday’s Argus, the EDL has announced plans to march in Brighton on April 18.

Last year 1,000 counter-demonstrators and 150 supporters of the group March For England clash-ed in the city centre.

March for England has always denied formal links to the EDL, and earlier this year said they had no plans for a St George’s Day march in the city.

They told their supporters on Facebook not to take part in the EDL-organised event.

Residents often raise concerns that the scale of counter-demonstrations add to the disruption and fear caused to residents and visitors.

Tony Campbell of Stop the March For England said he did not think that EDL and March for England targeted Brighton and Hove specifically because they got a reaction from the counter-demonstrations.

He said: “In 2008-9, before we were really a group, we received accounts of attacks on Asian people, which is one of the reasons we organised the counter-protest.

“We want to show these people we disapprove of them.

“If anything, I’m glad they are coming to Brighton and not victimising smaller communities who can’t stand up for themselves.”