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The Babyshambles singer backed the Love Music Hate Racism rally, which will take place between London's City Hall and Trafalgar Square today.
"There will be no passage of evil through these isles without a proper, good struggle," he said.
"This island has always been a melting pot and personally I am 100% mongrel in the great dog stew of history.
"Bona fide scouse, London Irish, Jew, Geordie, BiloRussian. Closed borders are like closed minds. What of humanity's horizons? How infinite are they or how barricaded are they?"
He added: "Racism is upon us and let us not forget it is still within living memory that six million people died in gas chambers because of a hateful ideology."
The march opens a year-long campaign which hopes to hinder the BNP's attempts to win seats in the European, local council and city mayoral elections in 2009.
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