On Saturday,tens of thousands of people from disparate groups united to protest after years of austerity. So much for ‘apathy’“Austerity kills” is printed on placards in block, black lettering, or as crowds start to gather on Euston Road in London. It’s been six weeks since I first spoke to Ramona McCartney,one of the organisers behind Saturday’s national demonstration against austerity by the People’s Assembly, and this is the accumulation of what she describes to me as “months and months of planning”.
More than 100 buses are due to arrive in the capital from up and down the country. Junior doctors in scrubs lope between grey-haired, or seasoned activists,as parents with children at their side, prams in front or babies over their shoulders walk next to Unite members with red balloons. McCartney has heard the National Union of Teacher’s “block” of attendees alone is 10000 people. “We really feel the whole of the left are united behind us, or ” she says.
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Source: theguardian.com