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(20,582 posts) Sat Jun 20, 2015, 05:52 PM Jun 2015

'Austerity Kills': Tens of Thousands March in London Against Brutal Cuts

Published on
Saturday, June 20, 2015
by Common Dreams

Nation-wide rally demands an 'alternative to austerity and to policies that only benefit those at the top'

by Sarah Lazare, staff writer

From across the United Kingdom, tens of thousands of people took to the streets of London Saturday to demand an end to brutal—and deadly—austerity measures.

The mass march, still ongoing at the time of publication, comes just over a month after the Conservative (Tory) Party's election wins.

The independent anti-austerity forum, the People's Assembly, declared ahead of the march that protesters aim to send a "clear message to the Tory government; we demand an alternative to austerity and to policies that only benefit those at the top."

Full article: http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/06/20/austerity-kills-tens-thousands-march-london-against-brutal-cuts

Top Comments

JonnyJames 6 hours ago
Austerity = Theft of public finances and infrastructure

Austerity is a euphemism used by the banksters

The Politicians are merely kleptocrats who work for the banksters. London is a cesspool of financial criminals and foreign oligarchs.

They want to privatize all public assets, asset-strip what is left. Maggie started the job, now it is time for the Grand Finale. Publicly-owned school sites and the NHS owns billions of pounds worth of real estate in London alone. This is a trillion pound prize the .01% are drooling for.

The only way to stop them is what is pictured above and more of it.

UK Readies for Massive Protest Against 'Austerity on Steroids'

Published on
Friday, June 19, 2015
by Common Dreams

Tens of thousands are expected to march against 'nasty, destructive cuts to the things ordinary people care about'

by Deirdre Fulton, staff writer

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A massive and growing anti-austerity movement will take to the streets of London on Saturday, June 20, with demonstrators demanding "an alternative to austerity and to policies that only benefit those at the top."

Tens of thousands are expected to march from the Bank of England to Parliament Square on Saturday, protesting the conservative government's "nasty, destructive cuts to the things ordinary people care about—the [National Health Service], the welfare state, education and public services."

Organized by The People's Assembly—a politically unaffiliated national campaign against austerity—the demonstration comes in the wake of UK elections in early May that saw the Conservative (Tory) Party seizing the majority of Parliamentary seats and Prime Minister David Cameron sweeping back to power.

"David Cameron and George Osborne can hardly contain their enthusiasm for the torrent of cuts and privatisations they are about to unleash," wrote the Guardian's Seumas Milne on Wednesday. "This is to be austerity on steroids."