TOMORROW’S giant People’s Assembly Against Austerity demonstration will light the fuse on an explosive summer of strikes and protests, anti-cuts activists predicted yesterday.

People of all stripes have backed the march to Parliament Square and following mass anti-austerity festival, from grass-roots campaigners to comedian Russell Brand.

Stop the War Coalition convener Lindsey German said it is just the start of a concerted campaign to fend off the attacks on Britain’s poorest launched by Chancellor George Osborne from “planet Downing Street.”