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TODAY’S traditional May Day rally will bring together trade unionists, activists, students and anti-austerity campaigners in a display of solidarity in the capital.
Demonstrators in London will convene on Clerkenwell Green at 1pm before marching through Theobalds Road, Red Lion Square and the Strand to a rally beginning at 2.30pm in Trafalgar Square.
Speakers will include PCS national vice-president Zita Holbourne, RMT general secretary Mick Cash and Bectu’s Kelly Rogers, a sacked union rep at the Ritzy Picturehouse cinema in Brixton.
One hundred years after 1.7m workers shut the country down in defence of the miners, the struggles that sparked the 1926 General Strike are still with us – and will be honoured on London’s May Day march this year, writes MARY ADOSSIDES
As global fascism grows, ROGER McKENZIE urges the left to reclaim May Day’s revolutionary roots — not as an act of nostalgia, but as fuel for building a ‘community of resistance’ against exploitation and the rise of fascism
Join the traditional march from Clerkenwell Green, which will bring together countless international workers’ organisations in a statement against the far right