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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
The wealth of the super-rich grows by £35 million daily while our NHS and schools collapse — that’s why thousands of us will be gathering in London demanding that the billionaires foot the bill for the many crises they have caused, writes TYRONE SCOTT
