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.