Excellent photographs thanks for posting them! Not a complaint but nearly all your subjects are aged under twenty – possibly due to the dynamic style of your work – but for the record there seemed probably more older people at the demo.

I was one of them and I had a great day. The weather was fabulous and attending a political rally on Brighton beach was a unique experience. Pity there was not say twenty times more people but an important and inspiring demo nevertheless.

Maybe because on the way to Brighton I was listening to Ani Difranco’s Fellow Workers – the album in which she celebrates and collaborates with anarcho syndicalist folk music legend Utah Phillips and which is full of moving tales from the American Labour movement.

Maybe because I was musically primed with a vision of what it would be like to live with no trades unions, that on the demo I suddenly became very fearful of the next general election which by many accounts, Labour seems destined to lose. Bad, stupid and incompetent as Labour have proved to be in government, they don’t, at least, make a virtue out of hating poor people.

afew arguments where had about some marxists still sticking to the old dicatorship of the prolertariat BS&speakers were strictly just from unions.

No unemployed workers spoke or unemployed worker union members spoke though there are many & they are getting a raw deal.
They dont have contracts for wages or representation on anything, including voluntary jobs 99% of which are without a minimal food,transport contract.
but besides that a nice day.

We need a chocie at next election of some kind of left-green coalition that really fights for real democracy against this undemocratic banking system