Steve Hedley, RMT regional organiser, speaking at the start of the anti-cuts march to the TUC in london, October 23rd:

"international capital is attacking us"

"they're trying to manufacture a consensus in the media, and that consensus is trying to say that we're all in this together"

"we are not going to pay for their crisis"

"we've got to be prepared to escalate it"

"but we're not going to achieve this by marching up and down"

"we're not prepared to sit back and let our welfare state and our jobs be used and dismantled to pay for the capitalist crisis"

See report : Radical Workers March as Firefighters Strike