The main news coming out of yesterday's day of protest and action called by students, workers and cabbies seem to be that it was a highly policed event, almost reaching paranoic levels of state control and clamping down on dissent ... and controlled it was! But nevertheless thousands upon thousands of people marched - and at times pushed their way - towards the City, with clear messages against the austerity measures currently imposed to the majority of the UK's population by bankers and the government.

Here there a few snaps pointing at some of those messages:

For a full round-up feature of the day with reports, photos, videos and a timeline of events see:

http://london.indymedia.org/articles/10850