Some of the corporate media were paying attention..
An FBU member speaking.
Telling like it is from from France...
Fancy paying up to £7,000 p/a in college fees? No, neither do they.
East Road progess...
Not feeling snug on Burleigh St...
Marching in Unison.
Market forces at work..?
Emmanuel Road progress..
King Street progress...
Sussex Street progress...
Market Street progress...
Flower power..?
Assembled...
...With a common purpose outside The Guildhall.
It's a Dog's life...
Organ of The State..?
The bigger picture.
A decent turnout!
Starting them early...
The march did a single circuit of Cambridge City Centre, before finishing at the traditional venue for rallies, that being Cambridge Market Square. However, in a break with tradition, the Guildhall was opened up, so that the many hundreds who were in attendance could sit in the warmth at the rally.
It was a good natured, positive event, with a broad cross-section people turning up to protest. The turnout was impressive, for an event which was organised at very short notice, and had a low level of publicity.
It's worth pointing out that Britain has had a national debt since Elizabethan times (peaking after World War Two), when Queen Elizabeth pushed the country into the red by building a fleet of battleships to fend off the Spanish Armada (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Spanish_Armada). Since then, for the last five hundred years, there has never been a time when we have not had a national debt, so we are being presented a with a fundamentally flawed argument as to why the public sector requires such swingeing cuts. In fact, most economists would argue that it is necessary for the Capitalist system to operate within a certain margin of indebtedness for it to actually function. Whether we like it or not, this is the way it works, and if any politician tells you otherwise, they are lying.
No, what we are witnessing is a concerted attempt by right wing governments across Europe to gut our public services, possibly in a pre-emptive attempt to privatise them, devolving responsibility (and liability) away from the state, in favour of something more "competitive" - that is, driven by the requirements of a small number of private shareholders, rather than by the needs of the majority of Human Beings.
However, we the ordinary people have different ideas to the Bankers, Market Analysts and Politicians, because we all acknowledge - and are willing to fight for - a fair and decent level of employment and living standards for all.
This is why there will be more demonstrations, more pickets, more walk outs, until the Neo Cons in government (masquerading as something new) get the message that they can't have things their way.
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Carry on
26.10.2010 08:01
Chrissie
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