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#Oct20 150,000 on TUC demo PHOTOS

Mike | 21.10.2012 13:46 | Public sector cuts

Many thanks to everyone who made the effort to show up

Get ready for the NUS demo on Nov 21st

Mike

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I nice outing for the middle classes of Henley, Hampstead and Primrose Hill

21.10.2012 15:14

I notice that demo was made up of the usual middle class protesters from Henley, Hampstead and Primrose Hill. People for whom the cuts wont make any difference anyway. Doesn't Charlotte look dashing in that makeup and look at Rupert waving wear that bandana and waving that black flag.

working class hero

@working class hero

21.10.2012 15:35

I suppose all those 'middle class' members of trade unions just don't cut it with you. You sound like either a right-wing troll or cop paid to slag off anyone who gets off their arse to oppose the Con-Dems? What did you do yesterday workingclasshero?

shero

tax justice? lol

21.10.2012 17:48

Tax justice?
How can you demand money from people with threats of violence, justly?
The only justice can be free choice in what "essential" goods and services you buy and what charities you support.
Tax is theft. Pure and simple!
Don't forget the rich get rich on our tax money. No one bails out bankers by choice with their own money. No one buys nuclear missiles and war plains by choice with their own money. The tax system funds and protects all that is wrong with society.
Yes sure it funds some good stuff as well, but the good stuff could equally well be funded by free choice, the bad stuff could not.

anarchist

Working class

21.10.2012 21:29

Interesting, the half dozen black-bloc I spoke to were all (very friendly, but) very well-spoken

The ordinary Trades Unionists I spoke to were all Northern working class

Spot the troll

Henley my ass

21.10.2012 21:41

@Working class hero - click on the first photo to enlarge it (it's a montage of 3 consecutive shots of the march, photographed, from roughly the same position, as it progresses along)

Tell us now, which parts of the words Communication Workers (ie - posties) Midland Region, CWU Crewe & Leeds, Springfield Fuels, National Union of Rail, Maritime & Transport Workers, Tilbury Dockers etc are you too thick to read?! Alot of dockers and lorry drivers live in Hampstead and Henley do they, moron?!

Piotr

OCT 20 - MORE PHOTOS

21.10.2012 21:58

Cull bankers, not badgers

1971

The Black Bloc

21.10.2012 23:55

@Spot the Troll

Half dozen black bloc (Half a dozen being six)? You obviously never seen them. There were at least one hundred and out of them, they were all solidly working-class from areas like the remaining working-class areas of the East End of London (Plus South and North London too), the North East, Kendal, Glasgow, Essex, Liverpool and Manchester etc. You obviously never seen them or else you would have known otherwise. I suggest you look at the Demotix photos of the black bloc and you will see the numbers were well above "half a dozen".

Besides, just because someone is well spoken and knows how to speak politely and with correct grammar etc. does that mean that they are not working-class? Are working-class people like myself not capable of stringing a coherent sentence together? Or do you have the vision that we are all uneducated and docile?

Northern Working-Class

@Northern Working-Class

23.10.2012 13:03

Learn to read mate. The comment didn't say there were only 6 black-bloc, the bloke (?) said s/he personally SPOKE to 6 black-bloc - your opinion will be more convincing if you bother to read the statements you're criticising

The Whale

Promote the Nov 5 and Nov 21st demos!!!!!!!!!!!!!

23.10.2012 13:24

Get out on the streets with stickers, posters, leaflets and spray-cans and promote the Nov 5 Anonymous and Nov 21st NUS demos!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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#Oct20 150,000 on TUC demo PHOTOS

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I nice outing for the middle classes of Henley, Hampstead and Primrose Hill

@working class hero

tax justice? lol

Working class

Henley my ass

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The Black Bloc

@Northern Working-Class

Promote the Nov 5 and Nov 21st demos!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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