While Labour began its Party conference, Brighton seafront hosted thousands of people calling for ‘Jobs, Education and Peace’.
Tax the rich and give welfare to all, protesters demanded.
The national protest, supported by major trade unions and left-wing groups, also ran under the banner ‘Rage Against Labour’. The protest passed without interference from police, and caused minimal disruption to the city.
Speakers from the national trade unions NUJ, NUT, UCU, and PCS, supported by Unite Against Fascism, the Green Party, Stop the War and many others, called for:
- An end to government cuts in public services
- New green jobs
- Welfare for all
- An end to the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
See the full photo-report here:
http://photographywithoutborders.org/2009/09/jobs-education-peace-protest-labour-party-conference-brighton/
Speakers from the national trade unions NUJ, NUT, UCU, and PCS, supported by Unite Against Fascism, the Green Party, Stop the War and many others, called for:
- An end to government cuts in public services
- New green jobs
- Welfare for all
- An end to the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
See the full photo-report here:
http://photographywithoutborders.org/2009/09/jobs-education-peace-protest-labour-party-conference-brighton/ 
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What if Labour Lose?
27.09.2009 20:08
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.
Hugh
Great speech by Greens& good turn out by IWW,well done SWP,but
28.09.2009 15:25
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
Unemployed ex union member