Photo by Sup8rdan
These are simply two of the greatest Manchester photos I have ever seen. They were taken by two Instagram friends at the 100,000 strong anti-Tory, anti-austerity demo two Sundays ago. #TakeBackMcr was the hashtag for the week of events, gigs, rallies and demos and we did take the city back from the vicious vile and unwanted Tories.
As Maxine Peake said about the Tories staging their annual conference here -
How dare they come to our city, a city annihilated by their cuts?
Among the many wonderful and innovative students and demos, my fave was possibly the anti-third runway at Heathrow group who, in the middle of the night outside the Midland Hotel where the over privileged delegates were staying, played the sounds of planes taking off at them.
Organised by the wonderful People's Assembly (which I now attend - join us!), this umbrella organisation is an inspirational group of left leaning individual groups who are fighting back against the right wing extremism of the Tory government, their tax avoiding establishment pals and their right wing contacts in the media. We shall overcome and we shall overthrow this racist, out of touch government who damage the environment, inflict cuts on the most vulnerable, while giving yet more money to the already over wealthy.
Quite a crowd!
ReplyDeleteDoes Ms Peake think that our city should be closed to people who disagree with her views?
ReplyDeleteAs for the Peoples Assembly, we already have one.
It is called the Houses of Parliament.
Disagree with you on that one as usual Pete....
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