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Over 100,000 people came onto the streets of London, Glasgow and Belfast and other towns across the UK yesterday to protest at the continuing Israeli attacks on the people of Gaza in which over 340 have died including 75 children. In London the names and ages of all the Palestinian children killed
‘Anti-capitalism is now firmly on the march’ claims Labour MP Michael Meacher - in doing so he makes an important connection between the worldwide upsurge in protests against austerity and the recent exposure of extreme right-wing corporate dominance ‘which behind the scenes runs most Western countries’ http://www.michaelmeacher.info/weblog/2011/10/anti-capitalism-is-now-firmly-on-the-march/
Johan Hari writing in today’s Independent refers to the ‘ripple of rage’ spreading across Britain in response to austerity measures and says that protest works: