(London) Union leaders: Protests to continue over cuts

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http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/union-leaders-protests-to-continue-over-cuts-2254592.html

Union leaders today vowed to continue campaigning against the Government's spending cuts amid mounting anger at the trouble makers who clashed with police and damaged stores and other buildings during a huge TUC demonstration.

A leading Labour politician described those involved in clashes in the West End as a "tiny minority of violent, parasitic unrepresentative hooligans", while London's Deputy Mayor said they were "fascist agitators".

Unofficial estimates put the numbers taking part in the protest at nearly half a million, with tens of thousands of people still joining a march through central London as a rally in Hyde Park was under way.

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"The next step is for the alternative voice to be counted in the ballot box in May. GMB will urge voters to reject unemployment, poverty and cuts in public services. We will ask them to support an end to tax evasion by the super-rich and multi national companies and support a financial transaction tax.

London: Half A Million In The Streets To Protest Massive Government Cuts
Our guest blogger is Erica Sagrans, a US-based freelance writer who has spent the last six weeks in the UK. You can follow her for more London protest updates on Twitter at @EricaS.
http://thinkprogress.org/2011/03/27/london-protests-government-cuts/