Protesters against public spending cuts will join the traditional May Day rally in Manchester.
Trade unions, students and local community groups will join together in a show of solidarity on Sunday.
They will march through the city centre before a rally outside Urbis organised by Manchester TUC (Trade Unions Council).
May 1 has been International Labour Day since the 19th century. The first Manchester march is said to have taken place in 1892 when workers campaigned against a shorter working week.
This year, demonstrators will assemble at 1pm at All Saints' Park on Oxford Road. They will march down Oxford Road, Peter Street, Deansgate, John Dalton Street, Cross Street, St Mary’s Gate and along Deansgate to Urbis where a rally will take place outside at 2.15pm.
Food, music and poetry and kids activities will be put on at Friends' Meeting House afterwards.
Speakers at the rally will include trade union members preparing for strike action against job cuts.
There will also be representatives from Manchester Coalition Against the Cuts, who are lobbying against spending cuts in the city, University of Manchester Students' Union and the Manchester based human rights organisation RAPAR and transport members of trade union UNISON who are taking action against redundancies.
Protesters against cuts to join Manchester's May Day march
April 29, 2011
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why are they are marching against what most sensible people see as a way of cutting the national debt left by nu labour?
probably get the same poor turn out as the last march. do the loony left not get the message that the public of manchester have better things to do with their time off?
A fitting honour to the late John Sullivan creator of the comic character Wolfie in Citizen Smith. The Tooting Popular Front marching through Manchester. Power to the People!
I would like to know if this lot is supporting AV or not
I'll be there, with my union - NUJ - exercising my democratic right and showing my contempt for the so-called Coalition', aka: the ship of fools.
I shall then enjoy a leisurely lunch and a good drink with kindred spirits.
Sour-faced, malignant Tory trolls, not welcome.
a quaint tradition,like morris dancing and the maypole,a gathering of dinosaurs,long may it continue
Good to see them protesting that Labour spent everyone's money, and the fact that the nation now has to balance the books. Good on them
The usual rent a mob day out! They would still turn out if the government was to put 10 grand in everyone's pocket! Go to North Korea to protest and see where it gets them!
Manchester Council/North Korea? There is a similarity!
Please can someone answer me a question, who does this country owe all this money too?
Instead of making cuts why not sell all the shares used when they bought (not bailed out) the banks and use that money?
Or even better use CASHMYGOLD or consolidate the debt into 1 easy payment,lol
Keep the peasants fighting among themselves or beating up nasty foreigners, meanwhile we are so filthy rich we are running out of private Caribbean islands to buy. Anyway, do you know how much it costs to crew and maintain a motor yacht in the Med these days? If my pops hadn't re-registered our family businesses in the Channel Isles years ago and if I didn't pretend to live in Bermuda half the year we would be paying tens of millions in taxes. More tax cuts please Posh Dave, and keep blaming the Global Economic Crisis on Nu-Labor. Those peasants have swallowed that hook, line and sinker. What a larf, eh?
We wouldn't need spending cuts if we weren't paying £10bn each year to the EU which is £200million a week. And those 40,000 civil srvants handling our money in Brussels don't pay income tax either.
Over £360,000 in the last year paid out by a Greater Manchester Council within its salaries costs (your money) to full time Union Representatives and the MEN won`t let me tell you more.
Why MEN ?????????????????????????
Interestingly, the council initially thought the march was on Sunday 2nd May before hastily sticking a '1st' to most of the signs.
Missed one though!
Also kids, just remember, a protest event means marching, protesting, banners, speaking out for yourselves. It doesn't mean smashing up Starbucks, McDonalds & Top Shop like a bunch of over active monkeys.