IT’S been a long time since we were together on our streets. There’s nothing quite like being able to stand together, in person, in solidarity. 

And there’s certainly plenty for us to protest about. From growing unemployment and disgraceful “fire and rehire” of working people, to the looming cut to universal credit, growing inequalities, institutionalised racism and the growth of the far right, for peace in an increasingly dangerous world or to fight the insulting 1 per cent pay offer to our NHS and public service heroes and the threat to the right to protest itself from the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill.
 
Whatever you’re campaigning for, demanding action on or simply angry about, join the People’s Assembly on London’s streets today to demand a new normal and the removal of a government not fit to govern.

As we emerge from Covid, there must be no going back to business as usual. No going back to the failed austerity policies of the past — the low-paid insecure jobs, homelessness, food and clothing banks, the privatisation and contracting out of our NHS and our public services, on their knees through the crisis but held together by the courageous workers on the front line who kept our loved ones cared for and our communities moving, and who far too often lost their own lives to this terrible disease.