Photograph: Ben Stansall/AFP/Getty
Central London was brought to a standstill on Saturday as more than a 400,000 people took to the streets in a protest against government spending cuts
The rally was entitled "March for the Alternative". This is an important exhortation: we are not just saying stop the cuts; we are saying they are not necessary in the first place. The economic predicament was not brought about by frontline services. The responsibility lies firmly within an unregulated financial sector.
Yet the public who provided a bailout have had to pay a second time in terms of unemployment, house repossession and frozen wages, and a third time by a denial of legal redress.
There are clear alternatives: the Robin Hood tax; the enforcement of tax liabilities; the curtailment of tax avoidance schemes particularly in the corporate sector and the termination of an obscene bonus culture.
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