"It will be the start of a campaign of protest, strikes, direct action and civil disobedience in the country. We will not rest until austerity is history, our services are back in public hands and the needs of the majority are put first," Sam Fairbairn of the People’s Assembly said, as quoted by the Morning Star newspaper.
The Conservatives were reelected in early May, having won a landslide victory in the UK general elections.
The Conservatives, which introduced a five-year austerity program in 2010 while in coalition with the Liberal Democrats, recently said it would adopt a three-step approach to reducing the national deficit, including further welfare cuts, departmental spending cuts and boosting revenue through a crackdown on tax avoidance.
Tomorrow thousands will march to Parliament. That demo marks beginning of the end of this gov https://t.co/ih5QfoRd6L pic.twitter.com/sShTjdKA6l
— Sam Fairbairn (@samfairbairn) 19 июня 2015
The United Kingdom has been engulfed in anti-austerity protests since the general elections, with thousands of people taking to city streets to protest Tory policies.
