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On Saturday 500,000 attended the largest protest march in central London since the march against war in Iraq in 2003. In addition to the many trade union banners carried at the demonstration, hundreds of individual and mass produced posters called for an alternative to the present attack on the poor and an economy designed to protect and satiate the rich.

No Cuts. TUC March Central London 2011

No Cuts. TUC March Central London 2011

The Egyptian Sphinx on the Embankment provides an excellent resting place for this No Cuts banner. The statue is a copy of the Sphinx from ancient Egypt comprising a Lions body with the head of the Pharaoh Chephren. Essentially a symbol of the vanity of Chephren built with the Labour of his workers.

'Death by a thousand cuts'. TUC demonstration, March 2011

'We won't pay for their crisis'. TUC demonstration, March 2011

The crisis was created by the banks. The bankers continue to receive millionaire bonuses and we are told their is no alternative to the cuts. The large banner (below) embracing the bridge over the Embankment provides part of the answer.

Tax the rich. TUC demonstration, March 2011

'Liverpool Remembers', TUC demonstration March 2011

An intelligent piece of photomontage (above) is customised with the words ‘Liverpool Remembers’; the transition from Thatcher to Cameron is really effective. Below is a photograph of Liverpool during the Thatcher era.

Liverpool housing, 1978

Protestors on Cleopatra's needle, TUC March London 2011

'Why make the poor pay?', TUC March London 2011

'Cut war not welfare', TUC March London 2011

'Cut Trident', TUC March London 2011

'Tory cuts medicine', TUC March London 2011

'Tory cuts', TUC March London 2011

Birmingham teachers, TUC March London 2011

'Long live the welfare state', TUC March London 2011

'Death by a thousand cuts', TUC March London 2011