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May 2016

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May Day Rally

Trafalgar Square, London. Sun 1 May 2016

  

 
 Christine Blower, NUT General Secretary speaking, wearing a 'Born in the NHS' t-shirt. The NUT is supporting the

  Junior Doctors, and they may take strike action together

 Peter Kavanagh the UNITE Regional Secretary for London & Eastern Region

 

 A man waves a Tamil TIgers flag. Several younger Tamils are waving them from the upper levels of the plinth

Justice for the Shrewsbury Pickets banner in front of one of the lions

 

 Junior Doctor' Yannis Gourtsoyannis speaking

 
      
  Despite their huge representation at the event only one speaker from the many migrant groups was allowed to speak
 
Two women with Kurdish flags rest on the edge of the fountain 

one has a Karl Marx rosette, the other favours Engels 

National Council of Resistance of Iran stall against executions in Iran 

Bob & Roberta Smith speaking 

and he holds up paintings of the names of some of the political prisoners in Iran and elsewhere 

Bob & Roberta Smith holds up a painting 'Save the Human Rights Act' 

Luciana, one of the Brazilians protesting against the opposition impeachment of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff
talks about the opposition attempt at coup in Brazil 

 
   

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