‘Welfare, not warfare’: Thousands protest in London against austerity cuts

from PressTV

Thousands of people marched through central London on Saturday to protest government spending cuts and welfare reforms, voicing outrage over rising military budgets amid deepening social inequality. 

The demonstration—organized by the People’s Assembly—began at Portland Place and made its way to Whitehall, with crowds chanting and holding placards reading “Tax the Rich,” “Nurses Not Nukes,” and “Welfare Not Warfare.”

Trade unionists, campaigners, and activists from across the UK joined the protest under the slogan “No to Austerity 2.0,” calling on the Labour government to abandon austerity policies and invest in public services instead of warfare.

Campaigners condemned Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s economic agenda, accusing his cabinet of hiding behind so-called fiscal rules while enacting cuts that deepen poverty, erode social protections, and widen inequality...

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UK farmers plow into central London

from RT

Over 150 tractors descended on Britain’s Parliament on Monday evening in a protest against post-Brexit regulations and trade agreements that they say will endanger their livelihoods and undermine food security.

Farm vehicles flying UK flags made their way across London and through Westminster, carrying signs with slogans such as ‘Save British farming’ and ‘No farming, no food, no future’. The tractor rally became the largest among the latest protests launched by farmers across the country.

According to the campaign groups Save British Farming and Fairness for Farmers of Kent that organized the march, cheap food imports and unsupportive policies are putting food security in the country at major risk...

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White people barred from London theater (by a sleazy RACE GRIFTER who knows his shit play is doomed without a gimmick)

from RT

White people have been told not to attend two upcoming performances of a play about racism and sexuality in London’s West End. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s office has condemned the move as “wrong and divisive.”

Written by Jeremy O Harris, who is black, ‘Slave Play’ opens in London’s Noel Coward Theater in June and runs until September. Two performances of the play – on July 17 and September 17 – are billed as “Black Out” nights, tickets for which will only be sold to “all-black-identifying audiences.”

 “The idea of a Black Out night is to say this is a night that we are specifically inviting black people to fill up the space, to feel safe with a lot of other black people in a place where they often do not feel safe,” Harris told the BBC on Tuesday.

Despite explicitly asking only black people to attend the performances, Harris then claimed that “nobody is saying that by inviting black audiences here [white people] are uninvited.”

In an apparent climbdown the following day, Harris wrote on X that black people “can bring their white friends or lovers if they want.”...

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