‘It's a Revolt!' Students march in London
Students took to the streets of London en masse on Wednesday to fight government funding cuts and a massive hike in tuition fees. But rubber bullets and police intimidation threaten to turn the demonstration into a bloody affair.
The demonstrators gathered at the University of London in the center of the city around noon. Some 10,000 people were expected to take part in the march against the privatization of education and other attacks on the welfare state.
However RT’s Ivor Bennett, who is reporting from the scene, estimated that only several thousand had shown up as the march began.
Having been criticized for their mishandling of previous protests, the police announced they would be out in force. With 4,000 officers being deployed, the run-up to the march was fraught with tension..... MORE
Source: RT.com
URL: http://rt.com/news/students-march-london-police-911/
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"Ultimately, Beech believes the increasingly heavy-handed police tactics are a sign that the government has lost its legitimacy.
""This is a government with no mandate for its austerity measures that is forcing society to pay for a crisis that it did not create and the only way it is going to be able to do that over the coming years is through increasing levels of state violence,” he told RT."
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