Come and join the working class | IMGpapers 1980

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theme: clear what they wanted. continuous chant.

'Come and join us, come and join us Come and join the working class.

We'll tell Maggie Thatcher To kick Keith Joseph in the... by — virtually every union imaginable was represented.

Square, only to send them back home again. AS THE marchers wound their way from Hyde Park to Trafalgar Square it was 'Maggie, Maggie, Maggie, out, out, out' was the A contingent of women garment workers had their own version of the same One section of the demonstration kept up a fairly rousing rendering of the Red Flag — it certainly sounded more militant sung on the way to Trafalgar Square than it does when they sing it at the end of Labour Party conferences.

The biggest contingent on the march was undoubtedly the Transport and General Workers' Union, but the miners, steelworkers, print unions, textile workers, and public sector were also well represented. It was a real parade of the British trade union movement as all the different banners and placards went But as usual the TUC leaders had marched them all the way to Trafaigar