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A massive anti-austerity protest is heading for London this weekend this morning.

This is following recent protests also organised by The People's Assembly following the Queen's Speech and people protesting against proposed Tory cuts.

The demonstrations are happening all over the UK, but the main group will be in London.

Anti war factions, anti-racist and anti-fascist groups, along with protests on housing and changes to strike laws will meet in Central London for the huge event.

According to the protest's Facebook group, more than 71,000 people are set to descend on London. But why is it happening and how can you join in?

What famous faces might you expect to see tomorrow, too?

What is the protest about?

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It's an anti austerity protest organised by the group, The People's Assembly . It's going to be a march from the City, through to Westminster, in protest against the Conservative government and their policies.

Who is organising it?

The People's Assembly is a national campaign against cuts and austerity. It is a non partisan group which organises campaigns, liaises with similar movements in other countries resisting austerity measures and encourages a wider debate on how to protect the welfare state and develop and alternative programme for economic and social recovery.

Where does it start?

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The main meeting point for the protest is at 12pm on Saturday, June 20th , outside the Bank of England. Protesters will then march to Parliament Square which is outside the Houses of Parliament.

The People's Assembly says:"We'll be assembling the demonstration in the heart of the City of London right on the doorstep of the very people who created the crisis in the first place, the banks and their friends in Westminster."

"We demand that the bankers and elite should pay for the crisis and not the vast majority who had nothing to do with it"

There are protests going on locally, but transport to London has also been organised by the local sections of the People's Assembly, everywhere from Bristol, Barnsley, Brighton, to Manchester, Milton Keynes and Medway.

The scheduled march and speeches are set to end around 5.30pm.

Who's involved?

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Charlotte Church, who has been very vocal about her contempt for the Tory Government and attended a protest in Cardiff last month is involved in the protests on Saturday, along with Len McCluskey of Unite the Union, Shappi Khorsandi, comedian and activist, Sam Fairbairn, National Secretary of The People's Assembly and Amelia Womack, deputy leader of the Green Party.

Caroline Lucas, Owen Jones and Jeremy Corbyn will also be speaking.

Why is it happening?

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The People's Assembly are the same organisation that set up the protests after the Queen's Speech, which went from Westminster through parts of Central London after the State Opening of Parliament a couple of weeks ago. On the leaflet advertising the protest, it lists these reasons to why the protests are happening:

This government plan to cut 12b from welfare hitting the most vulnerable in our society hardest

The richest 1,000 people in this country doubled their wealth during the last parliament while the majorities living standards fell. How much more will they make during this one?

There has been a huge rise in zero hour contracts, precarious, low paid and part time work. Millions of people are not benefiting from supposed prosperity and there's record levels of personal debt

The Tories have presided over the worst housing crisis ever. They are friends of private landlords and property developers. Now they want to sell off even more social housing

The Tories accept all the priorities of privatisation and want to encourage international free trade deals which will destroy the public sector and make us all worse off

Our NHS is under direct attack: the government plans to dismantle the NHS and sell it off to private companies to run for profit.

Education is being destroyed: the government is threatening to raise university fees even higher than the 9k already charged. Academies and free schools are taking over denying any democratic control to our children's education

Migrants are facing a racist backlash and being blamed for all the problems they didn't create

Asha Mitra, who lives in Brixton and plans on heading down to the protests, says: " I think we need to send the message across to the Tory gov that we're not happy that they're in power because we don't believe that they're working towards our best interests (normal working class Britons)"

"And perhaps remind them that they're supposed to be looking after this country and WE are a part of it too. I remember the week after the election, I and so many friends of mine and people of my generation were so depressed and felt defeated at the result and are now terrified of the future of being under 5 more years of Conservatives."

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