Enough is Enough Kirklees called a 400-strong protest march in Huddersfield on 28 January about the cost of living. (Kirklees is the Borough Huddersfield is in.)
The march got a good reception. Chants included: “The right to strike is under attack/ Stand up, fight back” and “Energy Prices on the Rise/ Let’s fight back and nationalise”.
Along with trade unionists (though not union contingents, apart from one Unison banner and a UCU group) were campaigners (many of them young) to save leisure centres and pools in Batley, Deighton in Huddersfield and Slaithwaite.
There were short speeches from a range of unions, a couple of the leisure centre campaigns, the Labour Party PPC for Huddersfield, and a Green councillor.
Unfortunately few of the speakers addressed how we escalate the struggles. People from Socialist Alternative led chants of “What do we need / A general strike”, but their paper seems a bit fuzzy on what this means.
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