Last Saturday, somewhere between 400,000 and 500,000 Brits took to the streets of London to oppose government spending cuts. It is being described as the single largest rally in the U.K. since the 2003 rallies against the war in Iraq, and the largest labour organized rally in more than 20 years. 

Toronto photographer, and frequent rabble.ca contributor John Maclennan was there, and shares these images from the day. See many more images from the march here.

Cuts don't work

Brits do it, Aussies do it,
Even the Japanese do it,
Let's do it, let's … form a coalition!

We can fall in love, too. But the first order of business really ought to be getting rid of Stephen Harper and his odious so-called Conservatives.

The papers say the American forces of Operation Khanjar ('Dagger') are meeting only pockets of resistance in southern Helmand while the Brits are engaging in more fighting in their parallel operation in Lashkar Gah called Panchai Palang ('Panther's Claw'). Not only fighting, but dying too: in the past 10 days some 15 British soldiers have been killed. Considering the history of the US Marines in Helmand province (more on this below), we should not be surprised that occupation soldiers are having such a tough time.