ACG flags were present at both the demo outside the Home Office in support of migrant farm workers on Friday, January 24th and at the demo on Tuesday January 28th outside the Marriott hotel on Park Lane, where an dinner for arms dealers takes place every year. London ACG members and supporters turned out for both.
Migrant farmworkers staged the protest ‘Justice is not seasonal!’ to demand an end to forced labour, exploitation, and shoddy treatment in UK agriculture. The protest was organised by workers who had come to the UK in 2023 as part of the government’s Seasonal Worker Scheme (SWS) which began in 2019 as a response to labour shortages on UK farms after Brexit.This marks the first time Seasonal Workers have organized a demonstration in central London.
The arms dealers make fat profits from dealing in death. At least 47,000 have been killed in Gaza, including 13,000 children. With the Russia- Ukraine war over 12,000 Ukrainian civilians and some 43,000 military personnel have died, whilst Russian casualties are estimated as high as 831,620 personnel. This is not to mention other wars around the world and the many injured, maimed , blinded, mentally traumatised and dispaced by war. Meanwhile these masters of war gorge themselves on a £250 dinner every year at the Marriott Grosvenor Hotel.