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		</div><p>Thousands of people gathered in central London to celebrate workers’ achievements at a May Day rally where the UK Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn condemned anti-Semitism.</p>
<p>Mr Corbyn joined the crowds at Clerkenwell Green in London to mark the international day honouring workers.</p>
<p>Corbyn addressed workers from the top of a red London bus and said the British Labour movement stood “united”.</p>
<p>“We stand in solidarity now against the growth of the Far Right in Europe.”<br />
Frances O’Grady, general secretary of the TUC union, wished the crowd a happy May Day.</p>
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<p>The rally celebrates “what was won by workers campaigning over many years” – including the National Health Service, education, pensions and affordable housing, which organisers claimed were under attack by the austerity agenda.</p>
<p>With placards brandishing slogans such as “Cameron must go”, the rally marched to Trafalgar Square where more speakers addressed hundreds of workers.</p>
<p>The UK&#8217;s Shadow chancellor John McDonnell was expected to speak at Clerkenwell Green with Corbyn, but is attending another May Day rally in Glasgow.</p>
<p>A brass band played as the rally marched through the streets of London, along the Strand, to Trafalgar Square.</p>
<p>Workers held placards representing dozens of unions, including Unite and the RMT. Many held banners and placards calling for Prime Minister David Cameron to resign.</p>
<p>There was a large contingent calling for international solidarity on human rights and trade union rights. Several others held placards in support of junior doctors.</p>
<p>At one point, the rally was stalled as it passed along the Strand where a group from Unite set off red smoke flares.</p>
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<p>Junior doctor Yannis Gourtsoyannis told the May Day rally at Trafalgar Square that the NHS would be the site of the last stand against austerity.</p>
<p>“Social democracy in the UK began with the inception of the NHS in 1948,” Dr Gourtsoyannis said.</p>
<p>“So too will the NHS be the site of Britain’s last stand against the all-consuming forces for austerity and so too will the NHS be a catalyst for a wider workers’ movement to defend what is good about this country.”</p>
<p>He pleaded with the rally to not let the NHS fail.<br />
“We need you and you need us,” he said.</p>
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