Defiant pride march in Birmingham
by Geoff DexterAbout 1,000 joined Birmingham’s LGBT Pride parade, watched by a crowd of about 70,000.
A protest block of students and trade unionists chanted, “Pride is a protest, pride not profit” in defiance of the bar bosses who are charging for the main event.
Hundreds signed the Socialist Workers Party’s petition saying we will not to be divided by the far right after Woolwich.