ABSTRACT
This chapter assesses the heterogeneity of anti-austerity protests thus demonstrating the coalition's potential to mobilize cross-class and cross-issue coalitions. It examines this issue by focusing on similarities and differences across three major austerity protests in London: the student demonstration Fund Our Future (FoF); Occupy London; and the Trade Union Congress (TUC) March for the Alternative. Anti-austerity protests in low income countries where structural adjustment programs had the effect of depressing the incomes and living standards of significant sectors of the population are well documented. The formation of organizational coalitions is considered an important factor in the successful mobilization of diverse movement constituencies near universal objective of protest organizers. Coalitions between labor unions and community organizations are vital for union revitalization and have resulted in social movement unionism. The FoF was organized by the National Union of Students (NUS ) and University and College Union (UCU) in central London on 10 November 2010 and involved a march.
