Campaigners are planning to organise mass protests at the Labour Party Conference.

Several national unions have backed plans to protest against redundancies, pay cuts, attacks on pensions or on trade union rights when the Govenment holds it’s party conference in Brighton in September.

Many other activists, including from the anti-war movement, the Campaign Against Climate Change and pensioner groups are also expected to join the campaigns.

One protest organised by the University and Colleges Union (UCU) and National Union of Journalists (NUJ) will be held on Sunday September 27 and midday.

Members of the UCU will be protesting against thousands of jobs threatened across the sector.

They plan to march outside the Brighton Centre during the afternoon.

A spokesman for the UCU said: “We are expecting a good turnout.

“But we don't know the exact numbers yet.

“The reason we are lobbying the Government is about the allocation of public funds.

“Particularly job cuts in higher and further education.

“We are still in negotiations to finalise the route we will be marching.

“We are expecting to get all the unions, the NUT, UCU and NUJ along.

“The churches of the trade unions each have their own concerns they will be expressing.

“It's a broad collaboration saying it is really important for the Government to change their decisions and improve the economy.”

Other unions are believed to be encouraging their regional branches to join the protest.

A spokeswoman for the Communication Workers Uniion (CWU)said: “We have a delegation that goes down every year.”

Union branches and activists from across the country have been booking transport to Brighton to take part in the protests.

Several union bodies, including Waltham Forest trades council and Islington National Union of Teachers are believed to have made block bookings for the train.

A group calling themselves Right To Work is organising transport from London Victoria to Brighton on the day of the protests.

On their website they said: “Instead of saving jobs, the government is pressing ahead with policies that threaten jobs from Royal Mail to local government to the civil service to the NHS.

“Individual unions and the TUC should be leading the fight against job losses by opposing redundancies, resisting closures and demanding a transformation of government policy.”

For more information go to www.righttowork.org.uk.