Campaigners have booked 500 seats on a chartered “rage train” transporting protesters to a demonstration on the first day of the Labour Party Conference.

The Right to Work campaign said it expects more than the predicted 1,000 people will march on Brighton seafront on Sunday to pressure the Government to protect jobs and education and end overseas military action.

Charlie Kimber is organising the chartered train from London.

He said: “We are going to the conference to demand that ordinary people shouldn’t pay the price for a crisis which isn’t of their making.

“We want to bring together the different strands of resistance, againt the war, redundancies, factory closures, and the consensus that there will have to be huge cuts to pay for the banks’ bailout.

“We want to start the conference off by showing an opposition to that sort of politics.”

The demonstration is being jointly supported by the University and College Union, the National Union of Journalists, the National Union of Teachers, the Public and Commercial Services Union, rail union RMT, the Communication Workers Union, the Stop The War Coalition and Unite Against Fascism.

Supporters are gathering in Madeira Drive at 12.30pm before marching to the conference site in King’s Road.

The “rage train” is leaving London Victoria at 10.30am for Brighton and returning at 6.30pm.

Transport for protesters is also being organised from as far away as Scotland, Wales and northern England.

At midday on Tuesday smaller-scale demonstrations are expected by pensioners’ pressure groups, again with support travelling from Scotland and Wales.

Sussex Police has issued a statement welcoming conference delegates to Brighton and Hove.

It said the city should be able to continue with business as usual despite the security operation and potential protests.

It said: “Whilst the conference is important to The Labour Party, Sussex Police also recognises that it is an important opportunity for members of the public to exercise their democratic right of lobbying and protest.

“We have sought to engage with anyone seeking to organise a protest at conference in order to facilitate this activity and maximise the safety of all involved.

“A busy of programme of such activity is anticipated and some consequential disruption to traffic flows in the city can be expected, however steps to manage the traffic and to mitigate these consequential impacts have been taken.

“The business of the city remains 'Open as usual' and there is no reason for anyone thinking of visiting or who works in the city to not carry on with their plans throughout the party conference week.”

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