Police clash with protesters in UK

Police have clashed with tens of thousands of Britons who took to the streets of London to protest against the increase in education costs and university tuition.

The Metropolitan police confirmed that 14 protesters and law enforcement officers were injured in the clashes that followed the rallies on Wednesday, the British press reported.

A police spokesman said a number of people have been arrested but refrained from disclosing further details.

Reports say that some students have occupied the London School of Economics building. Protesters also forced their way into Millbank Tower.

“This is about turning our colleges and universities from places of learning and opportunity into finishing schools for the rich,” Frances O’Grady deputy general secretary of the Trade Union Congress.

She was greeted with a roar of approval as she warned the government, “Don’t dare tell us we’re all in this together, because the bankers have been let off scot-free.”

According to President of the National Union of Students Aaron Porter, the march, attended by more than 50,000 people, was the biggest student demonstration in generations.

“We’re in the fight of our lives … we face an unprecedented attack on our future before it has even begun,” he told the protesters.

“They’re proposing barbaric cuts that would brutalize our colleges and universities,” he said.

This “miserable vision” would be resisted, Porter said, calling on students to take their protests to their constituencies, adding, “This is just the beginning … the resistance begins here.”