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Mick Lynch speaking at the launch rally
The campaign has been launched by trade unions, community organisations and MPs.
The Enough is Enough website sets out five demands:
Launch Rally - Clapham Junction - Photo: Chris Ratcliffe
Bloomberg
It calls for the national minimum wage to rise to £15 an hour (from £9.18 for those aged 21 to 22), public sector pay rises above inflation, a return to the pre-April energy price cap and the nationalisation of energy companies.
It also demands rent controls, the building of more than 100,000 council houses a year and reversing the National Insurance contributions rise.
The campaign hopes to end food poverty by reinstating the £20-a-week universal credit uplift and universal free school meals, along with introducing a new independent regulatory body, which will hold the government to account.
The campaign's website says that it was founded by "trade unions and community organisations determined to push back against the misery forced on millions by rising bills, low wages, food poverty, shoddy housing - and a society run only for a wealthy elite".
Former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has supported the campaign, along with well-known public figures such as the journalist and author Caitlin Moran and the children's writer Michael Rosen.
More than 1,500 people attended the Enough is Enough launch rally at Clapham Junction, south London, on August 17. Mick Lynch, RMT general secretary, addressing the rally, said: "The working class is back... we refuse to be humbled, we refuse to wait for politicians and we refuse to be poor any more."
Zarah Sultana, the Labour MP for Coventry South, also appeared at the rally. She said that the campaign's demands were "wildly popular", adding: "Someone tell the leadership of the Labour Party."
Covering the evening, Tribune, said that the mood among speakers was "one of both optimism and anger: not just at how workers have been abandoned in this current crisis, but how they've been abandoned over decades".
Hundreds of thousands of people have signed up to the campaign via its website.
Moving forward, the campaign said it will be holding rallies across Britain in the coming weeks, and will be "organising community groups, supporting picket lines and taking action against companies profiteering from this crisis".
Enough is Enough will be holding these rallies:
Manchester (AUG 30)
Manchester Cathedral, M3 1SX
Tuesday, August 30, 7pm
Andy Burnham, GM Mayor
Mick Lynch, RMT
Dave Ward, CWU
Zarah Sultana MP
Eddie Dempsey, RMT
Liverpool (SEP 2)
St. George's Hall, L1 1JJ
Friday, September 2, 7pm
Ian Byrne MP
Dave Ward, CWU
Zarah Sultana MP
Eddie Dempsey, RMT
Limited tickets on the door
For further details on Enough is Enough Events and Demands see: