Taken from tomorrow's Guardian. Here's some of the best quotes:
Government attacks on public sector justify targeting 2012 Games, says Unite general secretary Len McCluskey
"If the Olympics provide us with an opportunity, then that's exactly one that we should be looking at," said McCluskey.
"Our very way of life is being attacked. By then this crazy health and social care bill may have been passed, so we are looking at the privatisation of our National Health Service. I believe the unions, and the general community, have got every right to be out protesting."
"Our parents and our grandparents, having defeated fascism in Europe, came back determined to build a land fit for heroes. They gave us the welfare state, the National Health Service, universal education. All of that is being attacked," he said. "I, for one, am not prepared to stand by and have my children or grandchildren say to me, what did you do when this was being taken away from us?"
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