Indian farmers march on London stock-exchange against free market economy.
Around 500 Indian farmers recently arrived in Europe as part of an ambitious initiative that aims to strongly criticise the free market, its backbone institutions, and its negative effects on economic and environmental conditions in poorer countries. The protesters in front of their bus at Spitalfields Markets. The group was much smaller than intended thanks to the British authorities who refused entry visas to the remaining 75 members of the London delegation, despite their papers being in order. Some skirmishes followed and 19 farmers were arrested. A Great British Welcome Tinged with an air of sadness, the walk continued in a strangely surreal fashion T hose that did make it across the channel, found few people waiting for them in London.