Cardiff folk gathered on Queen Street to protest against cuts to services signalled by yesterday's comprehensive spending review.
Around 50 people waved banners and chanted near the Aneurin Bevan statue from 5.30pm.
They listened to speeches by Jake Griffiths, leader of the Wales Green party and Marianne Owens, vice chair of the Public and Commercial Services (PCS) Wales Committee.
Owens said: "We need to spread the message that we won't pay for a crisis that we haven't caused."
Other speakers included event organiser Seb Cooke, from Right to Work, who said: "The public services shouldn't suffer because of the banking crisis."
He also started off a chant: "They say cut back, we say fight back!..Tories, Tories, Tories, out, out, out!"
Edmund Schluessel, member of Cardiff University and College Union and Socialist Party Wales said last night's event was the start of bigger protests:
"We all know anger is there, I don't know anyone who is happy with the cuts. We have the steam of public anger, now we need to build a piston box and convert steam into useful work."
This Saturday a larger protest is due take place outside the City Hall and expected to attract protesters from across Wales.
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Guest bloggers Anna Roxelana and Mark Riley Cardwell are both studying journalism and Cardiff University.
