A wave of protests will be held on Saturday to highlight the impact of the cost of living crisis on workers and their families.
The People's Assembly has co-ordinated hundreds of local and regional demonstrations, supported by trade unions, with people planning to take to the streets across the country.
Laura Pidcock, National Secretary of the People's Assembly, said: "There is real anger at this growing crisis. Working people could not be working harder and yet life is getting so much more difficult.
"People can see clearer than ever the inequality in our society, that while there are companies making massive profits and the richest individuals are getting so much richer, everybody else is having to suffer, making very difficult decisions to try and get by.
"Older people will be cold in their homes, people will be struggling to feed their children, when none of this is a crisis of their making.
Meanwhile, the Government sits by and does nothing to help the people. So, we will be out on the streets saying enough is enough."
Sharon Graham, general secretary of Unite, said: "This crisis was not caused by working people and we are not going to take wage cuts to pay for it.
"Why should the public always bail out the markets and policy makers? Where firms can pay, they should pay and under my watch Unite will unashamedly continue to protect the living standards of its members.
"Demonstrations are springing up because people are fed up of rich men telling them that they have to pay for boardroom greed and colossal market failure."
Fran Heathcote, president of the Public and Commercial Services union, said: "Low-paid workers cannot and will not pay for the Government's problems.
"The hike in heating bills, fuel, transport costs and National Insurance contributions, at the same time as pay is held down and pensions are being attacked, leaves most workers with a real cost of living crisis."
Members of Unite who have been involved in industrial action will speak at the protest in Manchester.
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