Tens of thousands of anti-austerity protesters marched through the U.K.’s northern city of Manchester on Sunday in a rally timed to coincide with the ruling Conservative Party’s annual conference. The Police and the Trades Union Congress (TUC) said about 60,000 people took part in the demonstration calling for an end to what it called the government’s “damaging program of austerity and their attacks on the rights of working people and their unions,” reports Agence France-Presse. The Conservative Party, headed by U.K.