LONDON — Demonstrators jostled with police while trying to force their way into the Royal Exchange building next to the Bank of England during a demonstration Friday against the British government's bank bailout.

After being turned back, the protesters ran through nearby city streets and pushed passed a small group of officers who tried to stop them. There were no arrests, and no one was injured, according to police.

About several hundred people, mostly students and Socialist Worker Party activists, turned out for the late-afternoon protest against the government's 50 billion pound (U.S.$86 billion) plan to partly nationalize major banks, while guaranteeing a further 250 billion pounds (U.S.$431 billion) of bank loans.

"Whose money? Our Money!" chanted the protesters, some of whom carried placards reading "Why should we pay for their crisis?"

The building the protesters tried to enter had been a center of commerce from the 1500s, but is now a shopping center.

Many directed their anger at the city's bankers.

"They do nothing," Martin Smith said. "If times are good they get money. If times are bad they get money."