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I attended a protest march in London yesterday in opposition to the wars currently being engaged by the UK. These photos are available in a Flickr set.

Crowds at Trafalgar Square

Manchester University Student Union sent two coach-loads of people.

A temporary stage was set up.

Emotive slogans.

Tens of thousands of people flooded Trafalgar Square and the surrounding area, but what little media coverage there was of this played the numbers down.

The fact that McDonalds just carried on regardless was fairly amusing.

Damn straight.

The majority of placards at the protest were produced in the thousands by organisations (I carried one from the CND), so more sincere, hand-made versions stood out well.

Final phase of the rally at Westminster.

CPGBs started chanting about revolution. Great to see people enthused, but that wasn’t really the topic of the day chaps.

I noticed these placards lying around at the very end, seemed to sum up the feeling of the day.

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Just got back from this - not a bad turn-out, maybe 100 people. Police were actually pretty pleasant from what I could tell, got a little aggressive about use being on public property at the start but nothing remarkable.
We basically stood and chanted for about an hour, then left, nothing eventful since she’d apparently been in the hotel the whole day.

The only thing that riled me was that there were nearly as many people from the Manchester SU (who I went with) as there were from Liverpool! I realise the populations are different, but if Manchester can transport that many, where were the Liverpudlians?

Once the police had pushed us off the Liner Hotel’s property.

Placards and horses.

The placards were supplied by the SWP. The one on the right reads “get your rosaries off my ovaries” - great slogan.

Sorry the pictures are so blurry - not much light and being in the middle of a crowd makes it hard to frame a shot properly.

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