This demonstration was nothing like the original Stop the War march. This one was a lot smaller and was an attempt to unify all sorts of disparate protest groups from across Europe under one banner; anti-war, anti-capitalism, anti-globalisation, anti-racism, anti-all sorts of things. They were protesting against everything and so ended up protesting against nothing.
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Nope, it didn't work. Only a few thousand people turned up, less than you would expect at bottom league football match, and the majority of marchers weren't even British; which kind of took the edge off their calls for changes in the British Government.
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The irony of a global, international coalition protesting against, er, globalised international business seemed lost on all of them
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And they were all so po-faced and humourless. The only intentional laugh all day came from a couple of blokes, sipping from cans of lager, trying to wind-up a nearby group of anti-globalisation protestors:
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'What do we want?'
'A quarter pounder'
'How do we want it?'
'With fries!'
.'What do we want?'
'A quarter pounder'
'How do we want it?'
'With fries!'
Full field report and photographs here:
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