anti-war protest

From the archive: a cold march

Several hundred people turn out on a freezing Saturday in Whitechapel to march in protest against British and American troops in Falluja and the number of people being killed there. The march begins in Altab Ali Park, where Whitechapel Muslims and people from across London and the UK gather to hear speakers criticise New Labour's Iraq policy and the violence in Falluja, and to demand that the western troops leave Iraq.

Large groups of young Muslim men and women gather with banners, flags and loudspeakers. They say that they hope that news of the turnout get to Downing Street, and that they will keep coming, because they can't be ignored forever. Members of one group have dressed in orange like Guantanamo Bay prisoners and chained themselves together in a row.