England, UK. 8.4.2000. Margate. National Front demonstration against immigrants and asylum seekers.
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England, UK. 26.9.2000. Brighton. Labour Party Conference. Three former Labour leaders. L-R Neil Kinnock, Michael Foot & former Prime Minister James Callaghan, about to hear the next Labour Prime Minister Tony Blair address conference..
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England, UK .7.5.1999. London . London Vigil of Remembrance and Defiance one week after the nail bombing of the Soho pub Admiral Duncan.
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England, UK. 21.2.1997. London. 'Bridgewater Three' freed. L-R James Robinson and cousins Vincent and Michael Hickey, who were jailed for 18 years for the murder of 13-year-old paper boy Carl Bridgewater, were released after the Court of Appeal ruled their convictions unsafe..Since they were jailed in 1979, the men had always protested their innocence but it took six separate police inquiries and three full appeals for them to walk free.
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England, UK. 28.11.1994. Claremont Road, waiting for the bailiffs. Claremont Road was the last stand of anti-motorway protesters blocking the path of the M11 link road, which was about to flatten these houses.
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England, UK. 9.10.1994. London. Hyde Park. Demonstration against the Criminal Justice Bill. Police horses leaving the park after charging into the crowd.
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England, UK. 6.5.1993. London . Neville and Doreen Lawrence, parents of teenager Stephen Lawrence murdered by racists, meet Nelson Mandela.
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England, UK. London. 11.7.1977 . Grunwick dispute. Arthur Scargill leads the Yorkshire miners past the gates of Grunwick during a strike for trade union recognition and against low pay by mainly asian women at a photographic processing plant.
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England, UK. 18.12.1994. Guildford. Peter Tatchell & OutRage demonstrators waylay the Bishop of Guildford as he arrives for his enthronement..
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England, UK . 22.2.1992. London . A year after 15-year old Rolan Adams was murdered in Thamesmead, on February 21st 1991, protestors march on the BNP HQ/bookshop in Welling calling for it to be closed down..
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England, UK. 24.8.1991. London. British National Party rally as a ‘National Black Caucus’ demonstration marched against racist attacks in Bermondsey.
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England , UK . London . 31.3.1990 . Poll Tax Riot . Demonstrators marched to a protest rally in Trafalgar Square against the Tory government's Community Charge, followed by street fighting with police.
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England, UK . Cardiff. 13.11.1989. The Ugly Mudflats of Cardiff Bay. Environmental opponents of the barrage scheme, which has now turned these tidal waters into an inland lake, were told they were protecting 'ugly mudflats’.
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England, UK . 18.7.99. Nr. Watlington , Oxfordshire . Demonstrators invade and damage a test site of a genetically modified ( GM ) crop of oilseed rape .
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England, UK. 5.10.1988. Blackpool . The Labour Party's four black and Asian MPs, elected to Parliament in 1987, L-R Paul Boateng, Bernie Grant, Keith Vaz and Diane Abbott, calling for the creation of separate black sections at the party's annual conference...
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England, UK. 12.1.1988. "Homes for votes" scandal. Westminster tenants and residents protest at the opening of Westminster City Council’s Home Ownership Centre, and the Designated Sales policy of Tory Council Leader Shirley Porter and Housing Chair Councillor Peter Hartley, accused of gerrymandering of the electorate by selling off council housing
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The New Cross Massacre Action Committee's 'Black People's Day of Action' march, protesting against indifference to the deaths of thirteen young black people in the New Cross Fire of January 1981. Anger sparked by far the largest demonstration of black people to date. Arson was initially suspected, inquests later delivered open verdicts. England, UK. 2.3.1981. London.
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27.11.1976. London. Joan Baez and Irish Peace People meet the press. After a Peace People march thousands strong Joan Baez sang “We Shall Overcome” to a rally in Trafalgar Square.
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England, UK .1.8. 2005. London. Brian Haw and first arrests under the exclusion order for the area around Parliament under the Serious and Organised Crime and Police Act.
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England, UK. 5.10.2022. Birmingham. Conservative Party Conference, Wednesday. Greenpeace UK head of public affairs Rebecca Newsom (L) and policy officer
Ami McCarthy interrupt Prime Minister Liz Truss’s speech to conference.
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England,UK. 8.7.1983 Greenham Common. Peace Camp women protest against cruise missiles along the torn down perimeter fence of the US base.
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England, UK. 22.5.2021. London. National Demonstration for Palestine. At nearly 180,000 strong the largest Palestinian demonstration in British history. Organised by the Palestine Solidarity Campaign..
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England, UK. 14.3.1991. London, Old Bailey. Release of the Birmingham Six. Chris Mullin MP, who campaigned as a journalist for their release with his book ‘Error of Judgment: The Truth About the Birmingham Pub Bombings’, and subsequently as MP for Sunderland South, with the six outside the Old Bailey after their release. Left to Right, William Power,Gerry Hunter,Richard McIlkenny, Chris Mullin MP, Hugh Callaghan, Paddy Hill and John Walker. .Their murder convictions, a miscarriage of justice, based on forced confessions and unreliable forensic evidence, had been quashed after 16 years in prison for a crime they did not commit, the 1974 IRA’s Birmingham pub bombings in which 21 people were killed and another 182 injured..
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England, UK .16.4.1990. London . Wembley Stadium. Mandela Concert. Nelson & Winnie Mandela arrive onstage after his release from prison.
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England, UK. 1.9.2020. London. Extinction Rebellion Returns. The Red Brigade at the Ghandi statue, Parliament Square..
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1985. Tanzania. School in an ANC guerrilla camp, heralding the dawn of a new South Africa where these children are now free and equal citizens.
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RIP Mike Grindley 1937 - 2023. He led the GCHQ trade unionists to victory. Here at the annual GCHQ march & rally for the 14 Government Communications Headquarters employees sacked for trade union membership. 28.1.1989.
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England, UK. 14.3.1988. London. NHS pay strike by nurses & other health workers, the day before and on budget day (15.3.1988)...
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England, UK .22.2.2020. London. Protestors march in support of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange demanding he be released from Belmarsh Prison and spared extradition to the US..
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England, UK. 16.1.2023. London. Minimum Service Levels Bill - trade union protest for the right to strike, organised by RMT.
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Greta Thunberg addresses the Fridays For Future marchers in George Square, Glasgow during COP26, the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference.5.11.2021
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England 8.6.2016. Bournemouth. GMB trade union. GMB President Mary Turner embraces Hillsborough Family Support Group campaigners Sue Roberts, whose brother died in the disaster ( left ) Margaret Aspinall whose son died in the disaster ( right ).
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England, UK . September/October.1984. Blackpool. Robert Maxwell at the Labour Party Conference.
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England, UK. 15.12.2022. Leeds. Leeds General Infirmary. First national nurses’ strike, Royal College of Nursing ( RCN ) members on strike for a 19% pay rise.
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Wapping. Press photographer Andrew Moore carried away unconscious after being truncheoned by police during clashes with pickets outside Rupert Murdoch's News International plant. England, UK. 3.5.1986. London. ..
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England, UK .8.10. 2007. London. Tony Benn before joining Stop the War Coalition march to Parliament overturning a ban on the demonstration.
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England, UK .15.6.1974. London . Red Lion Square. During clashes between police and demonstrators protesting against a National Front march, student Kevin Gately is carried away unconscious, dying, as the coroner put it, from a blow to the head consistent with a "blunt instrument". Widely reported at the time, though there is no conclusive proof, to be a police truncheon.
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25.10. 08. London. The mother of Jean Charles de Menezes at the annual UFFC march of the friends and the families of people who have died in police custody, prisons and psychiatric hospitals.
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England, UK .2.10.2018. Birmingham. Boris Johnson at Conservative Party Conference..
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England, UK .3.10.2018. Birmingham . Dancing Queen Theresa May steps out to address the Conservative Party Conference ..
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England, UK. 6.9.2022. Leeds Crown Court. Barristers on indefinite strike called by the Criminal Bar Association (CBA) demanding a 25 per cent rise in legal aid fees paid to barristers representing defendants who could not otherwise afford lawyers.
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England, UK . 26.9.2018. Liverpool . Jeremy Corbyn arrives to address Labour Party Conference..
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England, UK . 15.4.2019. London, Parliament square. The Red Brigade Funeral on a procession for extinct and endangered creatures as Extinction Rebellion block five central London landmarks.
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COP26 Coalition’s Global Day of Action for Climate Justice march during the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference, COP26. Glasgow, 6.11.2021...
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England, UK . 11.5.2002. Potters Bar . Potters Bar train crash - scene the day after the derailment ( 10.5.2002 ) in which seven people died.
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