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Protesting against George W. Bush in 2008

This is a list of protests and protest movements in the United Kingdom. Protest in the UK has concerned issues such as suffrage in the 19th and early 20th centuries, parliamentary reform from the Chartists to the present day, poverty, wages and working conditions, fuel prices, war, human rights, immigration (both for and against), fathers' rights, LGBTQ rights and climate change. In Northern Ireland, protest marches have been particularly contentious, including Bloody Sunday.

Marches by number

No Date Protest Cause Organisers Location Organisers' estimate Police estimate (where known) Ref
1 15 February 2003 Stop the War Iraq Stop the War coalition London 1,200,000 750,000
2 23 March 2019 Put it to the People march Second EU referendum People's Vote, European Movement UK, Open Britain London 1,200,000 400,000
3 19 October 2019 Let Us Be Heard Second EU referendum People's Vote, European Movement UK, Open Britain London 1,000,000 N/A
4 20 October 2018 People's Vote march Second EU referendum People's Vote, European Movement UK, Open Britain London 700,000 450,000
5 23 September 2002 Liberty & Livelihood Hunting and countryside causes Countryside Alliance London 407,791 400,000
6 26 March 2011 March for the Alternative Cuts Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament London 400,000 250,000
7 22 October 1983 CND march for peace Nuclear weapons Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament London 400,000 200,000
8 24 October 1981 CND march for peace Nuclear weapons Trades Union Congress London 250,000 250,000
9 31 March 1990 Poll tax Poll tax All Britain anti-Poll Tax Federation London 200,000 40,000
10 22 May 2021 PSC March for Palestine Palestine Palestine Solidarity Campaign London 180,000 N/A
11 26 March 2022 UK with Ukraine Ukraine war European Movement UK, Mayor of London London 150,000 N/A
12 1 April 1961 Aldermaston march Nuclear weapons Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament London to Berkshire 150,000 150,000
13 18 November 2001 Stop the war Afghanistan Stop the war coalition London 100,000 15,000
14 15 February 2003 Stop the War Iraq Stop the War coalition Glasgow 100,000 50,000
15 31 January 2009 Tamil Eelam Tamil rights British Tamil Forum London 100,000 50,000
16 17 March 1968 Grosvenor Square, peace march Vietnam War Vietnam Solidarity Campaign London 80,000 10,000
17 28 March 1959 Aldermaston march Nuclear weapons Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament London to Berkshire 60,000 60,000
18 10 November 2010 Fund Our Future: Stop Education Cuts Education cuts National Union of Students London 52,000 30,000
19 28 February 2020 Climate Strike Climate Change Bristol Youth Strike 4 Climate Bristol 35,000 15,000
20 28 March 2009 March for Jobs, Justice & Climate G20 Put People First London 35,000 35,000

Suffrage and democracy

A British suffragette

Poverty

Make Poverty History marchers in Edinburgh in 2005

Labour disputes

Miners' strike rally in London, 1984
Picket outside BBC Bristol in 2006
See Category:Labour disputes in the United Kingdom

Rights

Race and immigration

March against the National Front in Brick Lane, 1978
See also Category:Race riots in the United Kingdom

Taxation

Anti-Poll Tax graffiti

Environment

Flash mob protest at Heathrow Terminal 5
See also: Environmental direct action in the United Kingdom

Animal rights

War

Main article: Peace movement § United Kingdom
Protesters against the war on Iraq

Nuclear

Religion

Protest by Anonymous in London in 2008 against Scientology

Art and culture

Stuckist demonstration outside the White Cube gallery

Foreign policy

Pro-Tibet protesters at Olympic torch relay in London in 2008

Anti-capitalist/anti-globalisation

Black bloc at the 2009 G20 protests

Troubles in Northern Ireland

Main article: The Troubles
Memorial march in 2007 for Bloody Sunday

Other

Laws governing protest

Forward Intelligence Team at a Lebanon war protest in London in 2006

Policing

Riot police at the 2009 G20 protest in London

Protest organisations

Protest websites

See also

References

  1. ^ @euromove (March 26, 2022). "BREAKING: Over 150,000 people confirmed to be marching with European Movement UK and @MayorofLondon on the march fo…" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  2. ^ a b "The fight for the right to object". 2009-07-06. Retrieved 2019-07-29.

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