Thousands filled Trafalgar Square demanding an end to Israel’s genocide in Gaza and the drive to war in the Middle East.
Pro-Palestine, anti-war protestors filled Trafalgar Square in central London on Saturday (October 19) to demand an immediate end to the genocide in Gaza, for Israel to take its hands off Lebanon, for the drive to war with Iran to be stopped and for the US and UK to halt all arms sales to Benjamin Netanyahu’s government.
Many brought flowers and children’s toys to commemorate the victims of Israel’s slaughter of tens of thousands of civilians in Gaza, the majority of them women and children, according to the Stop the War Coalition.
Called by the six organisations behind the national Palestine marches, the London rally was part of a day of action up and down the country, with marches, die-ins and protests in many towns and cities.
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Among the speakers in Trafalgar Square were the British journalist and author Gary Younge, John McDonnell MP, PCS union general secretary Fran Heathcote, NEU president Phil Clarke, comedian and author Alexei Sayle and Ahmed Alnaouq, a journalist who has lost more than 20 members of his family in Gaza.
After the rally, people laid toys and flowers at the gates of Downing Street, in a demand that Keir Starmer stops looking away from the horrors in Gaza, including the burning alive last week of displaced people sheltering in tents outside a hospital.
Chris Nineham, Stop the War vice chair, told the rally: “What is so sickening and disturbing is that Netanyahu, Biden and our government have no red lines. Children are being burnt alive, populations buried under rubble, and war with Iran looms, and yet the West continues to support Israel.
“This great movement has already defied threats to ban demonstrations, unseated a Home Secretary, forced the government to cut arms sales and to agree to arrest Netanyahu should he ever visit.
“We have, however, much more to do. We must deepen and broaden the movement and we must escalate. We have to make it impossible for our government to continue supporting this barbarity.”
There have been 20 pro-Palestine national demonstrations since October 2023, which have seen hundreds of thousands of people on the streets of London. The next national march is on November 2.
There have also been thousands of local protests, all kinds of direct action, student encampments, an escalated boycott and divestment campaign, and a series of trade union-backed national workplace days of action.
The organisations behind the national demos are: Palestine Solidarity Campaign, Stop the War Coalition, Palestinian Forum in Britain, Muslim Association of Britain, Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and Friends of Al Aqsa.
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Thousands filled Trafalgar Square demanding an end to Israel’s genocide in Gaza
Thousands filled Trafalgar Square demanding an end to Israel’s genocide in Gaza and the drive to war in the Middle East.
Pro-Palestine, anti-war protestors filled Trafalgar Square in central London on Saturday (October 19) to demand an immediate end to the genocide in Gaza, for Israel to take its hands off Lebanon, for the drive to war with Iran to be stopped and for the US and UK to halt all arms sales to Benjamin Netanyahu’s government.
Many brought flowers and children’s toys to commemorate the victims of Israel’s slaughter of tens of thousands of civilians in Gaza, the majority of them women and children, according to the Stop the War Coalition.
Called by the six organisations behind the national Palestine marches, the London rally was part of a day of action up and down the country, with marches, die-ins and protests in many towns and cities.
Buy Cruel Britannia in print here. Buy the Cruel Britannia ebook here. Or just click on the image!
Among the speakers in Trafalgar Square were the British journalist and author Gary Younge, John McDonnell MP, PCS union general secretary Fran Heathcote, NEU president Phil Clarke, comedian and author Alexei Sayle and Ahmed Alnaouq, a journalist who has lost more than 20 members of his family in Gaza.
After the rally, people laid toys and flowers at the gates of Downing Street, in a demand that Keir Starmer stops looking away from the horrors in Gaza, including the burning alive last week of displaced people sheltering in tents outside a hospital.
Chris Nineham, Stop the War vice chair, told the rally: “What is so sickening and disturbing is that Netanyahu, Biden and our government have no red lines. Children are being burnt alive, populations buried under rubble, and war with Iran looms, and yet the West continues to support Israel.
“This great movement has already defied threats to ban demonstrations, unseated a Home Secretary, forced the government to cut arms sales and to agree to arrest Netanyahu should he ever visit.
“We have, however, much more to do. We must deepen and broaden the movement and we must escalate. We have to make it impossible for our government to continue supporting this barbarity.”
There have been 20 pro-Palestine national demonstrations since October 2023, which have seen hundreds of thousands of people on the streets of London. The next national march is on November 2.
There have also been thousands of local protests, all kinds of direct action, student encampments, an escalated boycott and divestment campaign, and a series of trade union-backed national workplace days of action.
The organisations behind the national demos are: Palestine Solidarity Campaign, Stop the War Coalition, Palestinian Forum in Britain, Muslim Association of Britain, Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and Friends of Al Aqsa.
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