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David Hoffman. Introduction: Duncan Campbell

‘Women were grabbed and dragged away like sacks’ – a history of British protest in pictures

POLL TAX PROTEST, TRAFALGAR SQUARE, LONDON, 31 MARCH 1990
Poll tax protest, Trafalgar Square, London, 31 March 1990. All photographs: David Hoffman Photo Library Photograph: David Hoffman Photo Library

Duncan Campbell on the power of protest

From the suffragettes at the start of the last century to Reclaim the Night in the 1970s; from the battle of Cable Street against the British Union of Fascists in 1936 to the Anti-Nazi League marches four decades later; from the million marchers against the Iraq war in 2003 in London to the massive turnouts across the country two decades later against the war in Gaza, protest has been a vital and constant part of the fabric of British society.

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