However this campaign, jointly organised by the Stop the War Coalition, the Muslim Association of Britain, the Socialist Alliance, CND and various other institutions, was paid mere lip service; the slogan "Don't Attack Iraq" became irrelevant as students and workers up and down the country (and across the world) walked out of schools and businesses in protest against the fact that Iraq had indeed been attacked
For decades now, demonstrations and protest marches have been recognised as a valid form of political action, although as mentioned earlier the results can differ wildly. It might be reasonable to suggest that core government policy of the kind that entails international co-operation and implications are much more difficult to alter. It soon became clear with the invasion of Iraq that the plans had been premeditated by the coalition's American leadership for quite some time. The fact that so many protestors turned up to the London protests suggests that there is another motivating factor involved, quite apart from redirecting governmental policy; the protestors simply wanted their presence, and so their opinion also, to be seen clearly by an international audience. The slogan "Not In My Name" richly symbolises this feeling. By their attendance at nationally organised demonstrations, protestors are setting themselves apart from those who would wield power and dictate for the few.
So with the anti-war protests, and the more recent demonstrations during President Bush's controversial state visit to the UK, there has been a huge example of collective behaviour that has organised itself right across the recognised cleavages of modern society. The statue of Bush that was symbolically toppled in Trafalgar Square was created by a group of local schoolchildren under the direction of sympathetic teaching staff, again the Muslim Association of Britain was highly involved, as were those to the left of New Labour: the Socialist Alliance and the Socialist Worker's Party.
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