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How the mass Iraq protest of February 15 2003 was built
Even some on the left told us it was impossible to organise any kind of anti-war protest against Bush and Blair’s militarism. But reality proved to be very different. LINDSEY GERMAN of the Stop the War Coalition explains
BUILD-UP: Stop the War Coalition holds a mass demonstration in Westminster to protest against government plans to a proposed military strike against Iraq. October 2002.
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IT WAS perhaps two weeks before the mass demonstration of February 15 that those of us organising began to ask: could it be a million strong?
We had always dismissed such predictions before but now it was becoming clear that this mobilisation was going to be very, very big indeed.
On the day it exceeded even those expectations, with an estimated 1.5 to two million in London, around 80,000 in Glasgow where Tony Blair was attending the Scottish Labour Party conference, and hundreds of smaller events around the country for those unable to make the journey to the big demonstrations.
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