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Twenty years on from Iraq don’t forget Bush and Blair’s crimes
KEN LIVINGSTONE salutes the millions who marched against the war and looks back at how the London mayor’s office was able to aid the movement even as the Westminster government carried out its bloody invasion

IN my time as leader of the Greater London Council (GLC) and mayor of London, I had many occasions to be proud of the majority of ordinary Londoners, who again and again showed much better judgement on key political and social issues of the day than our political (mis-)leaders in Westminster.

One such example was in the run-up to the Iraq war in 2003, the 20th anniversary of which was marked last week.

At the GLC we had declared 1983 a “peace year” and 20 years on, progressives around the world again found ourselves needing to stand up to those who wished to make war.

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