United States - Huge anti-war demonstration
WORKERS, NOV 2005 ISSUE
While anti-war marches in Britain are largely unreported, 24 September saw the largest anti-Iraq war demonstration in recent United States history.
Over 300,000 demonstrators from over 350 towns and cities marched on Washington DC, and encircled the White House.
Many demonstrators compared the Iraq invasion with the US rout in Vietnam, even though most of the marchers were born after the final defeat of the US thirty years ago.
The demonstration, acknowledged by the police as one of the largest in living memory, passed without incident, although the authorities provided protection for the motley pro-Bush counter-demonstration of less people.