WSWS reporters spoke to some of those attending Saturday’s mass protest in London against Israel’s genocide in Gaza. The protest was the 30th national rally against Gaza’s ongoing destruction, which proceeds with the backing of Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s Labour government.
The 200,000 strong demonstration assembled in Russell Square in the north of the capital, marched through central London, and ended with a rally in Whitehall—adjacent to the prime ministers’ Downing Street residence.
The rally took place just a few hundred yards from Parliament Square, as the Metropolitan Police mounted an hours-long operation resulting in almost 900 arrests of peaceful protesters in an extraordinary assault on democratic rights. The vast majority (857) of people were arrested for their opposition to the proscription—under the Terrorism Act—of the Palestine Action campaign group. See WSWS article here.
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