List of protests in the United Kingdom

This is a list of protests and protest movements in the United Kingdom. Protest in the UK has concerned issues such as suffrage in the 19th and early 20th centuries, parliamentary reform from the Chartists to the present day, poverty, wages and working conditions, fuel prices, war, human rights, immigration (both for and against), fathers' rights, LGBTQ rights and climate change. In Northern Ireland, protest marches have been particularly contentious, including Bloody Sunday.

Protesting against George W. Bush in 2008

Marches by number
No Date Protest Cause Organisers Location Organisers' estimate Police estimate (where known) Ref
1 15 February 2003 Stop the War Iraq Stop the War coalition London 1,500,000 750,000
2 23 March 2019 Put it to the People march Second EU referendum People's Vote, European Movement UK, Open Britain London 1,200,000 400,000
3 19 October 2019 Let Us Be Heard Second EU referendum People's Vote, European Movement UK, Open Britain London 1,000,000 N/A
4 20 October 2018 People's Vote march Second EU referendum People's Vote, European Movement UK, Open Britain London 700,000 450,000
5 23 September 2002 Liberty & Livelihood Hunting and countryside causes Countryside Alliance London 407,791 400,000
6 26 March 2011 March for the Alternative Cuts Trade Union Congress (TUC) London 400,000 250,000
7 22 October 1983 CND march for peace Nuclear weapons Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament London 400,000 200,000
8 21 October 2023 PSC March for Palestine Palestine Palestine Solidarity Campaign London 300,000[1] 100,000[2]
9 24 October 1981 CND march for peace Nuclear weapons Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament London 250,000 250,000
10 23 November 1985 Ulster Says No Opposition to Anglo-Irish Agreement Democratic Unionist Party, Ulster Unionist Party Belfast 200,000 100,000
11 31 March 1990 Poll tax Poll tax All Britain anti-Poll Tax Federation London 200,000 40,000
12 22 May 2021 PSC March for Palestine Palestine Palestine Solidarity Campaign London 180,000 N/A
13 14 October 2023 PSC March for Palestine Palestine Palestine Solidarity Campaign London 150,000 N/A
14 26 March 2022 UK with Ukraine Ukraine war European Movement UK, Mayor of London London 150,000 N/A
15 1 April 1961 Aldermaston march Nuclear weapons Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament London to Berkshire 150,000 150,000
16 18 November 2001 Stop the war Afghanistan Stop the war coalition London 100,000 15,000
17 15 February 2003 Stop the War Iraq Stop the War coalition Glasgow 100,000 50,000
18 31 January 2009 Tamil Eelam Tamil rights British Tamil Forum London 100,000 50,000
19 17 March 1968 Grosvenor Square, peace march Vietnam War Vietnam Solidarity Campaign London 80,000 10,000
20 28 March 1959 Aldermaston march Nuclear weapons Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament London to Berkshire 60,000 60,000
21 10 November 2010 Fund Our Future: Stop Education Cuts Education cuts National Union of Students London 52,000 30,000
22 28 February 2020 Climate Strike Climate Change Bristol Youth Strike 4 Climate Bristol 35,000 15,000
23 28 March 2009 March for Jobs, Justice & Climate G20 Put People First London 35,000 35,000

    Suffrage and democracy
    A British suffragette

    Poverty
    Make Poverty History marchers in Edinburgh in 2005

    Labour disputes
    Miners' strike rally in London, 1984
    Picket outside BBC Bristol in 2006
    See Category:Labour disputes in the United Kingdom

    Rights

    Race and immigration
    March against the National Front in Brick Lane, 1978
    See also Category:Race riots in the United Kingdom

    Taxation
    Anti-Poll Tax graffiti

    Environment
    Flash mob protest at Heathrow Terminal 5
    See also: Environmental direct action in the United Kingdom

    Animal rights

    War
    Main article: Peace movement § United Kingdom
    Protesters against the war on Iraq

    Nuclear

    Religion
    Protest by Anonymous in London in 2008 against Scientology

    Art and culture
    Stuckist demonstration outside the White Cube gallery

    Foreign policy
    Pro-Tibet protesters at Olympic torch relay in London in 2008

    Anti-capitalist/anti-globalisation
    Black bloc at the 2009 G20 protests

    Troubles in Northern Ireland
    Main article: The Troubles
    Memorial march in 2007 for Bloody Sunday

    Other

    Laws governing protest
    Forward Intelligence Team at a Lebanon war protest in London in 2006

    Policing
    Riot police at the 2009 G20 protest in London

    Protest organisations

    Protest websites

    See also

    References
    1. https://twitter.com/PSCupdates/status/1715760077267747077
    2. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/21/about-100000-turn-out-in-london-for-pro-palestine-rally
    3. @euromove (26 March 2022). "BREAKING: Over 150,000 people confirmed to be marching with European Movement UK and @MayorofLondon on the march fo…" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
    4. "The fight for the right to object". 2009-07-06. Retrieved 2019-07-29.

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