Anti war demonstrators make their way down Piccadilly in central London on their way to the rally in Hyde Park.
ANTI-WAR campaigners are still fighting for peace, 20 years on from the mass mobilisation against the Iraq war.
On February 15 2003, at least 1.5 million people took part in the Stop the War Coalition (STW) demonstration in London against then Labour prime minister Tony Blair’s threat to join the US in the invasion of Iraq.
The lie that was told at the time was that the Middle Eastern country and its leader Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction: an assertion later disproved by the United Nations and other bodies.
PCS general secretary FRAN HEATHCOTE explains why opposing war is inseparable from defending jobs, wages and public services – and why readers should come to the London Peace Conference on Saturday June 20
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