100,000 are expected at anti-war protest
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Your support makes all the difference.London will be hit with a second massive protest march inside a week today when up to 100,000 people are expected to join a rally against war with Iraq.
The Stop the War Coalition and the Muslim Association of Britain have joined forces for a combined protest march which they hope will be the biggest since the CND rallies of the 1980s.
Organisers accept they will not match the 400,000 people who joined the Countryside Alliance's Liberty and Livelihood march through the capital last Sunday. But they hope that the protest will surpass the numbers at a demonstration held in March against the war in Afghanistan.
The coalition includes trade unions, Labour MPs and Muslim organisations. The demonstration will gather at Victoria Embankment close to the Houses of Parliament before marching through Piccadilly to Hyde Park for the rally.
Speakers will include the Mayor of London, Ken Livingstone; the former United Nations weapons inspector Scott Ritter; Tony Benn MP; Iqbal Sacranie, of the Muslim Council of Britain; and an Arab member of Israel's Knesset, Azmi Bishwara. Union speakers include Bob Crow, general secretary of the RMT; and Mick Rix, general secretary of Aslef.
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