Author: Clive Bloom
ISBN No: 9780 230275591
Review date: 17/12/2025
No of pages: 0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
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Covering nearly 2,000 years of protest – from Wat Tyler to the G20 – this is the story of an alternative London, and an alternative history of the British Isles: outside parliamentary processes and in confrontation with the forces of the state. It is a story of political activism expressed in street fighting and slum warfare, in assassination and bombing, peopled by demagogues, democrats, bigots and social revolutionaries. It is also the story of the growth of London as a capital and as a major city. This revised edition contains new chapters on the 7/7 attacks, the deaths of Jean Charles de Menezes and Ian Tomlinson, recent environmental, anti-capitalist and libertarian protest, and a discussion of the importance of current laws on terrorism, civil rights and the policing of protests.
