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Peace campaigner Brian Haw – a protest in pictures

Brian Haw, 62, who became a fixture in Parliament Square over the past decade, died on Saturday after a 'long hard fight' against lung cancer

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Brian Haw sacrificed his life for peace | Tony Benn

The death of Parliament Square's longstanding Iraq war protester marks the end of a historic enterpriseObituary: Brian HawBrian Haw was a man of principle and a man of action who took his campaign...

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Brian Haw obituary

Peace campaigner of Parliament Square spurred to action over sanctions on IraqBrian Haw, who has died aged 62 after being treated for lung cancer, was a tenacious peace campaigner who in 2001 took up...

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Mark Wallinger on Brian Haw: 'It took a while to earn his trust'

Artist Mark Wallinger recalls working with peace protester Brian Haw on State Britain, his reconstruction for Tate Britain of the Parliament Square protestI was away in Germany from 2001 to 2003, so I...

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Brian Haw: protesting to the end

To some Brian Haw was a hero, to others an unruly irritant. But there is no denying the impact his very visible protest madeParliament Square can be a harsh place. On the eastern side of its stately...

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Brian Haw: saints can be hard work | Michael White

The anti-war campaigner whose Parliament Square protest lasted 3,600 days was said to be a prickly character, but his last stand was a magnificent statement of British contrarinessI was surprised this...

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Michael Craft obituary

Our friend Michael Craft, who has died aged 75, was an "activist" for peace and justice long before the word came into common use. The first independent candidate to stand for parliament on a Ban the...

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From the archive, 5 October 1926: Two-pronged approach to no more war

Originally published in the Manchester Guardian on 5 October 1926Mr A Fenner Brockway, presiding on Saturday at the annual conference of the No More War Movement at Birmingham said that those who...

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I'm anti-war, but the Taliban must not triumph in Afghanistan | Peter Tatchell

On the 10th anniversary of war in Afghanistan, anti-imperialism cannot be allowed to trump human rightsThe Afghan war strategy is not working. After 10 bloody years, there are too many civilian...

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Morag Wood obituary

In the early 1960s my wife, Morag Wood, who has died of bone cancer aged 72, was active in the Scottish Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and the Govan and Gorbals Young Socialists. She was involved in...

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The anti-war movement's dilemma – and how to resolve it | Richard Seymour

People sympathetic to the Arab uprisings, but sceptical of war, are looking to the anti-war movement for analysis and directionThe war on Libya produced a strange effect in British politics. The...

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Last Parliament Square protest tent can be removed

High court lifts injunction preventing removal of anti-war campaigner Maria Gallastegui as it rules new bylaws are legalThe last anti-war protest tent opposite the Houses of Parliament can be removed,...

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US women may stage hunger strike in Pakistan in anti-drones protest

Code Pink activists gathered in Islamabad ready to join march led by Imran Khan into tribal region bordering AfghanistanNot content with a planned march into one of Pakistan's most dangerous regions, a...

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Letters

You argue (Unthinkable? Poppy week, 13 October) about "cultural tyranny" and how difficult it has become to express opinion about war "without appearing to dishonour the dead", yet fail to mention that...

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Tony Blair jeered by UCL students

Students and campaigners from Stop the War Coalition repeat call for former prime minister to be tried for war crimesTony Blair was jeered by anti-war protesters at University College London on...

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Peace campaigner Brian Haw – a protest in pictures

Brian Haw, 62, who became a fixture in Parliament Square over the past decade, died on Saturday after a 'long hard fight' against lung cancer

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Brian Haw sacrificed his life for peace | Tony Benn

The death of Parliament Square's longstanding Iraq war protester marks the end of a historic enterpriseObituary: Brian HawBrian Haw was a man of principle and a man of action who took his campaign...

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Brian Haw obituary

Peace campaigner of Parliament Square spurred to action over sanctions on IraqBrian Haw, who has died aged 62 after being treated for lung cancer, was a tenacious peace campaigner who in 2001 took up...

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Mark Wallinger on Brian Haw: 'It took a while to earn his trust'

Artist Mark Wallinger recalls working with peace protester Brian Haw on State Britain, his reconstruction for Tate Britain of the Parliament Square protestI was away in Germany from 2001 to 2003, so I...

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Brian Haw: protesting to the end

To some Brian Haw was a hero, to others an unruly irritant. But there is no denying the impact his very visible protest madeParliament Square can be a harsh place. On the eastern side of its stately...

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