Unemployed youth hanging out on North Peckham council housing estate, London
Homeless Youth 1
Kingsmead Estate Kid
Homeless people line up for their Christmas dinner at an open shelter in a disused church run by charity Crisis at Xmas
Activists from the Climate Camp at Kingsnorth block the Vopak fuel storage depot, Purfleet, Essex
Railton Road, Brixton - the Frontline. Rioting July 1981.
7.15-33 Youth faces riot police during Brixton riots.
Reclaim the Streets and Liverpool Dockers March for Social Justice, 12 April 1997.
071103_Class_War_042 Anarchist group Class War demonstrate against 'toffs', 'the rich' and FIT (the police Forward Intelligen...
1.0614/520 Drums of industrial waste stored awaiting incineration at the Rechem plant, Fawley, Southampton. 1993.
1.0614/647 Domestic rubbish being compacted on landfill site, Calvert, Bucks.
1.06-139 Outfall from Sturge Biochemicals factory into River Ouse, Yorkshire.
106-484 Port Talbot Steelworks, South Wales, 14 December 1990.
Slutwalk march and rally. London  June 11, 2011.
"Block The Bridge" demo by UK Uncut on Westminster Bridge, October 9, 2011.
English Defence League march to Tower Hamlets as a provocation towards the largely Muslim population, 3 September 2011.
7.31/370 National Front supporters pose for a photograph. Margate, June 2000.
National Front street Rally in Fulham on August Bank Holiday
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Unemployed youth hanging out on North Peckham council housing estate, London
Unemployed youth hanging out on North Peckham council housing estate, London
Homeless Youth 1
Homeless Youth 1
Kingsmead Estate Kid
Kingsmead Estate Kid
Homeless people line up for their Christmas dinner at an open shelter in a disused church run by charity Crisis at Xmas
Homeless people line up for their Christmas dinner at an open shelter in a disused church run by charity Crisis at Xmas
Activists from the Climate Camp at Kingsnorth block the Vopak fuel storage depot, Purfleet, Essex
Activists from the Climate Camp at Kingsnorth block the Vopak fuel storage depot, Purfleet, Essex
Railton Road, Brixton - the Frontline. Rioting July 1981.
Railton Road, Brixton - the Frontline. Rioting July 1981.
7.15-33 Youth faces riot police during Brixton riots.
7.15-33 Youth faces riot police during Brixton riots.
Reclaim the Streets and Liverpool Dockers March for Social Justice, 12 April 1997.
Reclaim the Streets and Liverpool Dockers March for Social Justice, 12 April 1997.
071103_Class_War_042 Anarchist group Class War demonstrate against 'toffs', 'the rich' and FIT (the police Forward Intelligen...
071103_Class_War_042 Anarchist group Class War demonstrate against 'toffs', 'the rich' and FIT (the police Forward Intelligence Team) in Ladbroke Grove, London. 3 November 2007.
1.0614/520 Drums of industrial waste stored awaiting incineration at the Rechem plant, Fawley, Southampton. 1993.
1.0614/520 Drums of industrial waste stored awaiting incineration at the Rechem plant, Fawley, Southampton. 1993.
1.0614/647 Domestic rubbish being compacted on landfill site, Calvert, Bucks.
1.0614/647 Domestic rubbish being compacted on landfill site, Calvert, Bucks.
1.06-139 Outfall from Sturge Biochemicals factory into River Ouse, Yorkshire.
1.06-139 Outfall from Sturge Biochemicals factory into River Ouse, Yorkshire.
106-484 Port Talbot Steelworks, South Wales, 14 December 1990.
106-484 Port Talbot Steelworks, South Wales, 14 December 1990.
Slutwalk march and rally. London  June 11, 2011.
Slutwalk march and rally. London June 11, 2011.
"Block The Bridge" demo by UK Uncut on Westminster Bridge, October 9, 2011.
"Block The Bridge" demo by UK Uncut on Westminster Bridge, October 9, 2011.
English Defence League march to Tower Hamlets as a provocation towards the largely Muslim population, 3 September 2011.
English Defence League march to Tower Hamlets as a provocation towards the largely Muslim population, 3 September 2011.
7.31/370 National Front supporters pose for a photograph. Margate, June 2000.
7.31/370 National Front supporters pose for a photograph. Margate, June 2000.
National Front street Rally in Fulham on August Bank Holiday
National Front street Rally in Fulham on August Bank Holiday
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