Almost as soon as it was built London suffered the first of many acts of violent protest when Boudica & her followers set fire to the city in AD 60. Ever since the capitals streets have been a forum for popular insurrection. Covering nearly 2 000 years of protest -- from Wat Tyler to the G20
- this is the story of an alternative London & an alternative history of the British Isles: outside parliamentary processes & in direct confrontation with the forces of the state. It is a story of political activism expressed in street fighting & slum warfare in assassination & bombing peopled by a fascinating array of demagogues democrats bigots & social revolutionaries. It is also the story of the growth of London as a capital & as a major city. This fully revised & comprehensive edition contains new chapters on the 7/7 attacks the deaths of Jean Charles de Menezes & Ian Tomlinson recent environmental anti-capitalist & libertarian protest & a discussion of the importance of current laws on terrorism civil rights & the policing of protests.