While “No Kings” rallies took place across the U.S. on March 28th, in the UK on the same day hundreds of thousands of people marched through London in opposition to war, racism and fascism.

Britain still has a real king but, as a constitutional monarch, he has far less power than the wannabe one in America. As Trump continues to commit war crimes, in tandem with Netanyahu, there have been only feeble attempts to stop him from inside the U.S. government.

The London march brought together different groups who are both opposed to the war in Iran as well as to the existing regime in Tehran. These groups highlighted the connection between the attack on Iran with the war in Gaza and the occupied West Bank, and now also Lebanon, as part of a Greater Israel project. Protesters in London included the Jewish Anti-Zionist Network and the Holocaust Survivor Descendants against Gaza Genocide.

And with upcoming British local elections in May, an additional focus of the protest was Nigel Farage, leader of Britain’s far-right Reform Party. Farage led the Brexit campaign. Reform is anti-Europe and strongly anti-immigrant, mirroring MAGA in the States. It currently leads in many opinion polls, putting them ahead of the Labour Party. Although national elections won’t be held for a few more years, local ones in May could be a harbinger of things to come, as with the Midterms in the U.S.. It remains to be seen whether Britain will make a sharp turn to the right just as the U.S. might be moving back in the opposite direction after two years of a Trump second term. 

Can mass demonstrations make a difference this time, where they haven’t in the past?

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