Why 'biggest march in history' failed to stop 2003 Iraq invasion - Part 3
Channel: Green Left
Date: 25/02/2013

Simon Butler was a 25-year-old activist who helped organise the mass mobilisations in Sydney in February and March 2003 against the invasion of Iraq. He was also a leader of the socialist youth group Resistance and the student anti-war movement Books Not Bombs, which Resistance initiated. The movement against the war in Iraq saw the largest protests in history, with up to 30 million people around the world demonstrating over the same weekend. Green Left TV's Peter Boyle spoke to Butler about why the movement failed to stop the war. (Part 3 of 4 deals with the split in the anti-war movement in Sydney.)