Liberal and leftwing TDs had to walk through gauntlets of screaming pickets outside their constituency surgeries and even their homes as rightwing Catholic agitators accused them of being "baby killers" because they were pro-choice on abortion.
A banner proclaiming "lesbians and gays support the miners" has been airbrushed out of the picture on the back cover, and the queer agitators are now simply "a group of London-based activists" in the blurb.
After the ethnic clashes that rocked Tibet and Xinjiang in recent years, officials were able to deflect blame on to minority agitators and outside provocateurs.
But the agitators hold some important advantages especially the Madhesis, who live in an economically important area and control supply routes to the capital.There can be no election until their grievances, and those of others, have been tackled.
He is evidently trying to lock up the "agitators," white and black, as a preliminary to restoring full police control, on the assumption that the masses will then be too leaderless to resist.The basic nature of South Africa's racial struggle is revealed in this pattern of reactions.
They are based on his belief, or pretended belief, that the mass of Africans are happy under apartheid, and are misled into revolt only by agitators.
Coalition also diminishes Mr Cameron's powers of patronage, such as cabinet seats, with which to buy off agitators.
But democracy may not produce the outcome the agitators want.
After weeks of road blockades and boisterous protests the president, Carlos Mesa, had resigned, opening the way for the president of the Senate, Hormando Vaca Díez, a hate figure for the agitators, to succeed him.
In 1941 he was imprisoned by the British, who were desperately holding the Japanese at bay and had no time for agitators.
At the time, he moralised about TV journalists and their difference from "agitators".
