At some point, some speeches were made, but we were too far away to hear them, so we headed back into town, where some of those who had broken away from the demo were still marching around.
I remember from the second demo, in the autumn of 2002, where perhaps 200,000 people marched, seeing protestors with fake suicide bomber T-shirts.
Later on Friday evening, a crowd of over 6,000 people – including SYRIZA members, communists and anarchists – marched peacefully through Athens, before a contingent of the demo split off and began clashing with police in Exarcheia's narrow side streets.
What marched out of Wang's brain at that first Project Oke demo in July was a cute robot, singing and dancing.
They are gifting the Tories a 15-point lead... Demos and marches are fine, but they won't win Nuneaton, Corby or Morley back".
After a couple of hours marching, as the demo's head approached Berri Square (more commonly called Place Emilie-Gamelin by francophones), it veered eastward along de Maisonneuve Boulevard, which is one-way westbound.
One of my formative political memories is marching on one of the giant CND demos in London in the early 1980s, and coming across a small group from a Tories Against Cruise and Trident.
"In August 1977, the National Front organised what they called an "anti-mugging" march through Lewisham and there was a big counter-demo involving a fantastic mixture of people.
Back in the square, the anti-fascists started marching towards the station, where the far-right had gathered for their demo, and occupied a section of the road in an attempt to stop the neo-Nazis in their tracks.
The demo was made up of several leftist, antifascist and anarchist organisations whose plan was to march from the city centre to the American Embassy.
