The Legacy of London's Iraq War March of 2003

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Tansy Hoskins remembers stamping her feet to ward off the bitter February cold after managing to join millions of people squeezed into Hyde Park 10 years ago today for the United Kingdom's largest- ever political demonstration.

As posters were thrown onto warming fires by marchers who had wound their way through the streets of London hours earlier, the case against waging war on Iraq was laid out by speakers, including left-wing activists and members of Parliament, artists, the former Liberal Democrat leader, Paddy Ashdown, and Jesse Jackson.

As a child, her parents had brought her on anti-war marches, and by February 2003 she was already deeply involved in mobilizing fellow …