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SOUND ACTION RECORDINGS: POLITICAL CATEGORY

This page lists all the sound action recordings in the Political main category and provides direct links to its sound files. The other four main categories are:

Economic. Officialdom. Religious. Social.

The Political category organises its recordings into three sub-categories. They are:

Demonstrations. March for the Alternative 2011. Rioting and disorder.

SUB-CATEGORY: DEMONSTRATIONS

Anti child abuse march. Description: A woman with a loudhailer leads chanting on an anti-child abuse march along Piccadilly. Duration: 0:54. Recorded in 2008.

Antiwar protestor outside Parliament. Description: An antiwar protestor with a loudhailer accuses Westminster politicians of being war criminals. Duration: 2:15. Recorded in 2010.

Demo clash Piccadilly Circus. Description: Anti-Muslim demonstrators chant insults at a pro-Palestinian march at Piccadilly Circus. Duration: 1:32. Recorded in 2008.

Free Kurdistan demo Wood Green. Description: Chanting and whistling from a procession of Kurdish demonstrators in Wood Green. Duration: 2:19. Recorded in 2011.

G20 protests. Description: Demonstrators protesting against the G20 summit march north across London Bridge. Duration: 3:04. Recorded in 2009.

Gaza demo Hyde Park. Description: Pro-Palestinian and anti-Israeli chanting and left-wing proselytising at a large demonstration in Hyde Park. Duration: 3:23. Recorded in 2009.

Iranian embassy protest. Description: Iranians protest against the Tehran regime with chanting and music in a vigil outside the Iranian embassy. Duration: 2:37. Recorded in 2009.

Kurdish separatist demo Whitehall. Description: A crowd of Kurdish separatists chant as they occupy part of Whitehall outside Downing Street. Duration: 2:06. Recorded in 2014.

May Day 2010. Description: Turkish communists celebrate May Day at a rally in Clerkenwell Green. Duration: 2:40. Recorded in 2010.

National Front Cenotaph march. Description: Members of the far-right National Front march from the Cenotaph along Whitehall on Remembrance Sunday. Contains swearing. Duration: 2:28. Recorded in 2012.

Save our Stow. Description: Demonstrators chant in protest at the threatened closure of Walthamstow Stadium. Duration: 1:20. Recorded in 2008.

Save Radio 6 Music. Description: Andrew Collins and Richard Herring speak at a rally protesting the threatened closure of BBC Radio 6 Music. Duration: 3:06. Recorded in 2010.

Sri Lankan protest 2009. Description: Tamils protest out Parliament for a ceasefire during the war in Sri Lanka. Duration: 0:23. Recorded in 2009.

St Pauls protest camp 2011. Description: Evening sounds of the anti-capitalist protest camp by the steps of St Pauls cathedral. Duration: 2:20. Recorded in 2011.

SUB-CATEGORY: MARCH FOR THE ALTERNATIVE 2011

Anti cuts protest brass band. Description: A trade union brass band plays as part of an anti-cuts protest in central London. Duration: 1:47. Recorded in 2011.

Protesters on the Strand. Description: Voices and samba drumming as anti-cuts protesters march through central London. Duration: 2:30. Recorded in 2011.

Protesters pass Downing Street. Description: Anti-spending cuts protesters jeer, boo and blow horns as they pass Downing Street. Duration: 3:04. Recorded in 2011.

Protesters pass Holborn tube. Description: Protesters chant against government spending cuts as they walk through central London. Duration: 2:18. Recorded in 2011.

Sweeper and protest drummers. Description: A samba band plays and vuvuzelas are blown in a protest while a road sweeper works nearby. Duration: 6:17. Recorded in 2011.

SUB-CATEGORY: RIOTING AND DISORDER

Anarchy in the UK. Description: Anarchists smash windows along Tottenham Court Road, cheer each other on and evade the police. Duration: 5:47. Recorded in 2001.

Onlookers and looters Peckham. Description: Onlookers talk excitedly as young women loot an Iceland food store in Rye Lane, Peckham. Duration: 2:10. Recorded in 2011.

This concludes the list of recordings in the Political category.

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