Irish Examiner view: Protests cap Labour’s worst week in Britain

Mass civil disobedience could deliver yet another gift

Supporters of Palestine Action take part in a mass action in Parliament Square, Westminster,  London. Picture: Stefan Rousseau/PA

It’s some 57 years since The Rolling Stones told us they could “hear the sound of marching, charging feet”.

It was 1968 when Mick Jagger, always with an eye on topicality, wrote his Street Fighting Man lyrics to accompany a summer and autumn of protest with large-scale demonstrations against the Vietnam War and student revolts across Europe.