The biggest post-war union demonstrations took place in the early 1990s in protest against them.
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Climate activists targeted the award ceremony in protest against sponsorship from oil company BP.
In protest against the reforms, Italian trade unions called private- and public-sector national strikes.
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Campaigners have set up camp in protest against plans for a Bexhill-to-Hastings link road.
At least 15, 000 people have marched in protest against proposals to close services at a hospital in south London.
The union struck in protest against a new contract imposed in bankruptcy court.
Caroline Lester, former clerk of Kirby Cane and Ellingham Council, said five councillors quit in protest against councillor Rod Cooke's behaviour.
The turmoil has continued at New Grosvenor with vice-chairman Tommy Anderson resigning in protest against the sacking of Kirk last week.
Seven young Native Canadian men have finished a 1, 600km (1, 000-mile) trek to the Canadian capital in protest against living conditions on reserves.
Two competing marches have been held in Ecuador's capital Quito, one in protest against the government's mining policies and one supporting them.
Costas Laliotis, Pasok's tough-talking secretary-general, has told public-sector trade unionists that they are free to take to the streets in protest against America.
The group, from the town of Tahrouna in western Libya, began the occupation in protest against the disappearance of one of their commanders.
Salah al-Shanfarah, Dr Nasser al-Khabaji, and Muhsin Basarah have been boycotting parliament in recent weeks in protest against government action in the south.
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This, or so went his official reason, was in protest against the back-channel talks going on in Sweden between Israeli and Palestinian officials.
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Instead, the closure came after staff walked off the job on Wednesday in protest against the increasing number of pickpockets operating in the museum.
For instance, this week one of Mr Sadr's prominent members of parliament, Hassan al-Rubaei, walked out in protest against the fighting in Sadr City.
Natan Sharansky, Israel's minister for Jerusalem and diaspora affairs, resigned from Ariel Sharon's government in protest against plans to withdraw from the Gaza strip.
In 1986, in protest against fraudulent elections in the northern state of Chihuahua, the archbishop suspended church services across the state for one Sunday.
North West crown court cases are facing disruption as barristers plan to miss hearings to attend a meeting in protest against proposed legal aid changes.
The parliamentary crisis was precipitated by one of Mr Gross's centre-left coalition partners, the Christian Democrats, who walked out in protest against his financial affairs.
All but one member of a Norfolk parish council has resigned in protest against a fellow councillor they claim has put them under "considerable stress".
Last year campaigners fighting plans to close those departments handed a 50, 000-signature petition to Downing Street and they have marched in protest against the proposals.
He said Rumsfeld's comments vindicated his decision to resign from his Cabinet job as leader of the House of Commons in protest against the war.
Then, binmen joined bankers in protest against Ireland's high tax rates.
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This week MPs from across the region submitted petitions to Parliament in protest against the tax proposal, which is due to be introduced on 1 October.
Last year, activists from Plane Stupid occupied the roof for three hours in protest against Heathrow expansion, resulting in five activists being found guilty of trespass.
There has been sporadic violence in India at the beginning of a two-day strike called by the country's trade unions in protest against the government's economic reforms.
The singer and activist Billy Bragg has threatened not to pay his taxes in protest against the bonuses being paid out by Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS).
AU, in protest against the Sudanese government's policies in Darfur.
Crowds of young men, most of them unemployed and from immigrant families, burned cars and fought with police in protest against poor living conditions and what they said was institutional racism.
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