"The notion that the anti-war movement has melted away is not the case," said Lindsey German, a spokeswoman for the Stop the War Coalition, the main anti-war group in Britain.

"There is widespread opposition to this war and the more people see of the civilian casualties and the bombing of Basra and Baghdad, it makes people's revulsion even stronger," she said.

A national demonstration in London on Saturday is expected to draw hundreds of thousands of protesters from across Britain, including prominent MPs from the ruling Labour party.

"Every day hundreds if not thousands of Iraqi women, children and men are being killed and injured which is one of the reasons why the international anti-war movement is still on high alert," German said.

On February 15, more than one million people took to the streets of London to protest the then looming war on Baghdad in what police said was the largest demonstration in the British capital.

On March 22, two days after the start of hostilities, between 200,000 and 700,000 people protested in the British capital.

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