London’s Irish republican community joined thousands of others taking part in the capital’s May Day march held on bank holiday Monday to mark the start of the historic General Strike of 1926.

The theme of the march through central London was ‘Workers Make History’, celebrating 100 years since the General Strike. It began outside the Marx Memorial Library in Clerkenwell Green and ended, as always, in a rally in Trafalgar Square.

The annual London May Day march and rally, more of a procession rather than a march, has become part of the capital’s traditions.

It passed without incident, apart from a couple of provocations from Iranian royalists who snatched the flag of the Islamic Republic of Iran and a further clash between these supporters of the hated Shah that led to two arrests as the march got near to Trafalgar Square.