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		</div><p>Thousands took to the streets of London to protest against military intervention in Syria for the second time in four days.</p>
<p>Chants of “David Cameron shame on you!” and “Don’t bomb Syria!” rang out across Parliament Square.</p>
<p>Lindsey German, the convenor of Stop the War, told the crowd: “We are here to say one very simple thing: don’t bomb Syria.</p>
<p>“Do not this time go and bomb a country where you make it even worse than it was before.”</p>
<p>Salma Yaqoob, the head of the Birmingham Stop the War coalition, said “we don’t seem to have learned a single thing” from the invasion of Iraq.</p>
<p>“When we bomb other people’s countries, we do not become more safe. We become less safe.</p>
<p>“If you bomb them we will not be safe at home.”</p>
<p>The emergency protest was called by the Stop the War coalition ahead of Wednesday’s vote on airstrikes.</p>
<p>The coalition had condemned as “deplorable” Jeremy Corbyn’s decision to grant a free vote to Labour MPs, with Andrew Murray, the group’s chairman, saying it had “cleared the way” for the Commons vote on air strikes.</p>
<p>More than 3,500 people said they were going to the event on Facebook, where organisers wrote: “We must do everything we can to stop MPs voting the UK into its fourth war on a Muslim country in 14 years.”</p>
<p>A statement on the Stop the War website read: “Britain has been the most aggressive country in Europe over the last 15 years, leading military interventions in Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya.</p>
<p>“Yet it has done little to help the victims of the wars it so enthusiastically pursues and it has been at the forefront of opposing a humane policy towards refugees.</p>
<p>“Another destructive bombing campaign is no solution whatsoever. It will make moves toward a political solution harder. It risks intensifying and widening what is already a catastrophic war.”</p>
<p>Tuesday’s protest comes after thousands of people protested outside Downing Street on Saturday.</p>
<p>Parts of Whitehall were brought to a halt during the event, which included speakers such as the actor Mark Rylance and the musician Brian Eno.</p>
<p>A statement issued by more than 50 student leaders was issued earlier on Tuesday.</p>
<p>It read: “British military action will not defeat Isis and risks increasing the terrorist threat both to the peoples of the Middle East and to Britain.”</p>
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