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Mind your language

Where did ‘No justice, no peace’ come from?

Mark Duggan’s supporters are using a slogan with a surprisingly long history among the chanting classes

18 January 2014

9:00 AM

18 January 2014

9:00 AM

The chant No justice, no peace by supporters of Mark Duggan, the drug gangster shot dead by police in 2011, sounded more like a threat than a prediction. No one knows the originator of the slogan, but that is not surprising. It is a commonplace of the struggle.

In 2011, for example, a pair of artists called Mikkel Floher and Rasmus Nielsen put on an exhibition called No Justice No Peace at a gallery in Frederiksberg, Denmark.

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