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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

issue 18 January 2014

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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