14-07-2018 - Armed police on the streets, Durham Miners Gala, 2018 © Mark Pinder

14-07-2018 - Armed police on the streets, Durham Miners Gala, 2018 © Mark Pinder

31-01-2011 - Demonstrators stop army tanks from taking control of Al-Tahrir (Liberation Square), early morning. Uprising against Mubarak, Cairo, Egypt. © Jess Hurd

31-01-2011 - Demonstrators stop army tanks from taking control of Al-Tahrir (Liberation Square), early morning. Uprising against Mubarak, Cairo, Egypt. © Jess Hurd

30-01-2011 - Army captain who left the army to join the uprising against Mubarak, Cairo, Egypt. © Jess Hurd

30-01-2011 - Uprising against Mubarak, Cairo, Egypt. © Jess Hurd

29-01-2011 - People ride on firefighter trucks. Uprising against President Mubarak, Cairo, Egypt. © Jess Hurd

29-01-2010 - Youth taking pictures of each other on a tank. Uprising against Mubarak, Cairo, Egypt. © Jess Hurd

06-10-2008 - MOD workers at Landmarc Support Services on strike at the Castlemartin ranges in Pembrokeshire Wales demonstrate at the gates for better pay. © Paul Box

06-10-2008 - MOD workers at Landmarc Support Services on strike at the Castlemartin ranges in Pembrokeshire Wales demonstrate at the gates for better pay. © Paul Box

06-10-2008 - MOD workers at Landmarc Support Services on strike at the Castlemartin ranges in Pembrokeshire Wales demonstrate at the gates for better pay. © Paul Box

02-08-2007 - School Students Against the War picket Kids Connections an agency employed by the Ministry of Defence to write 40 lesson plans for use in UK schools this September entitled the Defence Dynamics Projec... © Jess Hurd

02-08-2007 - School Students Against the War picket Kids Connections an agency employed by the Ministry of Defence to write 40 lesson plans for use in UK schools this September entitled the Defence Dynamics Projec... © Jess Hurd

02-08-2007 - School Students Against the War picket Kids Connections an agency employed by the Ministry of Defence to write 40 lesson plans for use in UK schools this September entitled the Defence Dynamics Projec... © Jess Hurd

02-08-2007 - School Students Against the War picket Kids Connections an agency employed by the Ministry of Defence to write 40 lesson plans for use in UK schools this September entitled the Defence Dynamics Projec... © Jess Hurd

02-08-2007 - School Students Against the War picket Kids Connections an agency employed by the Ministry of Defence to write 40 lesson plans for use in UK schools this September entitled the Defence Dynamics Projec... © Jess Hurd

14-11-2002 - Police in attendance at a fire attended by 3 Green Goddesses manned by armed forces during the firefighters strike. The fire was at the derelict Golden Shoe pub on the notorious Kingsmead Estate in Ho... © Geoff Crawford

16-11-1989 - Army ambulance crew on standby at Chelsea Barracks during the ambulance workers pay dispute. © Philip Wolmuth

16-11-1989 - An army ambulance delivers a patient to St.Marys Hospital, Paddington, London, during the ambulance workers pay dispute. © Philip Wolmuth

08-11-1989 - Army unit preparing Military Ambulances to replace NHS accident and emergency Ambulance crew suspended for working to rule. Chelsea Barracks © John Harris

05-10-1985 - Unveiling of the memorial statue sculpted by Ian Walters to the International Brigade: in honour of those who left Britain & Ireland to fight with the Spanish people against Franco and the Fascists in... © Stefano Cagnoni

30-01-1979 - The Winter Of Discontent. Army moving bags of rubbish as the Labour government breaks the refuse collectors strike, Glasgow 1979 © John Sturrock

20-11-1977 - Firemens strike 1977 RAF firemen trying to put out a fire Stratford, East London © NLA

20-11-1977 - Firemen's strike 1977 RAF firemen trying to put out a fire, Stratford, East London © NLA

13-11-1977 - Firemens strike 1977 Soldiers at Woolwich barracks training in firefighting with an old army Green Goddess fire engine in preparation for strike breaking. © NLA

27-03-1975 - Glasgow dustcart drivers strike, 1975. Soldiers collecting rubbish. Army was sent in by Labour government to break the strike © Peter Arkell

27-03-1975 - Glasgow dustcart drivers strike, 1975. Soldiers collecting rubbish. Army was sent in by Labour government to break the strike, an army bulldozer is mobbed by children © Peter Arkell

23-03-1975 - Glasgow dustcart drivers strike, 1975. Soldiers collecting rubbish. Army was sent in by Labour government to break the strike © Peter Arkell

21-03-1975 - Glasgow dustcart drivers strike of 1975. Pickets block the entrance to rubbish depot to army vehicles. The army was sent in to break the strike by the Labour government © Peter Arkell

21-03-1975 - Glasgow dustcart drivers strike of 1975. Pickets, supported by AEEU from Rolls Royce, block the entrance to a rubbish depot to army vehicles. Army was sent in by Labour government to break the strike © Peter Arkell

21-03-1975 - Glasgow dustcart drivers strike, 1975. Pickets, supported by EEPTU, block the entrance to rubbish depot to army vehicles. Army was sent in by Labour government to break the strike © Peter Arkell

21-03-1975 - Glasgow dustcart drivers strike of 1975. Pickets, supported by AEEU from Rolls Royce, block the entrance to a rubbish depot to army vehicles. Army was sent in by Labour government to break the strike © Peter Arkell

20-03-1975 - Army trucks push past pickets outside rubbish depot. Glasgow dustcart drivers strike 1975. Army was sent in by Labour government to break the strike © Peter Arkell

19-03-1975 - Glasgow dustcart drivers strike 1975. Army cadet holds up a dead rat. Government and health authorities were worried by a plague of rats during the strike. Army was sent in by Labour government to bre... © Peter Arkell

19-03-1975 - Glasgow dustcart drivers strike, 1975. Soldiers collecting rubbish. Army was sent in by Labour government to break the strike © Peter Arkell

23-10-1970 - Troops clearing rubbish from Petticoat Lane during the council workers pay strike, London 1970 © Martin Mayer

23-10-1970 - Troops clearing rubbish from Petticoat Lane during the council workers pay strike, London 1970 © Martin Mayer