Not One More Death - Troops Out of Afghanistan!

"How do you ask the last man to die for a mistake?"  John Kerry in 1974 on the war in Vietnam.

The death of six more British soldiers in Afghanistan is yet another tragic outcome of the disastrous occupation. 

It is a tragedy that could have been avoided if the British government was prepared to publicly acknowledge the obvious truth that the operation has been a catastrophe and is failing.

The deaths have brought the occupation into question once again and generated discussion in the media including an article in the Mirror by Stop the War Chair Jeremy Corbyn.

Stop the War is calling on all its local groups to organise protests this weekend to mark the tragedy and the fact that it takes the number of British deaths in Afghanistan past the figure of 400 to 404.

In Nottingham we will have a stall in the Old Market Square between 12 noon and 2pm on Saturday (10 March).  We will have our banner, a petition calling for the troops to be pulled out immediately, and a leaflet pointing out the horrendous waste of life on both sides.  We know the exact number of British soldiers, but they refuse to count the many thousands of Afghans who have lost their lives.

The more people who can make it, the more impact we will have.  Join us if you can.

John Shemeld
Nottingham Coordinator
Stop the War Coalition