Lobby on Downing Street
5.30pm, Thursday 28th July. Send a message to Tony Blair: Stop Shoot to Kill, Stop the Bombings and Bring the Troops Home. Please bring colleagues, friends, family and distribute this Flyer widely.
Flyer avialve and more information from Stop the war Coalitioon at:
http://www.stopwar.org.uk/
5.30pm, Thursday 28th July. Send a message to Tony Blair: Stop Shoot to Kill, Stop the Bombings and Bring the Troops Home. Please bring colleagues, friends, family and distribute this Flyer widely.
Flyer avialve and more information from Stop the war Coalitioon at:
http://www.stopwar.org.uk/
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Thanks, but I already bought a paper
26.07.2005 19:41
disrespect
Pretty Broad Stroke
26.07.2005 23:21
People Against War Had Nothing To Do With 7/7
Disrespect for the dead ..support for Blair
27.07.2005 05:19
The execution of the young Brazilian man and the terrible atrocities in London are a direct result of the Bush and Blair invasion of Iraq. The government and the media is doing all it can to deny the link but cannot hold the line .The Blair who condemned the suicide bombers is the same politician who helped unleash Shock and Awe on Baghdad .Hundreds of cruise missiles,high explosives and cluster bombs have rained down on the cities of Iraq.Disrespect could have commented on many of the terrible events and issues that have led up to the bombings and the shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes but has instead chosen to attack the anti war movement.Pathetic really... and how the pro war lot must love him!
Ifor
Ifor
Pot Kettle Black
27.07.2005 06:00
Not exactly shocking that the SWP tossers are trying to jump on a bandwagon to shift a few papers, though, is it?
PKB
Defend Civil Liberties
27.07.2005 12:50
"London Exclusion Zone
Join the Protest on Parliament Square on 1st August against the government's exclusion order for the area around Parliament. We believe this is a very serious attack on our civil liberties. There is no justification for prohibiting demonstrations in these areas and there must be concerns that this ban is an attempt to prevent legitimate protest against government policies....more."
You can also see the various groups that form the Stop the War Coalition on the website or
if you go to local or national meetings.
See you at the lobby of Downing Street tommorrow.
MS
To MS and the missing hundreds
27.07.2005 19:35
Well i was wrong.
One thing that makes me sick the most is the utter hijacking of a tragedy by careerist politicians who now call for a lobby of downing street with the message stop shoot to kill, bring the troops home. let em stay and die and take galloway and the SWP with you
blue eyes
revisionism from MS
27.07.2005 22:28
Were they defending civil liberties when they refused to mention the Parliament Square peace camp or the Fairford demonstration on their website in the first months of the Iraq war because they weren't central committee-approved activities?
Were they defending civil liberties when they had an imcista arrested for trying to publicise police repression on the ESF closing march?
The only liberties the STWC are interested in are their own.
disrespect
Slurs And Sectarianism FROM Disrespect
28.07.2005 05:21
The STW Coalition was set up in Sept 2001 with the aim of not only stopping the drive to war but also preventing a racist backlash and civil liberties which would be an almost inevitable outcome of the attack on Iraq and Afghanistan .
The STWC mobilized millions and inspired many more in the great series of protest,demonstrations and countless local meetings and actions. The STW book ,recently published by Bookmarks gives a flavour of the breadth and depth of the anti war movement both here in Britain and across the world.The SWP is an embedded part of the anti war movement and the movement is all the better for the red thread provided by its socialist organisation and ideas.These past few weeks are a crucial period in the political battle between the pro war right and those who are opposed to the war and all the horrible racist baggage that goes with it.
"Disrespect", who comments above appears, to be a sectarian bigot of the first order has let his hatred of the SWP and the STWC get in the way of the truth.He needs to get out a bit more.
David
typical swappy response
28.07.2005 15:29
disrespect
Who is Disrespect ?What is he that all his words condemn ?
28.07.2005 17:00
How bizarre!I was convinced that the anti war movement in all its variety and shades of opinion had spent the past four years opposing the invasion and occupation of Iraq. WEe have warned about the massive bombing of Iraqi cities,the use of cluster bombs on civilian neighbourhoods,the flattening of cities like Fallujah,the terrible malnutrition among Iraqi children and so much more.
The anti war movement insisted that the invasion was illegal and would result in a slaughter of the innocentsin Iraq and elsewhere.
From the very beginning the STWC also warned about the attack on our civil liberties and stood shoulder to shoulder with moslems and other minority groups including refugees who were the first victims of the racist backlash
But according to Disrespect [hey he hasnt put the boot into Galloway yet] it is the STWC which is responsible for the murder and the mayhem,the carnage and the killings,the racism and the sexism.
I think not somehow.
Disresect.... underneath the old bluster you are nothing but an anti socialist and to all intents and purposes a Blairite.There may be a crisis in our capital city and a vicious racist backlash across the country ...hey but you know the cause some Socialist Worker paper sellers selling an anti war paper.Thank you for that Disrespect.
Leslie
Ifor
confused about killings abroad
29.07.2005 10:56
when bombers blo up kids in Iraq the are called insurgents/resistance and the SWP supports them. when they blow people up here you oppose them...? is our blood better than theirs?
aren't we against all killing? or just when it is in our country?
mr costello
UK is not under foriegn occupation, Iraq is
29.07.2005 12:14
We do not believe terrorist attacks will help our cause, in fact it will make the lives of ordinary people people at home worst, actually the people who are effected most are (apart from the bomb victims) the British Muslims and people with brown skin.
Dissrecpect is totally wrong to say that STWC is to blame for the attacks. Lets make it clear that STWC is and will continue to play a central role in stopping the occupation and to help bring about peace. STWC has helped forge links and solidarity between Muslims and whites, in fact one could argue that without the STWC terrorists attacks would probably increase.
Dissrespect is a fool to think there is a quick and easy way to end the occupation and stop this war, if people were fooled into his way of thinking and that STWC disbanded as he advocates then Blair&C.o would be very happy people.
Dissrespect, get out of your sectrian getto.
red letter
so you do support bombings then?
29.07.2005 23:39
So you do support the "insurgents" blowing up kids in Iraq.
comparing them to the french resistance fighty the Nazis even.
I wouldn't mind (so much) if they were fighting the Americans and British....but suicide bombs in crowds of kids?
Why didnt they stand in the elections (how ever flawed)?
all the crocodile tears from STW leadership about people dead here seem a bit crass.
death is death is death is death. isn't it?
If britain decalres war on another country and foreign innocents die as a result (and you support the resistance doing the killing) so what if the killing and the resistance comes home?
Victory to the global resistance! death to innocents!
surely you see the awful logic?
down with killing!
mr costello
War is an ugly business.
31.07.2005 12:16
Lets be clear, most of the resistance is targeted at US forces and the Iraqi puppet police force, 1,700 US solidiers have died (loads more have been disabled). Alot of these deaths occured in self defence, alot occur in offensive attacks. Both of these types of resitance is totally justified.
Of course innocent people have died in the process, US occupation forces have killed countless of innocent people and also have resitance fighters, thats true I don't deny it, but haven't you notice that war is bloody dreadfull and there has not been one war where shit like this doesn't happen, there's no such thing as a clean war!
You may have your pacisfist ideas but at the end of the day you need to take sides, are you with the Iraqi people fighting back or do you support Bush & Blair? There cannot be a liberal middle ground here. There were was no liberal ground in Vietnam, both sides lost huge amounts of people, fortunately the imperialist side was defeated and I am pleased it did (if the US had won, then no doubt more wars and misery would have been fought).
In regards to your question of the iraqi elections, these have been imposed by US & the puppet government, they have been rigged in order to divide the iraqi's on ethnic grounds and groups. Classic divide and rule tactics, they are not legitimate elections- If they were truely democratic then the occuppying would be asked to leave.
Finally, STWC coalition does not have a position on the Iraqi resitance and this is just a personal view. STWC has a broad view that the occupation should be ended and UK troops out. This view is shared by the majority of the UK population including military personel.
The best thing we can do is to continue our peaceful struggle at home.
red letter