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SOS- Action needed

Chris | 28.10.2001 12:46

What happened to the anti-war movement in London?

Afghanistan is facing immediate genocide from famine. The botched military operation is creating thousands of civilian victims. Why are there no mass protests in London?
Why are we so docile? What happened to international solidarity?
Let's all picket Downing Street on Tuesday night (to join the weekly protest). Do people know of other pickets, rallies etc?
Urgent action needed.

Chris
- e-mail: publica@tarakan.demon.co.uk

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There IS an anti-war movement

28.10.2001 15:50

On Oct 13, anywhere from 40-50,000 people protested in London against the war!

Now that the cracks are showing, reports of civilian casualties are mounting, and the futility of this war is becoming apparent... many thousands more are likely to show up in the upcoming protest in London on Sunday 18 November.

The Stop The War demonstration meets
12 noon, Hyde Park, London on Sun 18 Nov.
Supported by the CND

Everyone should start mobilising their comrades immediately.

Let's make this demonstration twice as big as the last!

antiwar


One big demo a month is not enough...

28.10.2001 18:38

to stop the slaughter! I am talking about daily or at least weekly (mass) events.
Still three weeks to go for the next demo on 18 November.

publica
mail e-mail: publica@tarakan.demon.co.uk


you got time

28.10.2001 19:33

OK Chris we'll come
you orginise it and lots of people will turn up
you tell the pigs where and how many will turn up and all the rest of the sorting thats got to be done for a large scale demo
contact all the hundreads of anti war groups in england scotland and wales and book and pay for the coaches and do the publicity
how many posters do we need in every city?
how much will it cost?
book some speakers?
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busy bee


no war but the class war

29.10.2001 00:05

One group I've been involved with is No War But The Class War.

We meet weekly to discuss class based opposition to this and all wars. No to capitalist war, no to capitalist "peace".

We had a presense at the big demo, and a few of us also went to try and sabotage the TA armny recruitment fair yesterday.

On the Sunday that bombing started we had maybe 30 people taking the streets from Oxford Circus to parliament within a couple of hours of the first bombs falling in Afganistan.

Here is the No War but tbe Class War Statement of principles
from 1991
I. PRINCIPLES
1.1 NWBCW is an organisation opposed to all sides in
the current capitalist war in the Middle East. This
conflict is a battle between alliances of
blood-stained capitalist mass murderers for profit,
power and influence. Democratic or military, Zionist
or Islamic, all states involved in the current
conflict, whatever their relative military strengths,
are equally anti-working class.
1.2 We are for the destruction of the morale and
military capacity of all the warring states by the
escalation of the war of our class - the proletariat,
the workers and dispossessed of all countries -
against the enemy class - the rich, the politicians
and generals - on all fronts, including the home
fronts.
1.3 We are for an immediate end to the war, to be
forced on the opposing states by mass strikes and
other forms of working class action.
1.4 We are for united international action against the
war, on a class basis, and not on the basis of
pacifiism, or on calls for the capitalists to stop
being butchers. We do not plead with the gangsters of
Westminster, Washington and Baghdad - we make it clear
that they will not stop until we force them to stop.
1.5 We support working class action against austerity
measures, health and welfare cuts, internment and
repression in general resulting from the war effort.
1.6 We are against organisations who spread illusions
in the ability of capitalism to solve the problems of
the Middle East, who promote sanctions instead of war,
since sanctions are simply another way of pursuing the
war aims of the Western alliance, a way of starving
workers to soften them up, or those who support the
West's nationalist opponents in the Middle East on the
basis of 'anti-imperialism'. We are against those who
simply call for peace without taking she side of the
proletariat in the class war. When capitalism achieves
peace, it uses it to attack the working class. We are
against the Labour Party and its equivalents in other
countries, as a capitalist party which has supported
every war since its foundation, and against all those
who support it in any way.
1.7 We will work with other groupings and individuals
to the extent that they oppose all sides in the war on
a class basis, and that they are not simply trying to
use our group us "front" for their own specific
polities. We may also work with genuine opponents of
the war who do not support either side in any way, but
who disagree with other aspects of our politics. In
any case, we shall defend prisoners taken hostage as a
result of the war.
1.8 We are for the destruction of the international
dictatorship of capitalism by the working class, and
its replacement by an association of producers, a
world without states, frontiers and wage slavery, a
world where war in impossible.
2. BASIS
2.1 NWBCW is a propaganda group. Its activities are in
the public domain. Its activities include producing
propaganda attacking the capitalist war effort,
participating in demonstrations to attempt to
radicalise them where practical, and to use them to
defend our class opposition to war where not, exposing
media disinformation, and denouncing the war for what
it is - a holocaust for profit.

 http://www.new-labour.com/

ginger
- Homepage: http://www.new-labour.com/


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