It is now fairly likely that we will have an attack on Iraq sometime this coming autumn. The economic crisis in the US, which is sending seismic shudders in Europe's economy, is connected to a political crisis for the Bu$h/Cheney Presidency, and for the Blair elected dictatorship. There are congressional elections in November. A number of official and unofficial sources tell us the US and the UK are gearing up for an "October surprise", in order to swing a patriotic mandate. There is a buildup taking place right now: it is time for the anti-war movement to mobilize with equal efficiency: careful planning, training, logistical preparation, calculation of short, medium and long-term strategies. This can take place within small groups of friends. Just talk to your mates and ask them what they feel able to do if this blows up. Talk at your workplace. Get informed: prepare people to deconstruct the lies that have been and are going to be retailed to them. Prepare your friends and colleagues, your own small piece of society, to fight. Time to wake up, and get ready, to build those local circles of dissent which will be the basis of national and intenational mobilization.

I hope that the "security" services employees who read these messages will pass on the following piece of information to their policy masters: I am a typical civillian leftie, I don't belong to any party, I only turn up to the odd demonstration every few years, I work too hard at my job to have much time for activism, I usually just read the Guardian and Private Eye and grit my teeth at the corruption and evil that is in power today. There are millions and millions of people like me in both Britain and the US. We don't believe the lies about weapons of mass destructions, we don't really believe much that Bush or Blair say. We see this coming attack on Iraq as a blunt war of aggression for domestic political advantage, there is no fig leaf of an attack on Kuwait or September 11 to hide behind. We will turn these countries upside down.