The meaning for international war and peace of Donald Trump’s election in the United States will be just one item under discussion when peace campaigners are to address an anti-war convention in London.
Other questions to be analysed by the Stop the War Coalition include: What is behind israel’s genocide in Gaza? And why does the media not tell the truth about wars and militarism?
They will all go under the spotlight as the coalition moves to deepen and strengthen its movement at its Anti-War Convention: Stop the Drive to War! in London, between midday and 5pm on Sunday (November 17, 2024).
Speakers will include the poet and presenter Michael Rosen [pictured], the British-Palestinian plastic surgeon and Rector of the University of Glasgow Ghassan Abu-Sittah, Fran Heathcote, general secretary of the PCS trade union, the journalist Peter Oborne and Jeremy Corbyn MP.
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Attendees will also hear from Stop the War convenor Lindsey German, TSSA general secretary Maryam Eslamdoust, journalist and activist Taj Ali, SOAS Palestine society president Haya Adam, Mohammed Kozbar of the Finsbury Park Mosque and Declassified co-founder Matt Kennard.
And just added to the speaker line-up are the human rights barrister Michael Mansfield, holocaust survivor Stephen Kapos and the new CND general secretary Sophie Bolt.
The convention will include sessions on Imperialism, Islamophobia and the Far Right, Sudan and the crisis in Africa, and the policing and politics of protest.
The coalition’s representatives are deeply concerned that, from the Middle East to Eastern Europe, the world faces permanent war. Great power conflicts loom, risking global conflagration.
The convention will bring together leading campaigners, commentators, experts, activists and trade unionists to assess the situation in the Middle East, Ukraine and the Asia Pacific and to discuss how to strengthen the resistance.
“Trump’s decisive victory in the US presidential election has undoubtedly put him in a strong position and poses new challenges for the anti-war movement in Britain and internationally,” said Stop the War convenor Lindsey German.
“The timing of our convention could not be more critical.
“Trump won for a range of reasons, perhaps most importantly economic discontent. But his victory also owes much to the refusal of traditionally Democrat voters to endorse Joe Biden and Kamala Harris’ support for Israel’s genocide in Gaza and for extending the war on the Palestinians to Lebanon.
“Clearly a Harris victory would not have stopped Israel’s drive to war across the Middle East. But Trump’s close relationship with Benjamin Netanyahu and his policies in the region could well enable it to pursue its ambitions, including full control of Gaza and the West Bank.
“We face an extremely dangerous situation worldwide, with a growing arms race. We in the anti-war movement must redouble our efforts to end the genocide and wars in the Middle East. We also need the west to stop arming Ukraine if there is to be any chance of peace there, and for an end to the escalation of militarism and conflict aimed at China in the Pacific.”
The convention will be held at The Atrium, London, E2 6EJ. Buy tickets here: https://www.stopwar.org.uk/events/anti-war-convention-stop-the-drive-to-war/
The Stop the War Coalition was founded in September 2001 in the weeks following 9/11, when George W Bush announced the “war on terror”. Stop the War has since been dedicated to preventing and ending the wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and elsewhere.
StW exists to oppose the British establishment’s “disastrous addiction to war and its squandering of public resources on militarism”, and it has initiated many campaigns around these issues.
It is one of the six organisations behind the pro-Palestinian national demonstrations which have seen hundreds of thousands of people take to the streets of London, demanding a ceasefire in Gaza.
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Peace campaigners are to address an anti-war convention in London
The meaning for international war and peace of Donald Trump’s election in the United States will be just one item under discussion when peace campaigners are to address an anti-war convention in London.
Other questions to be analysed by the Stop the War Coalition include: What is behind israel’s genocide in Gaza? And why does the media not tell the truth about wars and militarism?
They will all go under the spotlight as the coalition moves to deepen and strengthen its movement at its Anti-War Convention: Stop the Drive to War! in London, between midday and 5pm on Sunday (November 17, 2024).
Speakers will include the poet and presenter Michael Rosen [pictured], the British-Palestinian plastic surgeon and Rector of the University of Glasgow Ghassan Abu-Sittah, Fran Heathcote, general secretary of the PCS trade union, the journalist Peter Oborne and Jeremy Corbyn MP.
Buy Cruel Britannia in print here. Buy the Cruel Britannia ebook here. Or just click on the image!
Attendees will also hear from Stop the War convenor Lindsey German, TSSA general secretary Maryam Eslamdoust, journalist and activist Taj Ali, SOAS Palestine society president Haya Adam, Mohammed Kozbar of the Finsbury Park Mosque and Declassified co-founder Matt Kennard.
And just added to the speaker line-up are the human rights barrister Michael Mansfield, holocaust survivor Stephen Kapos and the new CND general secretary Sophie Bolt.
The convention will include sessions on Imperialism, Islamophobia and the Far Right, Sudan and the crisis in Africa, and the policing and politics of protest.
The coalition’s representatives are deeply concerned that, from the Middle East to Eastern Europe, the world faces permanent war. Great power conflicts loom, risking global conflagration.
The convention will bring together leading campaigners, commentators, experts, activists and trade unionists to assess the situation in the Middle East, Ukraine and the Asia Pacific and to discuss how to strengthen the resistance.
“Trump’s decisive victory in the US presidential election has undoubtedly put him in a strong position and poses new challenges for the anti-war movement in Britain and internationally,” said Stop the War convenor Lindsey German.
“The timing of our convention could not be more critical.
“Trump won for a range of reasons, perhaps most importantly economic discontent. But his victory also owes much to the refusal of traditionally Democrat voters to endorse Joe Biden and Kamala Harris’ support for Israel’s genocide in Gaza and for extending the war on the Palestinians to Lebanon.
“Clearly a Harris victory would not have stopped Israel’s drive to war across the Middle East. But Trump’s close relationship with Benjamin Netanyahu and his policies in the region could well enable it to pursue its ambitions, including full control of Gaza and the West Bank.
“We face an extremely dangerous situation worldwide, with a growing arms race. We in the anti-war movement must redouble our efforts to end the genocide and wars in the Middle East. We also need the west to stop arming Ukraine if there is to be any chance of peace there, and for an end to the escalation of militarism and conflict aimed at China in the Pacific.”
The convention will be held at The Atrium, London, E2 6EJ. Buy tickets here: https://www.stopwar.org.uk/events/anti-war-convention-stop-the-drive-to-war/
The Stop the War Coalition was founded in September 2001 in the weeks following 9/11, when George W Bush announced the “war on terror”. Stop the War has since been dedicated to preventing and ending the wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and elsewhere.
StW exists to oppose the British establishment’s “disastrous addiction to war and its squandering of public resources on militarism”, and it has initiated many campaigns around these issues.
It is one of the six organisations behind the pro-Palestinian national demonstrations which have seen hundreds of thousands of people take to the streets of London, demanding a ceasefire in Gaza.
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