100,000 march against war and nukes

UP TO 100,000 marchers joined the Troops Out/No Trident demonstration on 24 February, calling for all occupying troops to be withdrawn from Iraq, no replacement of Britain’s nuclear weapons system and no attack on Iran.

LINDSEY GERMAN, Convenor of Stop the War, told marchers: “Tony Blair says the war on Iraq is not his fault. He took us into war on lies. He is responsible for the death of 655,000 Iraqis. He wants to site the Star Wars US nuclear defence system here. He wants to spend money on Trident not on hospitals and schools.

Blair had to announce the withdrawal of 1,500 troops from Iraq this week. Our movement made him announce that. Now he wants to send 1,000 extra troops to Afghanistan. We want the troops home from there too.

We are fed up with a government that is addicted to war, that is spreading from Afghanistan to Iraq, Somalia to Lebanon. Now they want to attack Iran. If they do we will be on the streets in even greater numbers. We will demonstrate and take action until all these wars are at an end."

www.stopwar.org.uk