تظاهرات درمقابل کنفرانس حزب کارگر

ائتلاف ضد جنگ در لندن همگان را برای تظاهرات علیه حضور نظامی ارتش انگلیس در افغانستان و عراق فرا می خواند. این تظاهرات 20 سپتامر درمقابل کنفرانس حزب کارگر انجام میگیرد. با تمام نیرو دراین کارزار شرکت کنید . ازخواست فوری و بی قید و شرط خروج ارتش متجاوز انگلیس از خاک عراق و افغانستان حمایت کنید و انزجارخودرا ازفجایع جاری درعراق و افغانستان ابراز نمائید.

Written by Stop the War Coalition

Monday, 04 August 2008
The Iraq war is a continuing disaster. Politicians and generals talk up the success of the 'surge', but Iraqis are still dying in large numbers every week.
People lack clean water, electricity, and a working health system because the country has been wrecked by occupation. The majority of Iraqis want foreign troops to go, but the US and its allies are insisting on permanent military bases and the US control of Iraqi oil.

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Meanwhile we are told Afghanistan is a good war. The facts tell a different story. Aid agencies announced last week that violence in Afghanistan has reached its worst level since 2001. This is reflected in the rising death toll of British troops now averaging two per week. The media hardly mention the number of Afghan dead, but it is rising fast partly because bombing raids have been stepped up.
As the joint NGO statement from ACBAR released last week says NATO air strikes are up 40% on last year and "searches conducted by Afghan and international forces have on some occasions involved excessive use of force, extra judicial killings, destruction of property and/or mistreatment of suspects".
The UN also reports that the violence is making aid efforts almost impossible at a time when drought and high food prices are forcing thousands into life - threatening poverty. While supporters of the war in the west talk of reconstruction, on the ground the few schools and clinics that have been functioning are being threatened with closure by the violence caused by occupation.
It is a disgrace that New Labour is still supporting these wars. Gordon Brown has promised to schedule getting the troops out of Iraq, but there are still thousands there and the government has increased its war budget this year. The billions being spent on war could be used to invest in housing, pensions and services.
For all these reasons Stop the War is calling for the widest possible support for the demonstration at Labour's conference on September 20th. Please tell your friends and workmates about the demonstration.