Ben Lewis reports on the Stop the War Coalition’s annual conference, where underhand methods were once again deployed to reject the affiliation of Hands Off the People of Iran. Around 300 people attended the very ‘business as usual’ Stop the War Coalition annual conference on October 30. On offer were more or less the same timetable, ...
Cat Rylance attended the latest Stop the War demo On Saturday October 24 around 5,000 protestors marched through central London on the Stop the War Coalition-organised demonstration against the war in Afghanistan. Attendance was rather disappointing, especially in view of the fact it seemed virtually to have been promoted by the BBC. The ...
The most recent advancements made by the Sri Lankan government, in that country’s 30 year civil war, have evidenced sheer brutality. Whilst the official target of the government’s campaign is the notorious rebel group the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), this has frequently operated as a smokescreen for institutional persecution of the islands Tamil ...
Chris Strafford reports on last weekend's demonstrations. Additional reporting from around the country by Tony Greenstein and Mohsen Sabbagh With over 1,000 now dead in Gaza, demonstrations have been taking place across the world in protest against the massacre. On Saturday January 10 more than 100,000 marched from Hyde Park, past the Israeli embassy, to Kensington ...
STOP THE WAR ANNUAL CONFERENCE MARCH 14-15 SOUTH CAMDEN COMMUNITY SCHOOL CHARRINGTON STREET LONDON NW1 1RG Supporters of Communist Students and Hands Off the People of Iran are urged to make sure that they are members of Stop the War and attend this conference. Last year both groups were denied affiliation to Stop the War on the most ...
Mohsen Sabbagh saw a wholly unsatisfactory number of demonstrators in Manchester On Saturday September 20 the Stop the War Coalition, in conjunction with the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and Military Families Against the War, held a demonstration in Manchester to coincide with the Labour Party conference. It called for troops out of Iraq and Afghanistan and ...
Dave Isaacson experiences lies and deception at StW rally On Saturday September 6 the Stop the War Coalition held a pre-term national student meeting at Birkbeck College in London to try to rally the troops ahead of the upcoming freshers’ fairs, which will soon take place at universities across the UK. Though I forgot to do a ...
A report by Communist Students member Robbie Folkard This evening there was a quite interesting but uneventful rally held by Greater Manchester Stop the War Coalition featuring academic Terry Eagleton, 'Guardian' journalist Seamus Milne and Socialist Workers Party leader, John Rees. Most of the contributions were the usual deal, the importance and strength of Stop the War ...
In moves to sideline any criticism of the Iranian regime within the anti-war movement, Communist Students and Hands Off the People Of Iran (Hopi) have been barred from the Stop the War Coalition. Benjamin Klein calls for all principled anti-imperialists and democrats to fight this exclusion and to raise the banner of genuine internationalism Andrew Murray, ...
First published in Communist Student no.3 The Stop the War Coalition’s student grouping has censored a critical article on the question of Iran, submitted by CS member David Isaacson - an indication of the lack of democracy that still cripples much of the left Any Facebook-using comrades who looked at the new Stop the War Students group ...