No applause for John Rees, a possible reconciliation with George Galloway and behind-the-scenes attempts to wrest control of the Stop the War Coalition away from the Rees-German SWP minority … despite its dull title, the January 24 STWC ‘national activists meeting’ was not without interest, report Tina Becker and Simon Wells Around 60 people attended the ...
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 ...
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, ...