SHUT IT DOWN!

Protest the new army recruitment centre in Cardiff
Saturday 3 June at 1.30
Wood Street (Opposite Bus station)

Demonstrate Saturday September 23rd at Labour Party Conference in Manchester

EU/ISRAEL:
Stop starving Palestinians!
Recognise Palestinian Democracy!
End Israel's Occupation!

National Demonstration for Justice for Palestine
Saturday 20 May
Assemble 12 Noon, Embankment
Rally in Trafalgar Square

Coach details: Leave Bedwas depot, 7.30 am, Cardiff Museum steps 8.00 am,
Newport Bus Station 8.30 am
To book a place please call
Beaty (PSC Sec) on 07910524804 or
Sue on 029 20493980 / 07790962764
Email: sue@slent.wanadoo.co.uk

Hands off Iran

Ms. Roudabeh Safeh, Founder of Action Iran - Campaign against Military
Intervention in Iran will be speaking on April 28th in the Quaker Meeting
House, Charles Street, Cardiff at 7 pm.
Admission Free! Not to be missed!

STRAW OUT 'OVER IRAN'?

Bob Roberts Deputy Political Editor, Daily Mirror:

"JACK Straw was sacked as Foreign Secretary because he opposed an attack against Iran, it was claimed yesterday.
He said last month attacking the country to stop its nuclear programme was "nuts". But Tony Blair later told MPs that while "nobody is talking about a military invasion" now was "not the time to send a message of weakness".
George Bush was reportedly furious at Straw.
Yesterday friends of Mr Straw said his fate was sealed in a phone call from the White House.
Condoleezza Rice's visit to Blackburn is said to have irritated Blairites as Straw milked the US Secretary of State's trip.
And the PM allegedly called Mr Straw a "tart" in a row over Europe."

IS THE US BEHIND THE DEATH SQUADS IN IRAQ?
One of the most common claims in support of the occupation of Iraq is that if the troops leave there will be civil war - but what if the sectarian violence was actually being fueled by the US secret services?

Max Fuller will be speaking in Cardiff in a few weeks, full details to be announced shortly, on his seminal investigation into how the pattern of death squad activities in Iraq, often attributed to Shi'ia militias under the control of the Iraqi Ministry of the Interior, replicates the pattern of US trained death squads operating in South America, most obviously El Salvador.

His groundbreaking work on sectarian violence has drawn praise from John Pilger and has formed the basis for a more informed understanding of "The Salvador Option" in Iraq.

Two important articles for every anti-war activist to read:
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.p...articleId=1230
http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/FUL506A.html

"Max Fuller has written the most important article of the year and perhaps the decade. In his Crying Wolf: Media Disinformation and Death Squads in Occupied Iraq, Fuller painstakingly lays out the details and documentation to prove that the United States intelligence agencies are behind the vast incidents of murder and torture being carried out in Iraq today. If Fuller’s thesis is correct, then the War on Terror, that mighty engine of imperial carnage, is nothing more than a public relations scam to enlist public support."
Mike Whitney, US Anti-war movement

Adam Johannes
Secretary
Cardiff Stop the War Coalition
(07940 108 146)

BBC DEMO
 4th April at 1 pm,
Lunchtime

BBC Wales
Broadcasting House
Llantrisant Road
Llandaff
Cardiff

Embedded with the military in Iraq.
Embedded with the political establishment at home.

The BBC refused to cover the global demonstrations against the occupation of
Iraq, just as it has spent the last year justifying why it refused to cover
the use of chemical weapons and the massacre at Fallujah.  Pro-war
politicians are interviewed all the time, yet anti-war voices are censored.
Join a series of demonstrations for a free media and a free Iraq taking
place across the UK: Tony Blair lied/lies to the public, the media repeats
his lies.

Bring placards, posters & banners exposing the media's complicity with
attrocity in Iraq!

NEXT EVENT -

CONDI GO HOME!

Huge protests greeted the woman who one local newspaper described as the
most unwelcome visitor to Merseyside since fascist leader Oswald Moseley.

Full reports here: www.stopwar.org.uk

MARCH 18th

Up to 100,000 people marched in London and demonstrations took place in 250
cities including Baghdad and Basra in occupied Iraq.

 

The 18 March London Demo

 On a bitterly cold and windy Saturday tens of thousands of people gathered in Parliament Square from across the country at the start of the London demonstration. Tables were set up to collect signatures for the Tony Benn UN/Attorney General letter calling for the war criminals to be brought to account. A British demonstration finally caught up with the 21st century as others were able to send text messages to add their names to the petition.  The Theatre of War enacted a ‘trial’ of Tony Blair, kitted out in robes and wigs. David Gentleman organised a team from early in the morning to lay out the 100,000 blood spots which covered half of the Square and cartoons from Ralph Steadman, Leon Kuhn and Nicholas Wood were displayed before being mounted at the rally in Trafalgar Square. The police chased a man with a sign saying ‘Give War a Chance’ and questioned him closely, clearly lacking any sense of irony. Shame they don’t chase the man who gives war every chance. The march set off along Victoria Street, behind Buckingham Palace and along Piccadilly to Trafalgar Square. As the front of the march arrived in the Square the tail was leaving Parliament. By the time the last marchers arrived in the Square most of the speeches were over. Speakers included London Mayor, Ken Livingstone, Tony Benn, Hassan Zargani (Al Sadr Movement, Iraq), trade union leaders, MP’s Jeremy Corbyn and George Galloway, ex-ambassador Craig Murray, Brian Eno and Military Families Against The War. Some of the loudest cheers were reserved for Ben Griffin, the ex-SAS trooper who refused to return to Iraq, and who accused the ‘Coalition’ forces of war crimes. There was a massive foreign media presence and less than overwhelming interest from the BBC. The demo was totally ignored on the evening TV news and when we asked them why were told there were too few people present to make it newsworthy. Questioned about their estimate on numbers the BBC quoted the Metropolitan Police figure of 15,000. Asked whether they always believed the police figures the answer was, No, not always but this time yes. We estimate that this demonstration attracted the support of between 80 - 1000,000 people and we can add  that the Saturday marchers represent majority opinion in this country who demand that our troops be pulled out of Iraq, for there to be no attack on Iran and for the defence of the Muslim community. And the future? As Stop the War Coalition’s John Rees has put it: ‘so long as they continue to kill we will continue to march.’