| On Thursday, September 25th Newcastle and South Tyneside Stop the War Coalitions held a protest, called at short notice at the Monument at 5.30pm giving out leaflets and talking to people. The protest was called at the same time as Stop the War's national protest in Downing Street because David Cameron, the Coalition Prime Minister, has recalled Parliament to get MPs to back his plan to join the US in carrying out bombing in Syria and Iraq. The protest called on passers by to contact their MPs -via the Stop the War website and demand that they do not to vote for any further military intervention in Iraq and Syria. Should they vote to support Cameron, Britain will once again be carrying out direct military intervention in Iraq three years after its forces withdrew from Iraq and whilst its forces are still occupying Afghanistan. Isis now in Syria and Iraq is in part a product of the criminal and disastrous occupation of Iraq by the Western powers. Cameron and Obama want to use this as an excuse to get a consensus for military intervention in Iraq and Syria. The US is already violating the sovereignty of Iraq and Syria with its bombing in those countries. The supply of Western military equipment and the funding for these armed groups like ISIS must be stopped so that the people and countries of the Middle East can resolve these conflicts themselves without the interference from the big powers, who are responsible for creating these conflicts in the first place. The protest demanded that Parliament reject Cameron’s plan for more war. The people of Britain want an anti-war government that gives up its direct, and indirect military interventions abroad permanently. Newcastle Stop the War Coaliton made the announcement that it would plan its next steps pending the outcome of the recalled Parliamentary session on Friday. |