| Opposition to bombing Syria is growing. There have been protests up and down the country. Britain's biggest trade unions Unite and Unison have come out against it as have a long list of student leaders and a whole range of high profile figures from former UN Assistant Secretary General Hans Von Sponeck to former NATO General Sir Richard Shirreff. Despite the fact that his case for war is starting to unravel, David Cameron has decided to push ahead with the vote, emboldened by support from some senior Labour figures. Almost all the main proponents of a new war supported the catastrophic invasion of Iraq in 2003 and the disastrous bombing of Libya in 2011. December 1 Once again people protested against the plans to drag us into a fourth war in 14 years. Thousands filled Paliament Square in London at 6pm and elsewhere around the country to say Don't Bomb Syria. A large rally at Newcastle Monument of nearly 400 people protested against Cameron's plans to bomb Syria in the wake of the terrorist atrocities in Paris. The rally which was held on the eve of the vote in Parliament was addressed by 8 representatives from parties, organisations and campaign groups in the region opposed to the war. The rally sent a loud message to Cameron and to Parliament that all the efforts should go into a political solution for peace and that war is not a solution to terrorism and never has been. The rally highlighted the need for an anti-war government in Britain and that the message to Parliament tomorrow was don't attack, or bomb, Syria. The rally called on people to, even at this late stage, do everything they could to stop MPs voting for war the next day. December 2 In London during the day of the vote, activists will be present with banners outside parliament from 12 midday and we have called a further protest and a die-in at Parliament Square at 6.00pm against the plan to take the UK into yet another pointless and savage war before MPs vote at 10pm. |