ED LED Socialist campaign for a no vote has to be built on internationalist basis ed such a discussion on a major issue of European politics. The conference had been preceded by a series of debates in the local alliances, which had generally reflected the outcome of the conference. The decision places the SA in a position to piay a major roie in the event of a referendum in buiding a principled, working class opposition Euro counterposed to the Tory right.
Without that, not only would the MONDAY 9 DECEMBER 2002 (7PM) The Bar Human Rights Committee introKurdish Human Rights Project 0th Anniversary Lecture given by Professor Noam Chomsky. Venue St Paul's Cathedral (Doors open 6pm). Adults £15 / Concessions £8. For tickets please contact 0870 900 4555. If you would like further information about the event or would like to pay by cheque, please contact Hannah at KHRP on 020
For email vaughanTUESDAY 10 DECEMBER 2002(1pm) Labour Against the War public meeting at the House of Commons (Attlee Room).
renowned speaker: Noam (1pm) SATURDAY 14 DECEMBER 2002 Mass Weapons Inspection of USAF Fairford: Regional Demonstration called by Bristol Stop the War: Fairford Airforce Base (Gloucestershire) in response to the arrival of US Stealth Bombers. Bristol Stop the War call on everyone to plan for this regional demonstration, book coaches now. Please contact [email protected] for more info, & to declare the involvement of your local group The Gloucestershire Weapons Inspectors are coming: http://www.gwi.org.uk Fairford is 10 miles north of Swindon & 20 miles west of Oxford. Fairford is on the A417 going east to west. Or along the A36l going north to south, turning onto the A417 at Lechlade village. USAF Fairford is 10 minutes walk from Fairford Village. TUESDAY 2I JANUARY 2003 Lobby of Parliament: organised by No War on Iraq Liaison Group and CND Supported by the Stop the War Coalition. No further details at present. SATURDAY 15 FEBRUARY 2003 Stop the War Coalition National Demonstration - London: This event is still at the planning stage, further details when available STOP THE CITY if Iraq is attacked: Bristol-Stop-The-War (ongoing) Peace Vigil: Mon-Fri 5.30-6.30 & Sat 3.004.00 (opposite the Hippodrome, city centre). These times will be open-ended in the event of war. In the event that Iraq is attacked everyone should converge at the Peace Vigil on the evening following the outbreak of war.
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Is expected the Islamist AK Party A say % of the voc. the CHP
about 37% of the vote. The CHP (a populist party founded by Ataturk and not recently experienced in government) came second and was the only other party to get over the 10% (of votes in each province) threshold - ironically enough put in place some time ago to prevent Kurdish parties from gaining representation in solid Kurdish areas in Kurdistan.
A few independents standing outside party structures were also elected. The parties which formed the last government (Ecevit's DSP, the far-right nationalist MHP and ANAP) and even Mrs Ciller's DYP were spectacularly consigned to the dustbin of history, achieving in all cases less than 10% and in some cases less than 3%, dismissed by voters who are angry and fed up with Turkish anti-war protestor grabbed by police: Turkey is key to the US war effort against Iraq • Winter 2002 19 weapon in the armoury required for "democratising" the Middle East. •No doubt as long as the new government complains "moderately" loudly, for public consumption, about not wanting a war with Iraq, but in practice lets the US and British use the air bases in. North West Kurdistan, the US will be happy.
Whether the widespread unpopularity of the war will lead to a strong antiwar movement remains to be seen.
Probably the AK victory does not much affect the prospects of whether the military will mount a big occupation of South Kurdistan (Northern Iraq) during the US war on Iraq, and seize the largely Kurdish cities of Mosul and Kerkuk which sit on a large part of the region's oil reserves.
Amongst many Kurds in South A
Kurdistan and in the diaspora there is great fear of an invasion