against Iraq. between Iraq and terrorists. That leaves the
their views on the issue. take him at his word." This is the imperialist equivalent of British Rail's age old excuse of trains being late
It is a poor attempt to cover up the failway he can.
treatment of captured US
soldiers is an outrageous breach of the Geneva complaints from over the issue. Washington emanate from the same country refusing to grant Guantanamo prisoners from the Afghanistan war POW status? Is it the same state, accused by Amnesty International of using violence,
humiliation against detainees held indefinitely without trial? Didn't it's president boast of using summary executions as an instrument of "justice"? of the war. But what is a military target? Just days after the British media mourned the death of IT journalist Terry Lloyd in a "friendly fire" incident, the same media reported that the missiles and bombs had been consciously directed at Iraq's television headquarters -clearty aiming to kill as many Iraqi television Labour councillors quit over war A LABOUR councillor in Gravesham has given up his seat in protest at the conflict
Shahid Aslam has also quit the Labour Party and is calling for people to use their vote in the May local elections to express
Mr Aslam has labelled the Government's policy over war as "morally bankrupt". He stressed: "Tony Blair called for the population of this country to let him know what they think at the ballot box. With the local elections looming, I would urge people to
Mr Aslam, who is also a solicitor and a magistrate, said the Labour government had chosen "to ignore the vast majority of public and international opinion, not to mention international law".
He has now offered the Gravesend Stop The War Campaign his full support and says he will help local peace campaigners in any
Following Shahid Aslam's resignation, five more Kent Labour councillors have openly joined the peace movement. And some are also considering resigning from the Party Brum Party on brink of collapse In parts of BIRMINGHAM, the Labour Party's campaign for next month's counci elections has been thrown into chaos by the decision of increasing numbers of key activists not to work for the Party as a result
A desperate March 20 letter from would-be Sutton Coldfield candidate Dr Rob Pocock - who carefully avoids giving his view on the war - has asked Party members to indicate whether or not they feel Labour should stand a candidate this year, and whether, in the light of a refusal by the branch officers and the previous party agent to do any campaign work, they would be willing to step in and deliver leaflets. More than 120 came along to a Hastings Labour MP for Hastings and Rother, defended his decision to resign as PPS to the Attorney General over the legitimacy of the war, only to abstain in both votes in the Commons when challenged to join in the anti-war protests (as the Labour leader and deputy leader of the council have) he pointedly declined Straw faces die-in Around 50 anti-war protestors staged a wake-up call, and a die-in close to Jack Straw's home early on 19 March. Gathered at two possible exits from Straw's house, they delayed the Foreign Secretary's depar ture by over 30 minutes
The protestors gathered at Oval tube station at 6.30am and marched close to Jack Straw's house bearing a coffin emblazoned with the slogan "War is not the answer." Others carried five gravestones highlighting the 500,000 dead and wounded that the UN predicts will result from war. Smith under seige In OXFORD, Straw's cabinet colleague Andrew Smith has begun complaining that the persistent lobbies of his "surgery" ses sions are preventing him meeting local people to discuss other issues
Crowds of around 150 have been surging around Smith's attempts to forget the war he has helped unleash, and the local Oxford Mail newspaper has felt obliged to rally round in his defence with an editoria opposing calls for his deselection.
The City centre has repeatedly been