Socialist Resistance

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Assembly of anti-war activists Call Blair to account! (continued)

Socialist Resistance no9  |  page 5

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could sue the UK government in UK courts or the US government in US courts for a breach of their obligations to honour peace and security.

For the Stop the War Coalition, Lindsay German highlighted the resignation of Alistair Campbell as an achievement for the anti-war movement. Without our move. ment, she said, there would have been no Hutton inquiry and no resignations. She encouraged activists to work to build a demonstration on September 27 comparable to that on September 28 last year

John Pilger talked about his work on a documentary with archive footage of Colin Declaration of the 2nd People's Assembly in March, declared that the impending Anglo-American attack was unlawful, unjustifiable and lacked the support of the British people.

This People's Assembly reaffirms Its opposition to that war and further declares: people and to Parliament about the threat from Iraq in order to manipulate opinion in support of his aggression. in particular, intelligence information was falsified to sustain the argument that the Iraqi regime possessed weapons of mass destruction which could be used at short notice. lent the diplomacy conducted by the British government through the United Nations prior to the attack on Iraq. to full public scrutiny. We need an inquiry into the whole war policy and the David Kelly alone occupation of Iraq, the transfer of political power in Iraq to representatives of the Iraqi people and the withdrawal of all British and US military forces from terror", including any attacks on Iran, North Korea, Syria, Cuba, Libya or elsewhere, and adopt instead a foreign policy based on principles of peace and social justice.

HE Powell and Condoleezza Rice in earty 2001 in Cairo admitting that Saddam Hussein had no WMD capability and was no threat -even to his own neighbours. He called the Hutton inquiry "a sham" but said that political consciousness had never been so high amongst the general public. The war, he said, was a grave disaster for the US, with higher casualties than were being publicly admitted. Military hospitals in Washington were "all full and overflowing". He called the current anti-war movement "the greatest international anti-war movement in my lifetime" and "the democratic opposition". The first People's Assembly, convened in London by the Stop the War Coalition That it is now clear that the goverment of Tony Blair systematically lied to the That this conduct represents a negation of democracy, and exposes as frauduThat the government should be held to account by the public and parliament for these lies and this assault on democracy, and that all its actions be opened thousands of deaths it caused and is still causing, not just the tragic death of D This People's Assembly further demands an end to the illegal Anglo-American We demand that the British government dissociate itself from all further wars of aggression planned by the US administration under the pretext of the "war on