building up.
In fact the movement today also expresses something entirely new in British politics: the alliance now formed between the labour and trade union movement and the Muslim and Asian community •••• Turkish campaigners get organised The weekend of the 14/15 September saw an important step forward for the anti-war movement in Turkey. A conference was held in Istanbul which brought together representatives from the Palestinians and the anti-Zionist Israeli left together with trades unionists from Turkey and others from the anti-war movement in Europe.
Called under the 'No to War Platform' the conference attracted over 150 activists and delegates. This is a tremendous achievement in Turkey where organising is fraught with difficulty. Even on the day of the conference the Turkish police made their presence known both outside and inside the venue.
The first day heard an international platform of speakers caution. and and caution. ated those Bush,
From Henry Kissinger to Brent Scowcroft
'Stormin Norman Schwarzkopf: all urged delay
Of course this delay infurisurrounding with Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, the Iraqi regime Condaleezza Rice, Richard Perle and Vice-President Dick Cheney all pushing for an immediate attack.
In early January 2002 this group took the decision to attack Iraq. Pentagon briefing papers looked at using bat- Iranian troops tlefield nuclear weapons - According so called mini-nukes, in any future attacks. What united this group was their determination to remove Saddam Hussein as soon as politically and militarily possible
Soon after September I| 2001 they saw the extended possibilities of what Bush time but also encouraged. In 1984, Donald Rumsfeld met with Saddam Hussein in Baghdad on the very day of a mustard gas attack on
to Bob Woodward, the respected Washington Post journalist, the US continuously sup- Iraq is only the second desplied the Iraqi regime with the information necessary to
Nations to demand action .......ding 600 senior staff.
Moscow. Bolton's task was Putin was offered the carbe the end of this new doc. trine. The hawks are already eyeing Iran using the same lies.
These developments have the character of a new world war. The war against terror is extended now to include tyranny'.
Let us heed the words of Nelson Mandela "The US thinks it is the only power in the world. One country wants to bully the world."
The US thought that the road to war would proceed smoothly through the United Nations but we should not doubt their determination for war:
They should not underestimate our determination to stop them