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30 BILLION REASONS TO JOIN ANTI-CUTS MARCH

by Open-Publishing - Friday 25 March 2011

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CUT WARFARE NOT WELFARE
ANTI-WAR / PEACE CONTINGENT
STOP THE WAR, CND & BMI ON THE
TUC ANTI-CUTS DEMONSTRATION
SATURDAY 26 MARCH: ASSEMBLE 11AM
HMS PRESIDENT, VICTORIA EMBANKMENT
(Near Blackfriars Bridge. MAP HERE: http://bit.ly/e0NFYr )

The TUC anti-cuts march on 26 March could be the largest in
Britain since the two million strong Stop the War march against
the Iraq war in 2003.

Stop the War, CND and BMI will have a combined anti-war / peace
contingent on the march. Our slogans will be Cut warfare Not
Welfare and Scrap Trident and we will be calling for the
withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan and an end to the
intervention in Libya.

We will also be highlighting the cost of wars in Afghanistan and
Libya in the context of draconian cuts in public services. We
calculate that, if you combine the spending over the next four
years on the Afghanistan war with the cost of maintaining the
Trident missile system, you get a total of £30 billion — which
is one third of the total cuts the government is making in public
services (for more details on the cost of war, including Libya,
go to: http://bit.ly/h7Brvc )

The anti-war / peace contingent meets at Embankment by HMS
President (near Blackfriars bridge) at 11 am. Please join us if
you can and bring your banners. If you would like to join our
team of volunteers who will be distributing leaflets, placards
etc, then please be at the same location at the earlier time of
9am.