International Anti-War Conference: speakers and sessions announced

Speakers

Diane Abbott MP, Tariq Ali author, Tony Benn president Stop the War, Jeremy Corbyn MP, Lindsey German convenor Stop the War, Edward Horgan Peace and Neutrality Alliance, Ireland, Kate Hudson General Secretary CND, Joan Humphreys Military Families Against the War, Owen Jones author, Mother Agnes Mariam nun based in Syria, Seumas Milne journalist, Manik Mukherjee All India Anti-imperialist Forum, Andrew

Murray Unite the Union, Explo Nani-Kofi
Kilombo, Ghana, Chris Nineham vice-chair
Stop the War, Mitra Qayoom Afghans for
Peace, Sami Ramadani Iraqi writer, John
Rees author and activist, Rachel Shabi
author and journalist, Jeremy Scahill
filmmaker, Dirty Wars, Jonathan Steele
author and journalist

Sessions

Imperialism, war and resistance, A very short history of British imperialism, Merchants

of death: drones and the arms trade, The new
scramble for Africa, Taking liberties:
surveillance, the state and Islamophobia, The
Syrian war in context, Nato: expansion and war,
Building the international movement

Background

In a historic setback for the organisers of the War on Terror, protest and public opinion helped stop a new war on Syria. But the West continues its interventions, creating failed states in an arc from Central Asia to West Africa.

The US is still focused on the middle east, but Obama is sending more military to encircle China and the West is ramping up its interventions in the African continent, creating ever more anger and instability.

Next year the NATO conference is coming to Britain and the conference will launch protests in response. It will also discuss the planned withdrawal from Afghanistan which is likely to cause another crisis for the western powers.

We need more effective anti war resistance internationally. This conference is a chance to analyse, build links and lay plans.

Time and date, venue and cost

• 10am-5pm (registration from 9am) Saturday 30
  November
• Emmanuel Centre Marsham Street, London
  SW1P 3DW
• Nearest stations Westminster and Victoria
• Full price ticket £15 concessions £10
  (unemployed/student/retired/low income)
  

Register

• Buy tickets
  online
• By telephone 020 7561 4830
• By post - cheques made payable to ’Stop

  the War Coalition’ -
  Stop the War, 86 Durham Road, London N7 7DT

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