Vote No to War!
- Stop the War Coalition
Statement -
Stop the War urges all voters to consider the
significance
of this election for our foreign policy and the increasingly
dangerous international situation.
The wars that recent
British governments have participated in in Afghanistan, Iraq,
Libya, Syria and elsewhere have killed and displaced millions,
destabilized whole regions of the globe and wasted an
unimaginable amount of resources.
Britain has long been the U.S.'s main supporter in
the West.
Recently our government has broadly backed Trump's
confrontational stance over Iran. It has armed and given full
political and military support to Saudi Arabia while it creates
the world's worst humanitarian catastrophe in its war on Yemen.
It has co-operated in ongoing operations in Syria and Iraq.
Meanwhile Britain has backed the U.S.'s
increasingly
aggressive
stance towards Russia and China, raising the prospect of big
power confrontation for the first time in generations.
The belligerent foreign policy that comes with the
special
relationship is making the world a more and more frightening and
dangerous place. It has been one of the drivers of racism and
Islamophobia and it has led to attacks on civil liberties at
home.
Trump has already been welcomed twice to Britain
by the
Tories. Boris Johnson will be greeting him once again at the NATO
summit in Britain on December 3. Stop the War will be protesting
at the summit.
We urge people to use their vote to help break the
cycle of
violence and instability caused by the West's wars of the last
two decades. A fundamental change of course is needed.
This article was published in
Volume 49 Number 26 - November 10, 2019
Article Link:
Vote No to War! - Stop the War Coalition
Statement
Website: www.cpcml.ca
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