WORLD AGAINST WAR CONFERENCE

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BOOK NOW FOR WORLD AGAINST WAR CONFERENCE
LONDON, SATURDAY 1 DECEMBER
WESTMINSTER CENTRAL HALL
Tickets for the international World Against War Conference on
Saturday 1 December can now be booked online (see
http://tinyurl.com/3cpum5) and many delegations from across the
world have already registered.

The conference is open to all and is clearly urgent, given George
Bush's insistence that we face "the spectre of World War III, if
Iran gains even the knowledge needed to make a nuclear weapon" -
wild talk clearly aimed at preparing the ground for an attack. Dr
El Baradei, the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency
says there is no evidence of a nuclear weaponisation programme in
Iran and that Bush should stop "hyping the issue that could mean
a major conflagration, and not only regionally but globally." The
Russian President puts it more colourfully. George Bush, he says,
is like "a madman running around with a razor".

Developing international co-ordination of opposition to Bush's
plans for war against Iran will be a central focus of the World
Against War Conference. Stop the War has already been contacted
by peace groups from Spain, Canada, South Korea and Germany to
start this process. Building links between the anti occupation
movements in the Middle East and the anti war movements in the
west will be particularly important and there will be speakers
from Iraq, including union leader Hassan Juma and Jawad Al
Khalisi from the Iraqi Foundation Congress, and from Iran, Egypt
and the Lebanon, from where we are expecting representatives from
Hezbollah and the Lebanese Communist Party.

All Stop the War local groups are being asked to build for this
important conference, pushing for delegations from unions,
colleges, mosques, churches, political organisations, including
local Labour, Liberal Democrat, Green party, and Respect
branches, local councillors groups, local campaigns and every
single anti-war organisation. This conference can be critical in
taking the next step for the anti war movement both in Britain
and across the world.

There is a new leaflet out for the conference, specially designed
by artist David Gentleman. Phone the Stop the War office on 020
7278 6694 to order the leaflet.

Booking for the conference can be made by post, telephone or
online: National delegates £25, Local delegates £15, individuals
£10 / £8. TO BOOK:
ONLINE: http://tinyurl.com/3cpum5
BY TELEPHONE: 0044 (0)207278 6694
BY POST: Cheques made payable to 'Stop the War Coalition'. Send
to Stop
the War Coalition, 27 Britannia Street, London WC1X 9JP.

WORLD AGAINST WAR CONFERENCE
LONDON, SATURDAY 1 DECEMBER
WESTMINSTER CENTRAL HALL
SPEAKERS CONFIRMED (more to follow):
Dennis Halliday, Hans Von Sponeck, former humanitarian
co-ordinators in Iraq, Hassan Juma, President Basra Oil Workers
Union, Jawad Al Khalassi, General Secretary Iraq Foundation
Congress; Hannah Ibrahim, Women's Will Iraq, Ivona Novomestská
Czech No Bases Campaign, A campaigning journalist from Iran, Mark
Thomas, campaigning comedian, Craig Murray, ex-British Ambassador
to Uzbeckhistan, Sami Ramadani, representatives from United for
Peace and Justice (US), Communist Party of Lebanon, UNT union
confederation, Venezuela,