(source: CASMII UK)
Monday, October 29, 2007
The Stop the War Coalition annual conference on Saturday 27th October in London which was attended by 480 delegates and observers representing 118 local Stop the War groups, affiliated trade unions, political parties and various campaign organisations, such as the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) adopted CASMII’s resolution on Iran.
Among the prominent speakers at the conference were: Seumas Milne (Guardian columnist), George Galloway (MP), Phil Shiner (Lawyer of the Year), Kate Hudson (CND), Sami Ramidani (Iraqi Journalist), and Jeremy Corbyn (MP).
The central focus of the conference was the imminence of a US attack on Iran. It launched a day of action against an attack on Iran on November 24th (November 22nd in the colleges). In the background was the unprecedented escalation of the US war drive towards military confrontation with Iran by designating the Iranian Revolutionary Guards a terrorist organisation and by imposing the harshest set of sanctions against Iran since the 1979 Iranian Revolution.