Troops out of Iraq now!

Five years since the invasion

Called by Stop the War Coalition, CND and BMI

Saturday 15 March, Assemble 12 noon, Trafalgar Square, London

• 1,220,580 Iraqis killed since the invasion. Almost one in two households in Baghdad have lost a family member.
• Over 170 UK troops and over 3,900 US troops killed.
• Global military spending for 2007- $1.2 trillion
• The UK spent £7.44 billion and the Ministry of Defence estimates that the cost of war and occupation in Iraq between 2002 and 2006 was £5.17 billion.
• Baghdad - 8 hours of electricity supply a day. Only a third of the city is connected to water mains. Life expectancy in Afghanistan - 46 years.
• No to all imperialist wars and occupations.
• For the immediate withdrawal of the troops from Iraq and Afghanistan!
• For an immediate and drastic cut in military spending worldwide.
• A global campaign against nuclear, chemical and biological weapons.
• For the right of the Iraqi and Afghan people to determine their own future.
• For a new mass party for working people in Britain - a powerful ally for the anti-war movement.
• For workers' unity and socialist internationalism!




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No to terrorism! No to racism! No to war!

Birmingham Socialist Party: Iraq - 10 years since the invasion

Iraq: Ten years after 'shock and awe'

15 February 2003: A million on the streets to stop the war

Asylum - What We Say

Troops:

Afghanistan war: end this 'pointless waste of life'

Step Up Action Against This Bloody War

Quick Victory But Lasting Turmoil

Opposing Imperialist War...

Invasion:

Iraq Invasion - Igniting Arab Opinion

Iraq: The Chaos Of Imperialist Occupation

Iraq war: Labour's lie machine

War:

Anti-war march against drones

Books that inspired me

Afghanistan:

Huddersfield Socialist Party: The future for Afghanistan