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| John McDonnell MP and LRC chair speaking |
By New Worker Correspondent
SEVERAL hundred peace campaigners, including many Syrians
and Iranians, gathered outside the American embassy in Grosvenor
Square last Saturday to protest at the
preparations for new Nato aggression against Syria
and Iran.
The rally was
organised by the Stop the War Coalition (StWC) and supported by many
organisations, including a large delegation from the Occupy London protest.
Speakers included
Tony Benn, John Rees, national officer of StWC, Labour MP John McDonnell, CND
chair Kate Hudson, Iranian activist Shirin Shafaie, actor Roger Lloyd Pack,
Lyndsey German of StWC and many others. The event was chaired by Labour MP Jeremy Corbyn.
Protesters carried
banners saying: "Don't attack Iran"
and "Hands off Iran
and Syria",
while the crowd joined together in chanting: "One, two, three, four, we
don't want another war. Five, six, seven, eight, stop the killing, stop the
hate."
All condemned the double
standards of Nato and the western imperialists, whose motive was to control the
oil resources of the Middle East and warned that the
horrors that have been unleashed on Afghanistan,
Iraq and Libya
must not be allowed to happen in Syria
and Iran.
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