Anti-War Activists Call for Emergency Protest in London

Local Editor

Anti-war activists have called an emergency protest outside Downing Street in London on Thursday evening, as Britain’s Prime Minister David Cameron says the UK is ready to "play its part" in airstrikes on so-called "Daesh" [ISIL] targets in Iraq.

As British MPs prepare to vote on UK intervention on Friday, the Stop the War coalition is calling on them to resist the planned assault.

A Stop the War national officer, Chris Nineham, said that, "When MPs blocked Cameron’s last push for airstrikes, on Syria a year ago, they stopped Obama launching attacks too. A no vote could help reverse the drift towards another full-scale western war in the Middle East."

"Escalating Western military intervention will do nothing to stop [ISIL] but will create more suffering and further destabilise the region," Stop the War said, warning that bombing raids will only increase hatred of the west.

The Stop the War Coalition, which organized millions of people in mass protests to oppose the 2003 Iraq invasion, say any further western military intervention will only inflame the situation.

Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team