StopTheWar2.png Stop the War Newsletter, 14 September 2015 Power to the Peaceful! Jeremy Corbyn's fantastic victory in the Labour party leadership election is a huge tribute to him as an MP and campaigner. It is also the result of years of campaigning by the movements against war and austerity. Jeremy has always supported Stop the War, which has played an important part in building anti-war and peace sentiment in Britain, and he is currently our national chair. Corbyn Peace.png Labour members and supporters have delivered a fitting riposte to the terrible legacy of Tony Blair, who helped launch the 'war on terror' and took us into the catastrophic war in Iraq. But we know that the Tory government and its media supporters will continue to press for wars and military solutions, despite the obvious failure of such strategies. Jeremy's victory sends a strong message against war, injustice and inequality. It raises the possibility of a real break with current foreign policy. But he will need the widest and most active possible support. Stop the War is committed to campaigning with everyone who agrees with his ideas, to bolster anti-war opinion and strengthen the mass movement. David Cameron is preparing for a vote in parliament to bomb Syria. In doing so, he will be ignoring the advice of a UN advisor just returned from Syria, who said, for peace in Syria, Britain should follow Jeremy Corbyn's example. Cameron's derisory response to the biggest refugee crisis seen since the second world war has rightly been condemned as shameful, given that this huge movement of people has to a large extent been due to war policies that the UK government has supported for the past 15 years -- in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria and beyond. The UK government was put to shame in London last Saturday when 100,000 people came together in an expression of solidarity with refugees, at which Jeremy Corbyn made his first public speech as Labour leader. The world is an ever more dangerous and unstable place. Having the first anti-war Labour leader will be very significant. But Stop the War will be needed more than ever to mobilse the widest opposition to the Tory government's endless warmongering. Please do everything possible to help -- and especially join us if you can. Get the Stop the War newsletter from: <http://stopwar.org.uk/get-involved/subscribe-to-our-email-list> http://stopwar.org.uk/get-involved/subscribe-to-our-email-list Read the Stop the War web site at: <http://stopwar.org.uk/> http://stopwar.org.uk/ Jeremy Corbyn is National Chairperson of Stop the War coalition. Follow Stop the War on Social media: Twitter: <https://twitter.com/STWuk> https://twitter.com/STWuk Facebook: <https://www.facebook.com/stopthewarcoalition> https://www.facebook.com/stopthewarcoalition Youtube: <https://www.youtube.com/StoptheWarCoalition> https://www.youtube.com/StoptheWarCoalition -- -- You are subscribed. This footer can help you. Please POST your comments to [email protected] or reply to this message. You can visit the group WEB SITE at http://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum for different delivery options, pages, files and membership. To UNSUBSCRIBE, please email [email protected] . You don't have to put anything in the "Subject:" field. You don't have to put anything in the message part. All you have to do is to send an e-mail to this address (repeat): [email protected] . --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "YCLSA Discussion Forum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
