Picket at Chetwynd Barracks, Nottingham
Published:
August 15, 2010 12:02
by Anti Imperialist Action |
Neighbourhoods: chilwell
Picket against Afghanistan war held at Chetwynd Barracks on Saturday, 14th.August
BAD WAR, DON'T FIGHT!: PICKET AT CHETWYND ARMY BARRACKS NOTTINGHAM
Chetwynd Barracks at Nottingham is where many British armed forces personnel are mobilised before being sent to fight In Afghanistan. A small picket was held on 14th. August under the slogan 'Bad War, Don't Fight!'. Protestors urged soldiers to follow the example of Lance Corporal Joe Glenton and others by refusing to fight in Afghanistan. Leaflets (see text below) were distributed to soldiers entering and leaving the camp. Megaphone appeals were made for the troops to take the initiative in ending this unjust, murderous war. It was pointed out that although the great majority of people in Britain are against this futile war, the politicians and generals persist in this folly, happy to sacrifice their own soldiers as dead heroes.
The Government and media propaganda campaign in recent years portraying Britsh forces as "heroes" has intimidated many people from protesting to the troops and when they are paraded through town centres.. It is essential to make such demonstrations and today's event shows that this is possible. Many soldiers have doubts about their part in this war and some would welcome support for their dissent. The Stop the War Coalition has deliberately avoided taking such actions.
Those of us demonstrating today call for further pickets and demonstrations at military bases and parades across the country.
BAD WAR,
DON’T FIGHT!
American, British and other NATO forces attacked and invaded Afghanistan in 2001. Since then this war of terror against the Afghani people has dragged on and is intensifying and spreading. Now NATO are sending in many more thousands of troops because they have failed to crush the resistance of the Afghani people to foreign invasion.
FACT: No Afghanis were involved in the 9/11 attack on the Twin Towers in New York.
FACT: It was America and Britain which attacked Afghanistan, the Afghanis did not attack Britain or America.
FACT: NATO has forced on the Afghani people a puppet government controlled by corrupt, drug-running warlords. The same bunch of murderous thugs had previously been thrown out by the Afghani people.
FACT: Most of the heroin on British streets, especially in Nottingham, comes from these criminal warlords who have made billions from the misery of drug addiction here.
FACT: The war in Afghanistan is costing billions each year while massive cuts are being made in public services in Britain.
FACT: The British Government says that Afghanis are plotting to carry out terrorist attacks in Britain. Yet the few acts of terrorism in Britain have not been committed by Afghanis.
FACT: British forces in Afghanistan are among the best equipped soldiers in the world, able to call in devastating attacks by RAF Tornados and Harrier fighter-bombers on Afghani villages.
FACT: For each dead British soldier the British Army claims it has killed at least a hundred Afghanis.
STOP THIS MURDEROUS WAR
Ever since 1838, on and off, the British Army has been attacking Afghanistan. The Afghanis always have fought back and defeated foreign invaders. In the 1980’s they repulsed a massive invasion from the Soviet Union. Sending more troops will simply make them fight harder to defend their homeland.
British soldiers know that the politicians and generals have led them into disaster. A few military personnel have taken a heroic stand and refused to serve in Afghanistan. Lance Corporal Joe Glenton, jailed for refusing to fight in Afghanistan, said, “The real enemy is not the man in front who is facing your rifle, but the man directly behind and above you telling you to pull the trigger.” Others should follow his example by not fighting this oppressive war.
HANDS OFF AFGHANISTAN!
TROOPS OUT NOW!
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We Need To Take Over the Lingo.
The language has been taken by doctorships in the empire since the conquest, and not fully allowed the dialect of the 'workers commonwealth'. We need to return that lingo, as your article indicates. For one thing you report that the Soviet Union attacked Afghanistan. That is not true.
Soviet Social Imperialism attacked Afghanistan. The Soviet Union has not attacked any country and never could for its foreign policy is not other than 'Workers of the world, Unite'. While it was not a revisionist state, it never attacked any other state. It practiced peaceful co-existence with countries, even with states of differing social systems.
Socialism forbids aggressive war as the supreme international crime on the planet earth, and this is carried through by the Nuremburg Trials (1945)in international law, Chaired by the U.S. Judge Jackson, who wrote into history and herstory that aggressive war is the supreme international crime on the planet earth as it actuates a political chain reaction that causes all crime high, low, big, and small. He further says that it is the supreme international crime whether Germany does it or the U.S.A. does it. Now that is signed on to by the British and American Imperialists as the supreme law of the land nationally and internationally and throughout the majority of the world.
However the all sided subversion of the anti-fascist side writtten in covenants has been carried out since 1945 by the Imperialist camp against the workers state, ie the Soviet Union or Workers Commonwealth.
It is our comming generations responsiblity to make aggressive war just a long distant memory and thus says the United Nations Charter which has been taken over by the Imperialist Camp through the control of the security council with the veto. That is how the majority democracy through the general assembly was subverted and we the people lost our democracy as peaceful majority throughout the world. We need a majority veto over the Imperialist controlled security council. That would stop the losing of majority control of world peaceful democracy amd restore victory to the anti-fascist side again. Whose language, Our language!! Whose streets, Our streets! Whose country, our country!!