Stop the War coalition Newsletter, 13/09/24

Newsletter – 13/09/24

It’s Time for Mass Pressure for Peace in Ukraine

With tensions between NATO-backed Ukraine and Russia at boiling point we released the following statement earlier today. You can read an extract below.

Please share the statement and Lindsey German’s interview on Radio 2. We’ll be announcing more activity on the war in Ukraine very soon. 

The British government is playing with fire. Throughout the conflict since Russia’s invasion in 2022 – which Stop the War condemned from the first – Britain has worked to obstruct peace and prolong the killing.

The British people are already paying the price for this policy in terms of huge increases in military spending which we can ill afford.The Ukrainian people and soldiers on both sides are paying a higher price, of course.

But the cost to the British people is only going to get steeper if this policy is pursued unchecked. We are on the road towards a wider war.

Stop the War calls for an immediate ceasefire and negotiations without pre-conditions. That is what the world demands, other than the US and its allies in this proxy war.

Keir Starmer says it is “time for change”. That applies to foreign policy as much as anywhere else.

It is time that the anti-war and labour movements piled real pressure on the Labour government to break with continuity Tory policy, cease escalations and press for a peace settlement.