After Woolwich, says former soldier Joe Glenton, we must make our government end the UK's involvement in vicious foreign occupations that have again created bloodshed in London.

"Terrorism" seems to have no function other than legitimizing the violence of western states against Muslims while delegitimizing all violence done in return to those states.

Any rational balance sheet of the last decade would show that the 'war on terror' has been a failure in its own terms: it has not prevented terrorism but caused it to spread.

When Joe Glenton became the first British soldier to publicly refuse to go to Afghanistan as a conscientious objector, his superior officer called him 'a coward, a malingerer'.

With its record of criminality and crimes against humanity, Britain has no right to pontificate and brow beat Syria, Iran or any other nation about "international obligations".

Report and videos of the first national demonstration against UK drones, on 27 April 2013, when hundreds marched on Britain's drones base at RAF Waddington.

The government admits that on top of hundreds of missions using the UK's own drones in Afghanistan, the RAF has carried out more than 2,000 missions using ‘borrowed’ US armed drones.

Now that footage of "surgical strikes" can be watched on every home computer, it is harder to isolate ourselves from the inhuman and relentless warfare carried out in our name.

Drones, controlled far away from conflict zones, ease politicians' decisions to launch military strikes and order extra-judicial assassinations, without democratic oversight.

Perhaps it is too easy to dance on her grave. Her funeral was a propaganda stunt, fit for a dictator: an absurd show of militarism, as if a coup had taken place.

The essential library on why Thatcher's policies that destroyed communities at home and waged war abroad are not for mourning but to be remembered so they are not repeated.

The importance of Margaret Thatcher's warmongering is reflected in the Falklands theme of her funeral arrangements -- something Tony Blair does not seem to regard as "tasteless".

Let's respect those who mourn everyday because of Thatcher's policies, then wipe away the tears, and organize to make sure that the history she authored does not repeat.

Every controversial divisive deadly thing that Thatcher did is being placed in soft focus, bathed in a rose-coloured light - a first draft of history that is simply wrong.

There is nothing wrong with loathing Margaret Thatcher or any other person with political power based upon perceived bad acts, and that doesn't change simply because they die.

Tony Blair matched her zeal for neoliberal policies and privatisation with a propensity for war -- in Afghanistan, Iraq and beyond -- which Margaret Thatcher can only have envied.