With Nato leaders meeting in Chicago to take stock of their disastrous war in Afghanistan and to plan for new wars of aggression, it is vital for the anti-war movement in Britain to maintain and expand its campaigns against the war mongers.

On Saturday 19th May StWC is holding a protest rally near the US embassy in London calling for the immediate withdrawal of all Nato forces from Afghanistan and to stop their intervention in Syria and plans for war against Iran.

Since the end of WWII the world has not enjoyed much peace and tranquility.

From Korea to Vietnam, Egypt to Palestine and Lebanon, Algeria to Cuba and Chile, Afghanistan to Iraq, and Libya to Syria, US and Nato wars and interventions have left a catastrophic trail of death and destruction, killing and maiming tens of millions of people.

The entire history of capitalism indicates that its recurrent crises often lead to war and bloody conflict.

The war industry and the technologies it relies upon prosper through war and conflict, and the entire system feeds on capturing the world's natural resources.

Nato members are going through an acute economic crisis today and some of their political leaders regard war as a necessary means of expansion and control.

Following the overthrow of two of their favourite dictators by the Tunisian and Egyptian peoples, Nato managed to militarise the protest movement in Libya, leading to a bombing campaign and the death of 30,000 Libyan people.

In Syria, they have also militarised the scene and, just like in Libya and Iraq, made common cause with known terrorist networks operating under the name of al-Qaida. Nato's proxy intervention in Syria is being fronted by the Saudi and Qatari dictatorships and logistically coordinated by a Nato member, Turkey. Arms and fighters are being smuggled through Turkey, Lebanon and Iraq.

It is essential to realise that it is not democracy and human rights that they seek in Syria but the creation of a client state that serves their interests in the region.

They want a weakened and fragmented Syrian state that cooperates with Israel against the Palestinian and Lebanese peoples, supports US plans in Iraq and, last but not least, joins Saudi and Gulf royal families in their racist propaganda war against the Iranian people, as a prelude to a war of aggression against Iran.

I will certainly join the rally outside the US embassy on Saturday 19 May because I think protest is essential in the current campaign to alert the public to Nato's threat to world peace and disastrous policies of war and intervention in the Middle East.

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