IN THIS NEWSLETTER:

1 TURN UP THE HEAT ON NEXT PRIME MINISTER

2. NEW STOP THE WAR LEAFLETS

3 MILITARY FAMILIES CAMPAIGN DAY � Saturday 12 May

4 TOM MORELLO OF RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE GIG

5. ENOUGH DEMONSTRATION: 9 JUNE

6. G8 PROTEST GERMANY, 2/3 JUNE

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1. TURN UP THE HEAT ON NEXT PRIME MINISTER: USE THE OPEN LETTER
It's time to ratchet up the pressure on Blair's replacement and get the open letter calling for troops out and a change of policy signed by Labour MP's,councillors, party officials and others.(http://tinyurl.com/ywtmg8)

We can also use the open letter as a petition on stalls, at trade union meetings and rallies to get the widest possible campaign in motion. We will then have a high profile hand-in of the letter to Blair's successor when he takes office in 7 or 8 weeks time.

Watch out for George Brown�s �hustings� meetings across the country and make sure that the anti-war movement is there to remind him that we will not tolerate a Blair Mark II.

The situation in Iraq and Afghanistan is getting more and more desperate Everyone from Ex-CIA chiefs to recently returned British squaddies say that the US �Coalition� war in Iraq is lost. Meanwhile death and destruction continue to stalk the country. In the US the Democrats have been forced to call for troops out. We must bring our own politicians to heel.
http://tinyurl.com/2228zc
http://tinyurl.com/yumo9m
http://tinyurl.com/ynmu9n
http://tinyurl.com/27dmwx

2. NEW STOP THE WAR LEAFLETS
Make sure you have ordered the new pamphlet on Foreign Policy change. You can also download it from http://tinyurl.com/2bxh86.

Order the new Stop the War leaflet on Afghanistan from us or download
http://tinyurl.com/yvrm8j

3 MILITARY FAMILIES CAMPAIGN DAY � Saturday 12 May � Help Needed.
Members of Military Families are organising public stalls in various towns and cities across the country on Saturday May 12th. As casualties reach the highest levels since the invasion in Iraq anger against the war is mounting in the military. Two serving soldiers have called for troops out in the last few days (www.mfaw.org.uk) and nearly 1,000 members of military families have now joined the campaign.

The campaign has asked the Stop the War Coalition to support this day of action. Please get in touch with any military families in your area and assist them in organising Military Families Against the War stalls. Please forward any contact details of soldiers or families to
contact@mfaw.org.uk.

4. TOM MORELLO GIG
http://tinyurl.com/ynm4ec
RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE�S TOM MORELLO TO PLAY �BRING THE TROOPS HOME� UK CONCERT Just as Rage are reforming Tom Morello plays in the UK for the first time in two years

�I am enormously proud to be an American. I would say that the things our corporate-controlled government has done at best are shameful, and at worst, genocidal � People often get tricked into going overseas and fighting Uncle Sam's Wall Street wars, but these are people who knew what they were fighting for here at home. I think that that's so much more courageous and brave."

Rage Against the Machine�s guitarist and political and social activist, Tom Morello, performs for the Bring The Troops Home concert at London�s SCALA (Kings Cross) on Monday 4 June 2007.

He will be supported by: Ed Harcourt, (www.edharcourt.com), Frank Turner (www.frank-turner.com) and with comedian, Mark Steel as MC. Tom�s new album as The Nightwatchman, �One Man�s Revolution� is an urgent portrait of a world in turmoil. The Grammy Award-winning guitarist of Rage Against the Machine and Audioslave, compares war zones in the US and Iraq.
(http://www.nightwatchmanmusic.com/)

Rage Against The Machine played its first show in seven years on 29 April to close the 2007 Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival in California.

Tickets: �15
www.scala-london.co.uk
Scala Box office (10 am � 6 pm) Mon-Fri: T: 020 7833 2022
www.ticketweb.co.uk
T: 08700 600 100
Further information from:
David Wilson
Stop the War Coalition Press / Events
david@stopwar.org.uk
T: 07951 579 064

5. ENOUGH NATIONAL DEMONSTRATION: Saturday 9 June
Assemble Lincoln�s Inn Fields at 1.30pm for the march to Trafalgar Square. End the Israeli occupation -Justice for Palestine!
More info at: www.enoughoccupation.org

6. G8 PROTETS GERMANY, 2/3 JUNE
Bush and the G8 in Europe, Rostock, Germany 2 / 3 June

Following the massive protests in Edinburgh two years ago the international anti-war movement is calling on activists to join this protest. The German organising committee is expecting a very big united demonstration in the Baltic port of Rostock on Saturday 2 June, against war, privatisation and climate chaos.

Anti-war activists are organising a Troops Out rally on the afternoon of Sunday 3 June.

There are further protests taking place throughout the week. Stop the War is organising a delegation. Please e-mail us if you want to come.
(office@stopwar.org.uk)

Transport details and further information on the G8 will be on the Globalise Resistance website in a few days: www.resist.org.uk

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IN THIS NEWSLETTER:

1) LETTER TO MPs / LABOUR PARTY OFFICIALS

2) WHAT TO DO IF THEY ATTACK IRAN

3) PUBLIC MEETINGS ON IRAN

4) MEMBERSHIP & AFFILIATION

5) MAY DAY

6) DATES FOR YOUR DIARY

7) MERCHANDISE
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1) OPEN LETTER TO NEW PRIME MINISTER CAMPAIGN:
Change policy, not just leader

Very shortly Labour will elect a new leader. We are launching a campaign to try to force the new Prime Minister to break with Bush's foreign policy. We have drawn up an open letter to the new Prime Minister calling for all troops to be pulled out of Iraq by October 2007, for there to be no attack on Iran and for the government to break with Washington's foreign policy. Please contact your local STWC group and contact your local Labour MP, councillors and constituency officers to get as many of them as possible to sign the letter.

Download letter from Andrew Murray and Lindsey German encouraging you to distribute letter to MP�s, councillors and constituency officials. http://tinyurl.com/2zvqhm

Download letter to MP�s, councillors and constituency officials for their signatures
http://tinyurl.com/2vb9s3

Download the sign-up sheet with space for signatures of Labour MP's, councillors and constituency officers
http://tinyurl.com/2ohkg5

There are also going to be �hustings� meetings involving leadership candidates in some cities and towns across the UK. We will let you know where these will be and when as soon as the information reaches this office.
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2) WHAT TO DO IF THEY ATTACK IRAN
(full details here: http://www.stopwar.org.uk/)

There are many rumours of an imminent attack on Iran. If an attack takes place, Stop the War Coalition, in conjunction with CND, will call an emergency protest outside Downing Street at 6pm on the day of the attack. We are asking all our supporters to join this protest. (If the attack takes place at night, the protest will take place at 6pm on the following day, or if on a weekend, at 12 noon on the appropriate day). If you need information and the Stop the War office is closed (evenings, weekends) call 07951 579 064 for information. If unable to speak directly to us leave a message and we will return your call or send you a text message if using a mobile.

Read John Pilger at:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,2056027,00.html
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3)PUBLIC MEETINGS ON IRAN

Tues 24 April: South Tyneside StWC
Trinity House Social Centre, 134 Laygate lane, Laygate,
South Shields. (Nearest Metro Chichester)
7.30pm - 8.30pm

Thurs 26 April: Bristol StWC
Opposite Caf� Bar, Park Street Avenue, BRISTOL, BS1 5JU
7.30pm

Mon 30 April: Debyshire STW
Friends Meeting Hall, St Helens Street, Derby DE1
7pm - 9pm

Weds 9 May: Canterbury Kent
Westgate Hall, Canterbury Kent
7.30pm

Weds 9 May: London, Goldsmith�s College
Ian Gulland lecture theatre, Whitehead Building, Lewisham Way, London SE14 7.30 pm
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4) MEMBERSHIP AND AFFILIATION

A Big Thank You to all those who have returned their renewal membership forms with payments.

We are launching a new drive for national membership and a new �Join-Us� leaflet will be available shortly. If you are not a national member of the STWC please join. If you are a member please recruit some people from your group. You can order membership forms from us by email, post or phone.

Please encourage affiliation from your local union branch and/or other community, political or religious organisation(s) you are involved with.

Download form or affiliate online: http://tinyurl.com/pprp4

Of course, you are welcome to make a donation to the STWC.

�We depend entirely on your donations to fund all our anti-war activities: demonstrations, vigils, public meetings, people's assemblies, publications and much else. However large or small a donation you can make will be much appreciated and is very necessary.� Yours in peace, Tony Benn
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5) MAY DAY � TUESDAY 1 MAY 2007

There will be May Day demonstrations and events across the country and the PCS union has called a one-day strike on 1 May in their campaign on jobs, pay and conditions. This takes place just two days before the local elections, so make sure that you have our up-to-date �Join Us� flyers, the new STW Afghanistan leaflets and know about our campaign to pressure a change in foreign policy on the new prime minister. Your local group will have this information and/or contact the national office. Stop the War Groups are encouraged to run stalls at local rallies / meetings.

London May Day Rally (1 May 2007)
Friends Meeting House, Euston Road,
6.30 pm
with: Tony Benn, George Galloway MP, Lindsey German, Mark Serwotka (PCS), Paul Mackney (UCU), John McDonnell MP, John Rees (Respect), Linda Smith (FBU)

www.fightingunions.org.uk
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6) DATES FOR YOUR DIARY

Bush and the G8 in Europe, Rostock, Germany 2 / 3 June

Following the massive protests in Edinburgh two years ago the international anti-war movement is calling on activists to join this protest. The German organising committee is expecting a very big united demonstration in the Baltic port of Rostock on Saturday 2 June, against war, privatisation and climate chaos.

Anti-war activists are organising a Troops Out rally on the afternoon of Sunday 3 June.

There are further protests taking place throughout the week. Stop the War is organising a delegation. Please e-mail us if you want to come.
(office@stopwar.org.uk)

Transport details and further information on the G8 will be on the Globalise Resistance website in a few days: www.resist.org.uk

Afghanistan Day School - date tbc

STWC National Conference, London � 27 October 2007

International Peace Conference, London 1 December 2007
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7) MERCHANDISE.

We have a wider range of merchandise than ever: badges, T-shirts, hoodies, baseball caps, �Make Tea Not War� posters and others, keyrings, mugs etc See our Merchandise webpage for pricing details:

http://tinyurl.com/yatzoe
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27 Britannia Street, London WC1X 9JP
020 7278 6694
office@stopwar.org.uk

Press Enquiries
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07951 579064

www.stopwar.org.uk
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