The Guardian has published the following letter signed by six lead signatories (the Guardian’s limit) and up to 50 others.
The US/Israeli war on Iran is a catastrophic escalation in an already devastated region, and Britain must not be involved. It is causing appalling death and destruction in Iran and risks plunging the area into wider war. Already it is causing economic convulsions around the world.
Its aims seem to change daily, but it is clearly an illegal and unprovoked war, one which started in the midst of negotiations. Its organisers have learnt nothing from the carnage and chaos caused by previous wars on Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya.
Unsurprisingly, the war is deeply unpopular here and around the world.
We call on our government to end all participation, to stop allowing the US to use British bases to pursue it and to join others in calling for an immediate end to the attacks.
Full list of signatures:
Jeremy Corbyn MP
Andrea Egan general secretary Unison
Maryam Eslamdoust general secretary TSSA
Lindsey German convener Stop the War Coalition
Zarah Sultana MP
Jon Trickett MP
And:
Jen Brister comedian
Brian Eno musician and artist
Michael Rosen author
Juliet Stevenson actor
Tariq Ali writer and broadcaster
Ghassan Abu-Sittah British/Palestinian doctor
Stephen Kapos Holocaust survivor
Francesca Martinez comedian and activist
Louise Regan chair Palestine Solidarity Campaign
Sophie Bolt general secretary CND
Raghad Altikriti president Muslim Association of Britain
Adnan Hmidan chairman Palestinian Forum in Britain
Andrew Feinstein author and activist
Shockat Adam MP
Richard Burgon MP
Neil Duncan Jordan MP
Adnan Hussain MP
Imran Hussain MP
Ayoub Khan MP
Brian Leishman MP
John McDonnell MP
Iqbal Mohamed MP
Kate Osborne MP
Lord John Hendy KC
Michael Mansfield KC
Executive Committee Haldane Society of Labour Lawyers
Ruth Dukes Professor of Labour Law, University of Glasgow
Geoffrey Shears trade union lawyer
Tonia Novitz Professor of Labour Law at the University of Bristol Centre for Law at Work
Jess Barnard chair London & Eastern Unite
Steve Gillan general secretary POA
Jo Grady general secretary UCU
Fran Heathcote general secretary PCS
Daniel Kebede general secretary NEU
Gawain Little general secretary GFTU
Brian McDaid general secretary Aegis
Sarah Woolley general secretary BFAWU
Julia Georgiou general secretary NHBCSA
Donna Wiggett general secretary AEP
Daniel Garnham general secretary SIF
Executive Committee PCU
Source: Guardian