International delegations are preparing to travel to London and we are getting ready to receive them at the anti-war conference being held in June at the iconic Westminster Central Hall – a building in the heart of London’s political district where the United Nations was founded.
Make sure you are one of the many attending and help organise for London 20 June.
We will be joined by MPs and trade union leaders from across the continent, and are delighted to announce that Dr Mustafa Barghouthi from Palestine will be attending adn speaking at the conference, along with Medea Benjamin from USA (co-founder of Code Pink), José Nivoi, leader of the Genoa dockers, Tariq Ali and many more.
The conference has gathered support from trade unions and organisations across the UK and Europe. We are being supported by the majority of the UK’s national unions, and have more than 1,000 signatories supporting the conference including MPs, trade union leaders, cultural figures, workplace activists and peace movement organisers. These signatories span 23 countries including Germany, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Denmark, Spain, United States, France, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Norway, Palestine, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Sweden, Switzerland, the UK and Ukraine.
“No days passes without our leaders preparing for war, and raiding our wages and welfare budgets for increased arms spending”, said StW’s John Rees. “Now is the time for the international labour movement and all anti-war activists to resist military austerity and the drive to war.”
Register for the conference here. Individual and group delegate tickets available.
You can find the motion of support for the conference here and add your trade union branch or campaign group to the list of supporters.
Organisations supporting the conference include:
Bertrand Russel Peace Foundation (UK); Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (UK); Codepink (USA); Day-Mer (UK); Demilitarise Education (UK); DSA International Committee (USA); Emergency Housing for Unaccompanied Minors, Marseille (France); Future Left FV (Sweden); Friends of Palestine, University of Westminster (UK); Global Campaign on Military Spending (UK); Indian Workers Association (UK); Keep Our NHS Public (UK); Lambeth Pensioners Action Group (UK); Morning Star (UK); Movement For Black Lives (USA); Muslim Association of Britain (UK) ; Palestine Solidarity Belfast (UK); Palestine Swiss Organization for Development and Peace Opsef (Switzerland); Peace & Justice Project (UK); Peace & Justice Party FOR (Norway); Peace from below (Russia-Ukraine); Podemos (Spain); POI (France); Potere al popolo! (Italia); Progressive Lancashire Main Opposition Group on City Coucil (UK); Red Left (Denmark); Scottish Cuba Solidarity Campaign (UK) ; Scottish Venezuela Campaign (UK) ; SPOT (UK); Stop the War Coalition (UK); Strike Map (UK); Union of the Post-Soviet Left (Russia-Ukraine-Kazakhstan).
A selection of the trade unions supporting the conference and preparing to participate on the 20 June are listed below.
National UK unions
ASLEF; BFAWU; GFTU; NEU; NIPSA; PCS; SWU; RMT; TSSA; UCU.
UK trade union branches
ASLEF: West London Electric.
CWU: Essex & Central Counties.
NASUWT: Manchester Association.
NEU: Birmingham; Cambridgeshire; Camden; Croydon; Devon; Doncaster; Gateshead; Hounslow; Medway; Northumberland; North Yorkshire; South Gloucestershire; Tower Hamlets; West Sussex.
NUJ: Book Branch
RMT: London Transport Region; No. 1 Paddington.
UCU: Brighton; Capital City College; City of Bristol College; Glasgow Caledonian; Goldsmiths; London Region; Open University; Sheffield Hallam; Tower Hamlets; University of Bath; University of Essex; University of Glasgow; University of Hertfordshire; University of Newcastle; University of Strathclyde; University of Westminster; York College; Yorkshire and Humber Retired Members.
UNISON: City of Glasgow; Bradford, Calderdale & Huddersfield Health; Fife; Greater Manchester Transport; Greater Manchester Mental Health Branch; North West Region; NW 20085 Probation & Cafcass; Pennine Care Health Branch; University of Bedfordshire; University of Bristol; South Staffordshire & Shropshire Health Branch.
UNITE: Bracknell; Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire & Berkshire Community; Coventry Tom Mann Branch; East London Community; EiS Staff; Greater Manchester Community; LE/524, Youth worker, NASWUT Staff; NFP Sector; Northants Central; North East Energy & Utilities sectoral NE/204/1; East Midlands/NN44; North London Retired; NW 11500 Lancashire Community; NW51 Health Branch; NW Services Branch 70209; Nottingham Community; Retired Members LE/002; Retired Members Branch LE/RM011; Southampton Community; South East Community; South Yorkshire Community; Suffolk Road Haulage and Logistics Branch; West Midlands 5105.
Trade councils: Barnet; Birmingham; Brent; Bristol; Crewe and District; Edinburgh; Gateshead; Glasgow; Islington; Luton; Newcastle; North Norfolk; Portsmouth; Preston and South Ribble; Lancaster & Morecambe; Sheffield; Slough; Southampton; Tower Hamlets; Watford; West Suffolk; Warrington District; Waltham Forest.
International union branches
CGT Amadeus Trade Union; CGT Departmental Union of Ardèche; CGT HAD Section of the Paris Public Hospitals; CGT Local Union of Antibes; CGT Local Union of Annecy; CGT Local Union of Aubenas; CGT Local Union of Toulon; CGT Public Finances Trade Union Section of Var; CGT Trade Union of Beaujon Hospital; CGT Trade Union of Guillaume Régnier Hospital in Rennes; CGT-FO Chamber of Employees and Executives of Social Security and Family Allowance Organisations of the Île-de-France Region; CGT-FO Departmental Unions of the departments of Haute-Loire, Hauts-de-Seine, Loire-Atlantique, Maine-et-Loire; CGT-FO Federal Section of OSDD; CGT-FO Metalworkers’ Trade Union of Maine-et-Loire; CGT-FO Retirees’ Union of Maine-et-Loire; CGT-FO Trade Union of Angers University Hospital Centre; CGT-FO Trade Union of Employees in the Insurance and Assistance Professions, Hauts-de-Seine; CGT-FO Trade Union of Nantes Hospital Centre; CGT-FO Trade Union of Secondary Schools and Colleges in the departments of Ain, Aisne, Alpes-Maritimes, Ardèche, Charente, Charente-Maritime, Loire-Atlantique, Haute-Loire, Hauts-de-Seine, Puy-de-Dôme, Bas-Rhin, Rhône, Haute-Savoie, Sarthe, Seine-Maritime, Oise, Tarn, Var, Vendée, Essonne, Hauts-de-Seine, Val-d’Oise, Doubs, Gard, Indre-et-Loire; CGT-FO Trade Union of Territorial Staff of Maine-et-Loire; CGT-FO Trade Union of Vinatier Hospital in Lyon; CGT-FO Unified Trade Union of Head Teachers, Primary School Teachers, School Teachers, PsyEN and AESH in the departments of Allier, Calvados, Charente, Côte-d’Or, Eure, Gard, Haute-Garonne, Gironde, Hérault, Indre-et-Loire, Haute-Loire, Maine-et-Loire, Puy-de-Dôme, Rhône, Haute-Savoie, Seine-Maritime, Tarn, Yonne, Réunion; CGT-FO VYV3 PDL Trade Union Section; CGT-FO Trade Union of Research and Higher Education Staff in the departments of Loire and Savoie; National CGT-FO Union of Private Health Sector Trade Unions; National Federation of Education, Culture and Vocational Training CGT-FO; National Trade Union of Hospital Doctors CGT-FO; PCET CGT-FO of Maine-et-Loire; Peasant Confederation of Charente; Pirate Union of Rennes; SDAS CGT-FO of Maine-et-Loire; SUD PTT Seine-Saint-Denis; Penen – Panhellenic Union of Merchant Marine Seamen (Greece).
