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Anti-war organisation is needed more than ever
To suggest we no longer need pro-peace organisations like the Stop the War Coalition while we are once again in the midst of war fever in the West is nonsense, explains COLL McCAIL
Stop the War

ON the day that Andrew Fisher called for the Stop the War Coalition to disband, Lord George Robertson was named Dundee University chancellor. As Nato’s 10th secretary-general, Robertson oversaw the organisation’s imperialist intervention in Afghanistan and supported Bush’s illegal invasion of Iraq.

Robertson’s ascendancy to “nominal head” of Dundee University should remind us of the urgent need to combat militarism’s creeping influence on our campuses and throughout public life. To dissolve a mass anti-war organisation, with thousands of fee-paying members, makes this task infinitely harder.

Despite Fisher’s claim that the war on terror as we know it is over, the military-industrial complex’s influence endures. The Scotsman revealed recently that more than 900 US military planes refuelled at Scotland’s government-owned Prestwick airport in 2022.

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