"...What has happened in Iraq was the armed robbery of Iraq. The Americans went in and stole the oil and are now trying to sell of all the other Iraqi companies and property to the multinationals corporations!

...And I tell you more frightened than anyone else its President Bush because there is going to be a regime change in America next year when the Americans realise what he has done!

...A lot of journalists come up and say whats the point [of coming to the rally]. Well I'll tell you what the point is. First time I came here was nearly 50 years ago, standing on this platform when Sir Antony Eden launched a war against Egypt - the Suez War - and a few months later Eden was out on his ear and we had a new Prime Minister. I was here in 1964, and I remember it very well, it was in support of a very well known terrorist and the next time I met him he had a Nobel Peace Prize and was President of South Africa, that was with the anti-apartheid movement! Trafalgar Square is the real parliament of this country!"

"...workers of the world unite, workers of the world unite against injustice, against fascism, against lies, against oppression, against globalisation... workers of the world unite against illegal war and against illegal occupation. Solidarity!"

The Stop the War Coalition has created its own deck of cards showing the war mongers and liars serving the US empire.

The shameful position of the Ace of Spades is held by the Big Liar Tony Blair as seen on this poster. Other cards from the pack can be seen on the left, apparently Claire Short appears as the joker in the pack.

Geoff Hoon, the british defence secretary, is the Ace of Clubs. His notoriety for lying to the British people before, during and after the war is truly legendary. In fact his name has become a synonym for the word liar. The caption reads "You ain't nothing but a Hoon dog lying all the time"

 

"...The enormous damage the war in Iraq has caused, its infrastructure and institutions, is a result of this unjust war. The consequences of a war that was not sanctioned by the international community. The architects of the war must therefore pay for the reconstruction of Iraq. They must not be allowed to put the cost on the people of Iraq! ..."

"Its been an amazing week. Lies that we all knew were lies are now unravelling. Hans Blix has finally said that Iraq destroyed almost all its weapons 10 years ago. The CIA backed Iraq survey group with one thousand four hundred inspectors with microscopes in six months haven't found a button! Of course we knew they wouldn't find anything but the people who could have told them were no less than Colin Powell and Condaliza Rice. They were quoted in John Pilger's fine film on Monday night - before 9/11 Colin Powell saying that Saddam Hussein has not developed weapons of mass destruction and again in May 2001 'Saddam has not been able to develop weapons of mass destruction in the last 10 years'. This was known two years ago, now is Blair saying he didn't know these things? And if he did know them why is he lying to us now?

It is of course all lies, because the real reason emerged again this week with the news that the US stooges in the Iraqi provisional authority are to sell off 192 publicly owned companies in Iraq. Unlimited profits will leave that country at small corporate tax and the door is open. They smashed the shop front and now they are reaching in and grabbing the jewels!

McShit - the truth about McDonalds
"We cannot oppose the war unless we oppose
corporate power at the same time - its one and
the same"

I think we cannot oppose the war unless we oppose corporate power at the same time - its one and the same issue! Consider the logic of corporate power - they need cheap labour, they need cheap resources, they need to reorder the economy in the interests of their own big companies, and they need cheap oil. And thats why the war was fought and we knew it all along and now the proof comes out.

Consider the world the multinationals are making. Its a world of great inequality, it is the rape of the earths resources, it is the destruction of local communities, and most of all it is permanent war against everyone who raises their voice against the US forces. If its not the 'evil empire' it'll be the 'axis of evil' or even the 'war on terrorism' the words are interchangeable but we are faced with permanent war.

Never in modern times has there been such a concentration of power and wealth. Never has there been a US president more naked in pursuing class interests, and never has there been a UK prime minister so supine and forning in his favour..."

"We live in today's world where we hear the Israeli government publicly announce its decision to assassinate the democratically elected Palestinian leader, and when the whole international community condemns the Israeli act and proposes a UN security council resolution asking Israel not to do so the United States of America veto's it!

In Palestine there is always a new road map ... On the first day that agreement was signed an Israeli labour government starting building settlements ... it is evident to us all by now that there is an Israeli strategy and this strategy is very very simple - the prevention of the establishment of a Palestinian state. What the Israelis want is a state that they can control from within by building settlements, bi-passage roads, walls, and by making sure they control every single town and city.

By building an apartheid wall, and dear friends I repeat this is an apartheid wall, by building an apartheid wall inside the occupied territories snaking through the Palestinian land, carving towns and villages in to cantons and bantustans, converting the entire West Bank in to a massive concentration camp and after having built the same in Gaza Strip just days after signing the Oslo Accords Israel thinks and believes that the Palestinian aspiration to independence can be crushed. Nothing can be further from the truth, it is the other way round, dear friends it is Israel that has come to the conclusion that its massive arsenal of weapons of mass destruction will not be able to defeat the Palestinians.

Dear friends I say this with a great deal of confidence, time is on our side, we belong to the land, and it belongs to us, and we are there not only to stay but to rebuild Palestine and place it back to the centre of human civilisation."

"I would like to thank everyone who has come here today because you are here today representing the conscience of millions of people in this country and you are here representing the majority. The latest opinion polls show that 52% of the people now think this war is not justified and was never justified.

Alaister Cambell told us back in April that we should apologise for opposing the war, I think in view of subsequent events perhaps Alaister Cambell should apologise to the rest of us... and if he should apologise where does that leave the cheap liar and war criminal Tony Blair?

What a lie it was when George Bush stood on the aircraft carrier against the banner which said "mission accomplished" and said the war is over. Since then a thousand Iraqis a week die and more American soldiers have died than during the war itself...

And when we are told its about democracy, look at what they are doing. They are privatising the country ... and they are denying democracy. They are saying to the Iraqi people, "you are too stupid to run your own country". Well we have a message for Tony Blair and George Bush, the Iraqi people want to run their own country, they have every right to run their own country and this occupation is an illegal colonial occupation which must end now..."

"Many of the people who are opposed to the occupation of Iraq by US and British forces have called for those forces to be replaced by United Nations forces. I think this will be a very bad mistake. And I think it will be a very bad mistake for three reasons.

The first, is that it makes the UN the dustbin in to which the US dumps it failed colonial adventures. If the UN shows that its prepared to mop up after the United States then it enhances its [US] incentive, to date George Bush's perpetual war to one nation after another. The paradoxical effect to be that the hated UN becomes the escape valve for George Bush, the way in which he can get out of Iraq in order to win the next election.

The second reason why its a disastrous idea is that tough as the current arrangement may be for the american soldiers and indeed for the Iraqi people, the best place for the US armed forces at the moment is pinned down in Iraq because while they are stuck there they can't go on and invade anywhere else! The pentagon has made it perfectly clear that it's not prepared to fight more than one war at a time.

And the principle reason why it has approached Iran and North Korea not with bombs but with diplomacy is that it cant spare the troops and it cant spare the resources because it is stuck in Iraq. Again if the UN gives Bush a way out he will use that way out to go and attack another nation.

There is a third reason why it would be a disaster. Its that the United Nations at the moment has no more legitimacy than the united states.

And the force either in occupation or out of occupation, it is governed by five nations - the principle victors of the second world war. And the idea that this wholly undemocratic body can oversee someone else's transition to democracy is laughable. The only country at the moment whose veto carries weight within the United Nations is the United States. A UN decision can only be made if George Bush wants it to be made, and George Bush will only want it to be made if its in his interest.

The only thing that the UN occupation would do would be to grant retrospective legitimacy to an illegal US occupation. It simply replaces occupation heavy with occupation light.

So what is the answer? The answer is so blindingly obvious that it seems staggering that we even need to ask the question! The answer is that the transition to democracy and the transition to the power being placed in the hands of the Iraqi people starts right away! it starts with a constitutional convention established by and run by the Iraqis - not the occupying powers. It ensures that constitutional convention determines what the Iraqis want - not what Blair wants, not what Bush wants. It determines that the major decisions are made not before democracy comes to Iraq but once democracy comes to Iraq. In short the essential process of national negotiation and reconciliation within Iraq, which is essential if democracy is to have any meaning there, can take place.

So of course Bush isn't going to permit either route to happen. He will allow himself to be bogged down in Iraq because he can't bear to loose face in getting out. And the result is likely to be that Iraq will swallow George Bush and his imperial plan just as Afghanistan swallowed the Soviet empire!

And we as the opponents should seize trying to help George Bush from his own folly - let him go down! Let his own imperial ambitions swallow his imperial ambitions!"

"Blair is said to want to leave a legacy as Prime Minister - 50.000 dead, 10s of 1000s of people maimed and injured, a bill of over 100 billion dollars - some legacy for Prime Minister.

Yet, a fraction of that money could have eliminated world malaria, halted the scourge of Aids in Southern Africa and tackled the outrage of 40,000 British pensioners dying every winter from cold. That would have been a legacy to have been proud of.

Tears poured down my face last week as I listened to Azmet Begg at our party conference. Moazzam, Azmet's son kidnaped by the US, taken to Guantanamo bay, held without trial or basic human rights - a disgrace! Muslims too deserve human rights!

... But the Blair... initiative is not just selling us out, it is actually going far beyond Iraq and Guantanamo. Blair has greed that our citizens can be extradited to the US without any due process - some special relationship! Blair has allowed US corporations to buy UK media but prevents us from buying theirs - some special relationship!"

"...We want a reformed United Nations, one true to its aim of 'saving future generations from the scourge of war'. Just look at the United Nations now - between 1996 and 2000 the permanent members of the security council were together responsible for 81% of all arms exports. War is big business for them!..."