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THE Stop the War Coalition elected Shelly D Asquith as its new chair at its first steering committee meeting since the 2021 AGM on Tuesday night.
Ms Asquith “has been a dedicated anti-war campaigner as part of Stop the War for many years and we’re very excited to have her at the forefront of our work,” the peace campaign said in a statement. She succeeds Murad Qureshi, who stepped down after five years.
The meeting discussed campaigning priorities including the dispatch of a new aircraft carrier strike group to the South China Seas in what national officer Chris Nineham called “a post-colonial fantasy, but a dangerous fantasy, because the Tories believe it and are pumping large amounts of money and munitions into it.”
The armed flotilla, part of Britain’s bid to line up behind US President Joe Biden’s increasingly confrontational stance on China, “can only make the world a tenser, more dangerous place,” Mr Nineham said.