No to “Stoking up tension, macho posturing & trying to ‘out do’ the Tories on hawkish foreign policy” – Young Labour

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“Labour has too often been on the wrong side of international issues. Young Labour calls on the leadership to stop backing NATO aggression, call wholeheartedly for peace, commit to constructive engagement with activists & deliver international policy around peace and cooperation.”

By Young Labour

“While we accept difference in policy positions to the current leadership of our party, we are especially concerned in this instance to see Keir Starmer pushing not only for further engagement with NATO, but celebrating it while attacking Stop The War and other pro-peace activists.

NATOs acts of aggression both historical and present are a threat to all of our safety. Young Labours delegates from across our membership and affiliates voted that we should withdraw from NATO and pursue an international policy based on peace, adopting this as official policy.

Stoking up tension, macho posturing & trying to ‘out do’ the Tories on hawkish foreign policy will only lead to further devastation, loss of life and displacement of people across the world. We offer solidarity with those organising against this, including members of Stop the War.

Labour has too often been on the wrong side of international issues. Young Labour calls on the leadership to stop backing NATO aggression, call wholeheartedly for peace, commit to constructive engagement with activists and deliver international policy around peace and cooperation.”

  • Originally published by Young Labour on twitter here.
Featured Image: September 5-6, 2015, Helsinki, international conference, organised by “No war-No Nato” committee. Credit: Peoples Dispatch, under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 (CC BY-SA) license.

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