Jim Radford (D-Day veteran and member of Veterans For Peace).

London, 04/08/2014. Today, an anti-war demonstration was held in Parliament Square to mark the 100th Anniversary of Britain's entry into World War One, the so called "Great War" which saw over 37 million people losing their lives. The demonstration was organised by the "No Glory in War" campaign, from their website: << […] There are anti-war events taking place around the country to...
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Jim Radford (D-Day veteran and member of Veterans For Peace).

London, 04/08/2014. Today, an anti-war demonstration was held in Parliament Square to mark the 100th Anniversary of Britain's entry into World War One, the so called "Great War" which saw over 37 million people losing their lives. The demonstration was organised by the "No Glory in War" campaign, from their website: << […] There are anti-war events taking place around the country to counter David Cameron's campaign to make the WW1 centenary an occasion for "celebration" and "glorification". In London the No Glory in War campaign will stage an event in Parliament Square at 6.30pm, just before the official commemoration, evoking the real horror of World War One, demanding that nothing like it happens again. We will be celebrating resistance to war at the time and today. Speakers and performers at the No Glory - No More War event include actors Samuel West and Kika Markham. Jeremy Corbyn MP will read Kier Hardie's anti-war speech of 1914. Writer AL Kennedy will read Carol Ann Duffy's Last Post in honour of Harry Patch, the last surviving soldier from the First World War trenches, who said until the day he died in 2009 that war was "legalised mass murder" […] >>.

For more information please click here: http://noglory.org/ & http://on.fb.me/1uiv3Vv
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