Children join last-ditch pleas for peaceTommy Sheridan, Scottish Socialist party leader, and Tony Benn, the veteran left winger, last night urged children, students and workers to walk out in protest once the war begins.
The Glasgow MSP called on the Scottish public to engage in a campaign of civil disobedience to show their opposition to the war. He also wants the Scottish Parliament to hold an emergency debate and oppose the imminent action.
He said: "Now we know they are going to war tomorrow. They have withdrawn their resolution at the UN as they know it would be defeated.
"There is no cover now for all those Labour MSPs who hid behind the UN. I am asking for the parliament to hold an emergency debate and to oppose the war. But I also ask all schoolchildren and college and higher education students to leave their schools and colleges to demonstrate against the war.
"I ask all workers to leave their workplaces and join the anti-war protests. And I ask all citizens in Scotland to join the demonstrations that will occur all over Scotland and to be prepared to engage in peaceful civil disobedience. Our slogan must be 'When they strike, we strike'."
Mark Thomas, the satirist, will join Mr Sheridan and other protesters in Edinburgh city centre tomorrow to feign death on the firing of the traditional one o'clock gun at the castle.
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