London International Anti-War Conference
Saturday 20 June
Pre-conference Assembly 10-11:30am; Conference 1pm (doors open 11:30)
Main Conference: 12:00 noon
Central Hall Westminster, London, SW1H 9NH

A new era of militarisation is being imposed on working people across the world. Governments are driving through historic increases in military spending while cutting public services, suppressing wages, and deepening austerity. The message from ruling classes is unmistakable: there is always money for war, but never for welfare.

This is not a contradiction—it is how the system is structured. Capitalist states are reorganising economies around permanent war readiness, arms expansion, and escalating geopolitical confrontation. The cost is being borne by working-class communities everywhere, forced to pay for wars they did not choose while their own living standards are driven down, while governments stoke racism and fascism on our streets to divide and weaken working people.

The International Anti-War Conference, organised by the Stop the War Coalition, will bring together trade unionists, anti-war campaigners, socialists and internationalists to build resistance to war, racism and militarism. It is a space to organise against a system that wages destruction abroad while imposing austerity at home.

Across the world, communities are being devastated by war, genocide, occupation, displacement and state violence. These are not isolated tragedies, but the direct outcome of imperialist policy and an arms-driven global order. Entire societies are reduced to rubble while arms corporations and political elites continue to profit from mass killing and human suffering. War is not a breakdown of the system—it is one of its central functions.

Working-class people have no stake in this agenda. No worker benefits from bombs dropped abroad while hospitals collapse at home, or from endless military escalation while wages stagnate and housing becomes unaffordable. Every pound spent on militarism is extracted from public services, from education, from healthcare, and from the basic conditions required for a dignified life.

This conference is an opportunity to organise against that logic—to coordinate resistance, deepen international solidarity, and rebuild an anti-war movement capable of confronting the political and economic forces driving war forward.

MENA Solidarity calls on all comrades, trade unionists, students and activists to attend and help transform anger into organised power.

For further information and tickets, visit the Stop the War Coalition website:
https://www.stopwar.org.uk/events/european-peace-conference/