Ruchika Tulshyan, News Editor
27th November 2007

LSESU’s Stop The War Coalition organised a ‘die in’ last Thursday in protest against a possible war in Iran.

The ‘die in’ saw protestors lying down on Houghton Street with red paint symbolising the loss of life any war would cause.

Daria Rouholamin, a first year student said, “I thought it was really quite effective, we got lots of people’s attention. They were walking by, picking up flyers, I think it’s a very good cause.”

Aled Dilwyn Fisher, the LSESU Environment and Ethics Officer, was another participant in a day of “national action against the war”. He said that the ‘die in’ was organised to “highlight the ongoing death and destruction of the occupations in Iraq and Afghanistan” as well as “to protest against the drum beating that Bush, Brown and others are doing to take us to war in Iran”.

Last Thursday was a day of action for all secondary and tertiary students affiliated with the Stop the War coalition. In Manchester, students marched through the city centre, holding banners and placards.

Events were also organised last Saturday. Activists in Hackney held a ‘die in’ similar to that organised at LSE and Portsmouth Stop the War group held a rally in the town centre.

The Stop the War Coalition believe that rather than the promised surgical strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities, an attack on Iran would kill thousands of people and destabilise the country, creating a situation similar to that in Iraq.

Earlier this month, US Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice, branded Iran’s Revolutionary Guards a “terrorist organisation” and imposed the strongest sanctions since the 1979 Iranian revolution, spurring rumours of a possible war in the near future.

The Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps is an army of 125,000 and an indispensable part of the Iranian military.

The Stop the War Coalition will hold its World Against War Conference on Saturday 1 December in central London.