Drop the debt, not bombs, G8 leaders urged

JUST like the Make Poverty History (MPH) protest in Dublin last Thursday, the demonstration in Edinburgh — the largest in Scotland’s history — was a carnival of unity of purpose and diversity of perspectives.

We marched to demand debt cancellation (18 countries are not enough), more and better aid and trade justice, not free trade.

We in the Irish Anti-War Movement demanded that G8 leaders drop the debt instead of bombs on Iraq, Afghanistan and Chechnya.