Anti-War Coalition

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The Anti-war Coalition (AWC) is a South African Anti-war Coalition. It organised protests against the 2003 Iraq war.

The AWC was formed shortly after the formation of the Stop the War Campaign by the governing African National Congress (ANC), Communist Party of South Africa, Congress of South African Trade Unions, and South Africa Council of Churches as a more radical alternative. It was formed by a coalition of independent community and solidarity groups was endorsed by around 300 organisations.

An attempt was made to bring the two groups together at a meeting on February 2003 but it failed. ANC policy director Michael Sachs told the meeting that the leaders of the ANC were uncomfortable with the more vigorously anti-imperialist language of the AWC. The rift between the two groups grew bigger when Sachs falsely claimed that the Stop the War Campaign, rather than the AWC, had organized the February 15th protests. Because of this, the AWC refused to have ANC speakers on the stage of its Johannesburg anti-war rally.^{[{{fullurl:}}#endnote_bond]}

References

^ Bush in South Africa, Patrick Bond, Counterpunch, July 23, 2003