The leaders of the world's most powerful nations will meet at the G20 summit in London on April 2. It will be Barack Obama's first visit to Britain. It is a chance for us to demand a change from Bush's war policies.

The Stop the War Coalition, Palestine Solidarity Campaign, The British Muslim Initiative, and CND have called two protests at the G20:

• April 1 (afternoon): Protest March and rally in central London
• April 2: Protest march to G20 conference

Our message will be 'Yes We Can'. Yes we can end the siege of Gaza and free Palestine, yes we can get the troops out of Iraq and Afghanistan, yes we can make jobs not bombs, yes we can abolish nukes, yes we can stop arming Israel.

The G20 will meet at a time of world slump but they are spending more and more on war.

Despite the disaster in Iraq and Afghanistan, the US and Britain are sending thousands more troops to Afghanistan. They are spending more and more in Iraq. The total cost of the war will be around 6 trillion dollars.

Most G20 leaders support Israel and refused to condemn Israel's attack on Gaza or the continuing blockade. The US, Britain and others are still selling arms to Israel. Israel receives more aid from the US than any other country in world.

The US spends $54 Bn and Britain nearly £2Bn every year on nuclear weapons.

On April 1st and 2nd we will be marching to demand a different set of priorities from the world's leaders.

The leaders of the most powerful nations will meet in London in April against the backdrop of world slump and war and rising anger at the nightmare world they have created. The idea of the G20 is to find solutions. But if the recent economic gathering in Davos is anything to go by, the worlds’ leaders are running out of ideas.

Gordon Brown will want to present himself as the man with an economic plan. But he can hardly boast of success at home and his policies were savaged this weekend by French President Nicolas Sarkozy who said“when you see the situation in the U.S. and the U.K., you don’t want to repeat it,”

There are no signs either of any serious initiatives on Palestine. US Secretary of State Hilary Clinton has gone out of her way to express support for Israel, and the main point of argument over the war is likely to be the need to escalate the action in Afghanistan.

Last weekend British Defence Secretary John Hutton attacked NATO for not being warlike enough on Afghanistan and denounced other NATO members for ‘looking to the Americans to do all the heavy lifting’.

Given the massive demonstrations over Gaza and the strength of anti war feeling, given the rage people feel as jobs go and banks are bailed out, there will be very big protests at the G20.

The G20 meeting will also be Barack Obama’s first visit to London. Many people will want to celebrate his election and urge him to push for real change in the interests of the millions ignored by Bush.

On Saturday Febuary 28 the TUC has called a Put People First demonstration with the support of many NGO’s demanding jobs, public services and an end to global inequality.

When the G20 leaders arrive there will be more protests, demanding an end of the siege of Gaza, troops out of Afghanistan and Iraq, jobs not bombs and more. The aim is to mobilise the mood for change witnessed in the huge Gaza demonstrations, the student occupations and the euphoria at Obama’s election.

The first anti war event will be a central London march on April 1st, the afternoon before the G20 and the day Barack Obama visits parliament. The second will be a protest at he G20 itself. These protests have been called by the Stop the War Coalition, the Palesrtine Solidarity Campaign, the British Muslim Initiative and CND.

People are already mobilising across the country for the protests. At the recent Stop to the War student conference, delegates from 29 colleges and universities committed to organising a massive turnout. Stop the War groups in Scotland and Manchester and Liverpool are already organising their transport.

Many groups are coming down to London and travelling on to the NATO protests in Strasbourg leading up to a mass demonstration and counter conerence on April 4th and 5th. The first week of April could be a week of protests the world leaders will never forget.