School Students Against War

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School Students Against War (SSAW, formerly School Students Against the War) is an active school students' anti-war group based in the UK. It was established in 2003 as a youth off-shoot of Stop the War Coalition, and is completely organised and maintained by School and FE College students.]

The organisation was involved in the wave of school student protests against the 2003 invasion of Iraq, which received considerable media attention.[1] Since then it has organised and supported a number of smaller protests, including a march against George W. Bush's visit to London in November 2003 and the UK G8 summit protests in July 2005. It is currently launching a campaign against military recruitment in schools.

SSAW has also been involved in anti-arms trade campaigns including Disarm Dsei, the campaign against climate change and the Stop Deporting Children campaign.

School Students Against War has received considerable media coverage on television and in the news. They have been featured on a Channel 4 documentary on political activism, various news programmes as well as the newspapers (The Guardian, The New Statesman, Times Educational supplement, Daily Mail, Independent, Socialist Worker, Morning Star).

At the moment, the organisation has groups in Edinburgh, Liverpool and London. Representatives from local groups meet at least 3 times a year to discuss, coordinate and organise their campaigns.

All those interested to get involved or finding out more about SSAW may do so via the web-site or by emailing contact@ssaw.org.uk