The campaign group was the most prominent organisation in Britain campaigning against the war in Iraq that has cost thousands of lives; and many see as having added to global insecurity...

Stop The War was responsible for organising one of Britain’s biggest ever public demonstrations in 2003, against the imminent invasion of Iraq...

It was estimated that up to two million people attended the demo, and the organisation continues its work today with its members campaigning for peace and the prevention of further military interventions.

The organisation also continues to campaign for transparency about the decisions taken to take Britain into the Iraq war and has responded to the decision to keep pre-Iraq intervention war talks by the British cabinet secret...

Matt Carr in an editorial piece writes of: "a deliberate policy of misinformation by Tony Blair and his inner circle that has done far more damage to the 'maintenance of effective cabinet government' than would be caused by opening up those minutes to public scrutiny..."

This follows the recent decision of the UK government to veto an order by the freedom of information watchdog to release the minutes of cabinet meetings held immediately before the invasion of Iraq in March 2003, and is the latest example of why the invasion of Iraq and the accountability of the politicians involved, will not go away as an issue for campaigners...

Stop The War highlights the decision in July 2012 to conceal the truth of what went on as the latest in the country’s leadership’s shameful relationship with the invasion of Iraq...

The decision has been announced by the Attorney General, Dominic Grieve QC MP, who has issued a certificate under the Freedom of Information Act, vetoing the disclosure ordered by the independent Information Commissioner of extracts of Cabinet meeting minutes from 2003 at which military action against Iraq was discussed...

The disclosure of these extracts of the minutes was previously vetoed in 2009 by the then Justice Secretary, Jack Straw.

The Attorney General is the only minister to have access to papers of the previous administration, and so the decision on whether to exercise the veto fell to him. He revealed that he made the decision following consultation with Cabinet colleagues, as well as the Information Commissioner, the Leader of the Opposition and relevant former ministers...

The certificate and the Attorney General's Statement of Reasons for this decision includes: "safeguard the public interest” and because it is an “exceptional case” and that disclosure would be: “detrimental to the effective operation of Cabinet government..."

Stop The War and its supporters want secrecy to be lifted and the real reasons for the war to be revealed to the public...

It's still a commonly held view that the British government at the time misled the public over the invasion of Iraq, used overstated propaganda about weapons of mass destruction, notably in the infamous 'dodgy dossier' that made unsubstantiated claims that Iraq could use weapons of mass destruction within 45 minutes of an order...

The concerns remain that the claims were used to promote an attack on Iraq which effectively resulted in a slaughter...

The warnings from peace campaigners prior to the attacks that it would destabilise the region and lead to more hostilities, including increasing terrorism, appears to have been born out...

Protesters argue full disclosure of what went on would strengthen the function of democracy in the UK rather than harm it; and help to prevent further mistakes being made in the future...

As well as help to increase participation in the democratic process, restoring faith in the idea of government acting in the interests of ordinary people and fairness...