Anti-war soldier Joe Glenton (see p2) shared a cell in the Military Correctional Training Centre, Colchester, with another soldier serving nine months for going absent without official leave (after service in Iraq). Joe persuaded Ross Williams, 22, to go public on his release. Ross told Socialist Worker: “I joined the army because there is nothing here in Neath, no jobs and no future… the careers office… sold me the world. But it was a load of bollocks.” “Parents think it’s a good thing for their children to join up but it’s not. People are being killed in Afghanistan for nothing...”
Topics: War resisters