I WENT to RAF Fairford peace rally yesterday (Sat, March 22), walked from the village square to the airfield, with an orderly procession of common folk of all ages and I would guess four thousand strong.

Young folk, old folk, mothers with children, mothers with infants, children of school age, young university students, male and female, about the same sort of people that were gathered when the peace rally marched in Swindon and in London.

Sadly, and conspicuous by their absence, on each occasion I failed to come across any sharp suited or pinstriped, rolled up umbrella types banging on drums or throwing their bowler hats in the air.

Too much to hope for really, for this war, like every war that is waged, is an economics orientated war and no matter the exhortations by the speakers at each rally and even if there were five million protesters each and every day these wars will take place while there is the slightest justification or reason and the wealth motive sufficient.

Eventually, I believe, we will be fighting not only for oil but also for fish stocks, fresh water, timber, minerals, and land. Not surreptitiously as now, but open and defiantly. There is an answer and not yet too late. Those I spoke to on the rallies didn't want to know, maybe nobody wants to know. Abolish money, there by remove greed and waste and dog eat dog. Anybody know a better way.

E W Reynolds

Weedon Road

Coleview

Swindon