On 1 October, Iran startled the world by making two dramatic concessions in the long-standing crisis over its uranium enrichment programme, ‘agreeing…
In his major speech on Afghanistan on 4 September, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown emphasized Britain’s self interest in prosecuting the war…
[Contribution to the Reimagining Society Project hosted by ZCommunications] Teaching a course on strategy to a group of 12-year-olds was very…
In his thoughtful, moving and inspiring study The Next Upsurge: Labour and the New Social Movements, radical US academic Dan Clawson distinguished…
Invited to take part in a discussion about ‘growing the radical peace movement’ (in Britain), I turned to my esteemed co-editor (of…
The background to Climate Camp is as follows: This week the third annual Camp for Climate Action is taking place in southern…
As I stood by the side of the road in Whitehall, a woman came up and bought a copy of Peace News…
All nonviolent activities and strategies are useless. Unless they are carried out by people who are also bombing, shooting and rioting. Hmmm.…
Being a home-educating parent (they tend to call it home-schooling or unschooling in the US) has been enriching in all sorts of…
The US claims that Iran supplies Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDS) to Iraqi insurgents. No serious evidence has been provided.Ā Ā Ā SUMMARYĀ Ā …
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