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Comment and Analysis

Activism and...telling the parents

Comment | May 2013

For my parents, people who go to court are people who ha

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50 years ago: PPU stays on the fence

by Albert Beale | Comment | May 2013

Whether to work more with peace campaigns with limited aims, at the expense of concentrating on the fundamental issue of the rejection of war itself, is a never-ending debate within pacifist organisations. Here, Harry Mister reports from the 1963 AGM of the Peace Pledge Union.

Diary: Thinking about group dynamics

by Hannah Lewis | Comment | May 2013

In March I spent a week in the eco-cabins at the Centre for Alternative Technology in Wales, at a workshop organised by trainers from three training collectives – Rhizome, Tripod and Seeds for Change.

Liverpool gains a gem!

by Howard Clark | Comment | May 2013

A send-off to long-time PN volunteer, Martyn Lowe

Editorial: Wobbly Maggie

by The Editors | Comment | May 2013

On Thatcher’s moments of vulnerability

Self portrait

by Annette Bygott | Comment | May 2013

“I was doing a self-portrait around the time when the firestorm on Iraq started. That was ten years ago. It was the beginning of the immoral and illegal onslaught on people like us. Thinking of their religion and ancient culture, I gave myself a kind of hijab to say where and with whom my heart was at that hour of unfolding horror.”

50 years ago: The spies were right

by Albert Beale | Comment | April 2013

Anti-nuclear campaigners caused a furore in 1963 by publishing details of the government’s secret Third World War control bunkers, to coincide with CND’s Aldermaston March at Easter.