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Issue 2532 | April 2011

Editorial: Libya

by Milan Rai and Emily Johns | Comment | April 2011

How quickly wars happen. One month, we see grassroots nonviolence toppling dictators. The next month, we see a civil war. ...

News in Brief

Nepal Crisis· Western Sahara· Obama turning· No big state!· Bradley 0-22· MoD £1bn error· Poppy burning· Barclays £6.6bn error· No big banks!· Bil'in 6-0· Hashman 1-0· BAE learning ...read

Letters

Deadly virtues· Western Sahara· Update from Tunisia ...read

Reviews

' Nonviolence for a Change', second edition
Judith Suissa, 'Anarchism and Education: A Philosophical Perspective'
John Bowles (ed), 'The Fair Trade Revolution' and Orla Ryan, 'Chocolate Nations: Living and Dying for Cocoa in West Africa'

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Arms, torture and the census

by Gabriel Carlyle | News | April 2011

The involvement of US arms giant Lockheed Martin (LM) in this year’s census – due to take place on 27 March – has spurred calls for both a boycott and creative obstruction. ...

Libya: the UN and the war

by Lauren Mateer | News | April 2011

Britain’s participation in the US-led war on Libya, which began on 19 March, followed the passing of United Nations security council resolution 1973, which calls for an end to attacks on c ...

Shannon conviction overturned

by David Polden | News | April 2011

Irish peace activist Mary Kelly has won a six-year struggle to overturn a conviction for a $1m action against the invasion of Iraq in 2003. ...

85,000 rise in Wisconsin

by David Polden | News | April 2011

On 10 March, in the teeth of mass political opposition, Wisconsin’s Republican-dominated state assembly passed the governor’s bill to repeal most collective bargaining by public employee u ...

UK boat to join Gaza convoy

by David Polden | News | April 2011

Departing in May, a boat carrying a contingent from Britain will join a convoy from 20 countries to the besieged people of Gaza. ...

Parliament Square: attack on protest

by Rikki | News | April 2011
  • Aborigine Tent Embassy, Canberra, 39 years
  • White House Peace Camp, 30 years
  • Faslane Peace Camp, 28 years l Falun Gong protest, Chinese Embassy, London, 8 years
  • Brian
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Trident is bad for jobs

by Kate Hudson | News | April 2011

CND has never and will never advocate military spending. ...

White Ribbon

by Sarah Young | News | April 2011

On 10 March, Stirling hosted Scotland’s White Ribbon march, organised by men taking action against violence against women. ...

Aberystwyth occupation continues strong!

by David Welles | News | April 2011

On 8 March, Aberystwyth Students Against Cuts celebrated a fortnight of occupying university premises. ...

Opencast attack

by Oli | News | April 2011

In mid-March, activists at the Happendon Wood Action Camp disrupted the South Lanarkshire council planning committee meeting that gave approval to Scottish Coal’s plans to develop Happendo ...

Free Heatherington!

by Sarah Young | News | April 2011

I met Karen and Alice at the Heatherington Recreation Club student occupation at Glasgow University. ...

Climate camp is dead! Long live climate camp!

by Anonymous | Feature | April 2011

Towards the end of 2005, an assortment of environmentalists met to discuss squatting a field next to a big source of carbon emissions, in order to shut it down and kickstart more radical a ...

Fusing our power

by Milan Rai | Feature | April 2011

We should be honest with ourselves. The anti-cuts movement is a broad movement, overwhelmingly liberal with a revolutionary fringe. ...

Village life

by Gill Knight | Feature | April 2011

During my time working with the International Women’s Peace Service I have witnessed many human rights abuses in the West Bank, Palestine – house demolitions, settler violence, army and se ...

We arm dictators, then bomb their people

by Milan Rai and Emily Johns | Feature | April 2011

As Peace News goes to press, Britain is once again bombing a Middle Eastern dictatorship that it previously helped to arm. ...

News from the home front

by Jeff Cloves | Comment | April 2011

A bit of autobiography. Bear with me, there’s reason. ...

Activism and... defining yourself

Comment | April 2011

This topic of having to define yourself is something that’s not just worth exploring but something necessary for us to explore. ...

Kicking Merthyr while it's down!

by Chris Austin | News | April 2011

Anyone heard of the Infrastructure Planning Commission (IPC)? No, neither had we until recently. ...

Faslane Spring

by Faslane Peace Camp | News | April 2011

After several years of the Faslane peace camp maintaining not much more than just a token presence, the campers have decided to start a drive towards bringing it back to life in time for t ...