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Issue 2551 | November 2012

Editorial: Anti-cuts, pro-change

by Milan Rai and Emily Johns | Comment | November 2012

There are converging agendas for different movements - anti-cuts, climate, disarmament, labour movement...

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News in Brief

GM fears revived· Kudankulam· Intruder alert· Sports make peace · First jailed squatter· Guantánamo names· Kufr Qaddoum arrests· US internment law· Render unto Caesar· Nepal· Western Sahara ...read

Letters

Boycott coverage· Feedback time ...read

Reviews

Why Noise Matters
Fly and be Damned

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Defending the environment against a new generation of road schemes

Defeat Osborne’s road follies

by John Stewart | Feature | November 2012

One of Britain's most effective environmentalists explains how the government's roads programme could be stopped in its tracks at the very beginning.

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Combe Haven Defenders

by Patrick Nicholson | Feature | November 2012

A warning of things to come: a temporary anti-road camp on the South Coast

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Sweet special places

by Derrick Coffee | Feature | November 2012

A Hastings Alliance speech at the Combe Haven Defenders' camp.

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News

UK spends £2bn on MoD drones – commits £2bn more

by Gabriel Carlyle | News | November 2012

There's more and more information and protest about military drones.

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Drones walk reaches RAF Waddington

by PN staff | News | November 2012

The highlight of the Drones Week of Action 2012 was an eight-day, 90-mile peace walk.

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Trident will be outlawed – SNP

by Leonna O'Neill | News | November 2012

In an independent Scotland, nuclear weapons will be ruled illegal by the constitution!

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Peace Days in Wrexham

by Genny Bove | News | November 2012

Wrexham activists organise a three-day festival of peace.

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Scotland, nae place fur NATO?

by Leonna O'Neill | News | November 2012

A Faslane Peace Camper explores the possibilities for a nuclear-free and independent Scotland.

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News

Mass tresspass at Hinkley: six arrested during two-day camp

by David Polden | News | November 2012

A variety of protests were seen during a weekend camp at the Hinkley nuclear power station.

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Iran offers negotiated solution as sanctions bite

by Milan Rai | News | November 2012

The Iranian nuclear crisis intensifies.

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Census COs

by PN staff | News | November 2012

Conscientious objectors to the 2011 Census in the UK continue their courtroom struggles.

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National Gallery cuts arms link as CAAT wins prize

by PN staff | News | November 2012

The Campaign Against Arms Trade celebrates a double victory

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Comment

The never-ending happening

by Jeff Cloves | Comment | November 2012

The Personal Column

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Obituary: Crispin Aubrey

by Albert Beale | Comment | November 2012

3 January 1946 – 28 September  2012

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Liverpool Diary: November 2012

by Jennifer Verson | Comment | November 2012

Radio class with Fatoumata, and other incidents.

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35 years ago

by Albert Beale | Comment | November 2012

Selections from the Peace News archive

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Activism and... partying

by PN | Comment | November 2012

Do these words go together? 'Activism' and 'partying'....

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Features

Cut war, not jobs

by Milan Rai and Emily Johns | Feature | November 2012

Cameron commits £2bn to drones while chopping disability benefits

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Shift capitalism

by Peter Robinson | Feature | November 2012

A new climate-labour coalition.

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Spain, austerity and police brutality

by Miguel Aguilera | Feature | November 2012

Eye witness: holding Neptuno Square for hours despite a police riot 

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Wobbly Tuesday

by Milan Rai | Feature | November 2012

The day that the MoD scrambled to change its invasion plans

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The Lucas Aerospace Plan

by PN staff | Feature | November 2012

This article is only available in the paper version of Peace News.

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