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Harvey Pekar, Gary Dumm and Paul Buhle, 'Students for a Democratic Society: A Graphic History'

by Gabriel Carlyle | Review | May 2010

Hill and Wang, 2009; ISBN 978-0-809-089-39-0; 224pp; £10.99

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Shaped by War: Photographs by Don McCullin

by Catherine Ban | Review | April 2010

10am-6pm daily until 13 June, Imperial War Museum North, The Quays, Trafford Wharf Road, Manchester M17 1TZ; then 11 September – 21 November, Victoria Art Gallery, Bath; and 7 October 2010 – 30 January 2012, Imperial War Museum London; Don McCullin, Shaped by War, Jonathan Cape Ltd, 2010; ISBN 978-0-224-090-26-1; 208pp; £25

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Bringing the message of the Flemish Peace Institute to Wales

by Lotte Reimer | News | April 2010

Nelly Maes, president of the Flemish Peace Institute, spoke at the David Davies Memorial Institute (DDMI) in Aberystwyth on 24 February to an audience of students and local people. ...

Tell it like it is

by Jeff Cloves | Comment | March 2010

The greatest pleasure in writing for PN has always been that its editors let me write about whatever catches my fancy. ...

Activism and... Raise Your Banners

Comment | December 2009 - January 2010

Other people go to Glastonbury; I go to Raise Your Banners. ...

Goshka Macuga, 'The Nature of the Beast', Whitechapel Art Gallery and Gijs van Hensbergen, 'Guernica: The Biography of a Twentieth–Century Icon'

by Emily Johns | Review | December 2009 - January 2010

Whitechapel Art Gallery, 77-82 Whitechapel High Street, London E1 7QX. Tuesday-Sunday until 18 April 2010. Guernica: The Biography of a Twentieth–Century Icon, Bloomsbury, 2005, ISBN 0 7475 6873 1, 374pp, £8.99

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A peace institute for Wales?

by John Cox and Jill Gough | News | December 2009 - January 2010

Over 1500 signatures have been collected calling for the National Assembly of Wales to create a Peace Institute comparable with those in Flanders, Catalonia, Finland, Norway and elsewhere. ...

Resisting hate

by Jeff Cloves | Comment | November 2009

There was a letter in October’s PN headlined: “Research on Reading”. I missed the capital letter and found I was reading about Reading and the impact of the cold war on this town. ...

Omer Fast, 'Nostalgia.' Three-part film installation at the South London Gallery

by Susan Clarkson | Review | November 2009

65 Peckham Road, SE5 8UH until 6 December. 12noon – 6pm, Tues–Sun. www.southlondongallery.org

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Peace, politics, and the peloton

by Jeff Cloves | Comment | September 2009

During the Second World War, BSA Cycles made folding bicycles for paratroopers. ...