Comments in issue 2588-2589

Activism and ... Petitions

by PN

Is it an effective form of protest?

40 years ago: Expensive production a big flop

by Albert Beale

PN produced an issue devoted to the verdicts and the aftermath of the Old Bailey trial in London of 14 pacifists and anti-militarists including PN staff involved in a campaign to give leaflets to soldiers about leaving the army; the conspiracy charges meant there was no upper limit to the prison sentences they faced.

Time for climate direct action

by Milan Rai

We can only win climate justice by breaking the rules

Editorial: Undermining national security

by Milan Rai

Why British foreign policy endangers us all.

After the massacres of Paris: dread, revolt, action

by Attac

Three French campaign groups respond to the 13 November atrocities in Paris.

Non-French war deaths matter

by David Swanson

US activist David Swanson urges a return to thinking.

The Personal Column: Jaw jaw not war war

by Jeff Cloves

Jeff Cloves reflects on the BBC's little-known motto

Radical Music: Paris & beyond

by Penny Stone

Penny Stone surveys music's role - radical and otherwise - at the Paris climate summit

Diary: (Last) words

by Virginia Moffatt

Hope, despair and reading