Hans von Sponeck talks about the reform challenges that lie ahead on the basis of the lessons learnt from 13 years of Iraq sanctions and the illegal invasion that followed.
During this period, the UN security council, and the UN secretary-general, faced choices between succumbing to geopolitical pressures and breaking international law or managing UN Iraq sanctions in the interest of the Iraqi people and in accordance with the UN Charter. Hans von Sponeck is a former UN assistant…
Britain’s best-known peace researcher, Paul Rogers, has kept a careful eye on Iraq since the summer of 2002, when he predicted a US-led war against the Saddam Hussein regime.
In the years since, he has documented the brutal air wars, the harshness of occupation, and the rise of the ‘Islamic State’ terror network.
Paul Rogers is emeritus professor of Peace Studies in the Department of Peace Studies and International Relations at Bradford University. His books include: Irregular…
The US-UK invasion of Iraq in 2003 was seen in much of the world as the crime of the century, following another huge crime, over 12 years of economic sanctions that killed hundreds of thousands of Iraqi children. Twenty years on from the devastating invasion, and the start of the occupation, Iraq continues to experience high levels of violence, corruption and political instability.
Two co-founders of 'Act Together: Women's Action for Iraq', which initially campaigned against sanctions…
Years before Russia issued nuclear threats against Ukraine, Britain and the US engaged in nuclear bullying of another non-nuclear weapon state, Iraq.
20 years ago, defence secretary Geoff Hoon insisted publicly the British government ‘reserved the right’ to use nuclear weapons if British troops were threatened by chemical or biological weapons.
This talk by author and activist Milan Rai examines the nuclear threats made in the run-up to the US-UK invasion in 2003, showing how…
The British anti-war movement needs to realise how close it came to detaching Britain from the 2003 invasion of Iraq. UN weapons inspectors were about to throw a wrench into US war plans – we came close to giving them the time they needed.
On 11 March, ‘Wobbly Tuesday’, the MoD was reportedly ‘frantically preparing contingency plans to “disconnect” British troops entirely from the military invasion of Iraq’.
Peace News editor Milan Rai is the author of War Plan Iraq: 10 Reasons…
Medea Benjamin (Codepink) talks about the war in Ukraine on 9 January 2023, at an online event co-hosted by Peace News and CND and chaired by Tom Unterrainer, chair of CND.
Russia’s brutal February 2022 invasion of Ukraine has attracted widespread condemnation across the West. Government and media circles present the conflict as a simple clash between an evil empire and an innocent victim.
In her new book, War in Ukraine:…
Can pacifism answer the difficult questions raised by the Russian invasion of Ukraine? Isn't it right to supply weapons to someone defending themselves from attack? What about the right of self-defence? Doesn't this case of aggression just prove we need armed forces and nuclear weapons, to be able to defend our homeland from attack – or to deter those who would attack us?
On 7 April, Peace News spoke to a leading British pacifist, Symon Hill, about these questions. This is a recording…
This issue of Peace News from February 2021 brings together a collection of articles on racial justice.
A visual celebration of the people and movement that opposed the First World War.
As part of its First World War centenary project, The World is My Country, Peace News produced a series of ten colour posters and eight poetry / song broadsheets, celebrating key figures and events from the First World War anti-war movement. These can be viewed here.
We also produced a 100-page booklet…
An open letter from the radical peace movement to the radical climate change movement.
As part of its First World War centenary project, The World is My Country, Peace News has produced a series of ten colour posters and eight poetry / song broadsheets, celebrating key figures and events from the First World War anti-war movement.
Featuring the distinctive graphic art of…
