Protesting at Aldermaston
Monday’s peaceful blockade of Aldermaston’s nuclear bomb factory was the biggest for a decade. Hundreds of protestors gathered from 5.30am to block the gates...
Miliband’s hollow rhetoric
Foreign Secretary David Miliband’s address to the Labour Party Conference was a great disappointment, avoiding crucial foreign policy issues. His speech failed to address...
US-India nuclear deal: gateway to proliferation
Later this week, the Nuclear Suppliers Group will reconvene to decide whether to lift a 34 year embargo on the transfer of nuclear material...
From Georgia to Poland
The United States seems hell bent on escalating tensions with Russia. It has pushed NATO expansion through eastern Europe into the former Soviet Republics....
The return of Dr Strangelove
On 6th August – the 63rd anniversary of the Hiroshima bombing – Stanley Kubrick’s cult Cold War classic ‘Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned...
Come to Aldermaston
Written by Kate Hudson It’s almost fifty years since the first peace march to Aldermaston. Five decades later, the need to protest at the site is...
Money for death
Written by Kate Hudson Today Parliament voted huge increases in spending on war. The budget for Afghanistan has been increased by 48% and Iraq by 52% over the...
Government own-goal on protest
There have been many criticisms, over the past few years, of the government’s record on civil liberties and the right to protest. Its attacks...
Political lessons in Scotland
I’ve been up in Scotland recently with Scottish CND, speaking at a number of meetings from Glasgow to Aberdeen. It is very clear that...
Nuclear abolition and the presidential race
Will the outcome of the US presidential race make a difference to prospects for nuclear abolition? For the first time in many years, I...