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The memorial stone for conscientious objectors at London’s Tavistock Square and (right) a rose grows between the headstones at the Commonwealth War Graves Commission's Wytschaete Military Cemetery, near Ypres, Belgium
ARMISTICE Day is a day to campaign to “end all wars,” peace campaigners said as the country marked Remembrance Sunday yesterday.
And the Peace Pledge Union called for the victims of colonial conflicts to be remembered too.
A rally in London’s Tavistock Square honoured all victims of war, with attendees vowing to work for a more peaceful world.
WILL DRY speaks to three former members of the armed forces about the political hypocrisy surrounding Armistice Day, how war is a function of class society, and the far right’s use of militarism and nationalism to divide working people
LYNNE WALSH reports from last weekend’s moving remembrance of the International Brigades in London’s Jubilee Gardens where anti-fascists gathered to hear how even in the darkest of times we can build a vision of a better tomorrow, as the Brigaders fought to do 89 years ago
LIZ PAYNE condemns how Labour backs war in Gaza and Ukraine, and massive funding for Trident’s nuclear bombs, when billions are needed just to restore public services