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Anti-war organisation is needed more than ever
To suggest we no longer need pro-peace organisations like the Stop the War Coalition while we are once again in the midst of war fever in the West is nonsense, explains COLL McCAIL
JOHN REES looks at why the June 20 international anti-war conference is such a vital initiative
Associate Professor BUI QUANG TUAN explains how modernisation and growth are helping to unlock new foreign investment in the Vietnamese economy
New workplace rights are welcome, but the survival of the trade union movement will be determined not in Westminster but in workplaces across the country, argues JOHN CARSON
Nearly two decades after leaving office, the former PM is still trumpeting the same futile militarism and failed free market dogmas. The question naturally arises: why does anyone still listen to him, says ANDREW MURRAY
Very modest growth in membership serves to underline the need for a change of recruiting strategies, posits NIGEL FLANAGAN
ON the day that Andrew Fisher called for the Stop the War Coalition to disband, Lord George Robertson was named Dundee University chancellor. As Nato’s 10th secretary-general, Robertson oversaw the organisation’s imperialist intervention in Afghanistan and supported Bush’s illegal invasion of Iraq.
Robertson’s ascendancy to “nominal head” of Dundee University should remind us of the urgent need to combat militarism’s creeping influence on our campuses and throughout public life. To dissolve a mass anti-war organisation, with thousands of fee-paying members, makes this task infinitely harder.
Despite Fisher’s claim that the war on terror as we know it is over, the military-industrial complex’s influence endures. The Scotsman revealed recently that more than 900 US military planes refuelled at Scotland’s government-owned Prestwick airport in 2022.
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