ROGER McKENZIE looks at how US doublespeak on the ‘war on drugs’ is used to camouflage its intended grab for of Latin America’s natural resources
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CND conference charts the path for a new peace movement
ROGER McKENZIE reports on how peace activists in Britain are uniting diverse struggles against war, climate change and racism to build a powerful force for global justice in an era of deepening conflict
Speakers (left to right) Roger McKenzie, Jeremy Corbyn, Kate Hudson and Andrew Feinstein
Plans to delay access to the universal credit health element until age 22 have triggered fierce opposition from disabled people’s groups, who warn it would deepen poverty and entrench discrimination against young disabled people under the guise of ‘encouraging work.’ DYLAN MURPHY reports
(March 1928 – December 2025)
Saluting an internationalist and a courageous and uncompromising seeker of the truth
The US assault on Venezuela is brazen and unlawful – yet our PM claims uncertainty. By refusing to confront Trump’s naked imperialism, Starmer abandons international law, mortgages British policy to Washington, and clears the ground for war, argues ANDREW MURRAY
RAINER RUPP examines former CIA analyst Larry Johnson’s description of the US operation to kidnap Nicolas Maduro as a tactically successful but strategically disastrous move, with shades of Bush’s disastrous intervention in Iraq
When Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022, Western outrage was absolute. Yet today, the tone is markedly more subdued regarding US aggression against Venezuela. The manner in which the media and politicians frame this invasion exposes a profound ideological double standard, writes MARC VANDEPITTE
HUNDREDS of peace campaigners gathered in central London last Saturday for a vital CND conference.
With the threat of a nuclear catastrophe being sparked by any one of the major conflicts in Ukraine and across the Middle East, it was more than timely that peace activists came together to share information and, perhaps more importantly, develop strategies for winning peace at a time when warfare and the mass killing of civilians is taking on the appearance of being normal.
I should declare an interest as I have the honour of being one of CND’s vice-presidents. But, I dare say, pretty much everyone who bothers to read my scribblings does so because they also have an interest in winning peace and, I hope, socialism.
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