General secretary of the General Federation of Trade Unions GAWAIN LITTLE calls for support and participation in the national partnership organised to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the 1926 general strike
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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
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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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