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A landmark in the struggle for peace
LIZ PAYNE looks back 70 years to when the World Peace Council came to Sheffield – against the best efforts of Attlee’s Labour Party
A poster advertising the peace congress and Pablo Picasso who was initially denied a visa to enter Britain for the event
[Picasso image: Paulo Monti / Creative Commons]
A call from the World Peace Council to the peace movements of the world
JOHN GREEN argues that the spreading practice of closing bank account without proof of criminality is an infringement of an elementary human right
SEVIM DAGDELEN asks why the European Union is targeting the Swiss academic Jacques Baud, cutting off his access to banking services
IAN SINCLAIR looks at how we are made to swallow, without question, the porkies fed to us by the mass media
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SEVENTY years ago, from November 13 to 19 1950, a huge international peace conference was to have taken place in Sheffield, with thousands of delegates attending from across the world.
To its eternal shame, the Labour government of the day did everything in its power to stop it.
But, while it may have succeeded in foreshortening the meeting in Britain, a one-day event was held, despite every obstacle placed in its way.
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