Two decades of fighting for peace
In a farewell interview with Ben Chacko, outgoing CND general secretary KATE HUDSON reflects on 21 years of leading Britain’s peace movement, tracing the evolution of global threats and peace activism from the cold war to today
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By spreading race-based conspiracy theories, the billionaire tycoon turned right-wing provocateur has been seriously undermining the case against those who really did let victims of the grooming gangs down, writes SOLOMON HUGHES
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KEITH BENNETT explains why, despite its present meagre economic outcomes, an honest and fruitful partnership with China is worth pursuing
Nick Wright talks to photographer and author JANINA STRUK
KATE HUDSON, who has led the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) for 21 years, retired yesterday.
Yet its mobilisation today in protest at the return of US nuclear weapons to the Lakenheath air base in Suffolk has echoes of her earliest days in peace activism, when she and so many others mobilised against the deployment of US cruise missiles in the early 1980s.
“With hundreds of thousands of others, I became involved in the demonstrations at that time, as well as the women’s mobilisations at Greenham Common,” she tells the Morning Star. The power of protest worked: “Eventually, the cruise missiles were kicked out.
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