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Why peace and nuclear disarmament are at the heart of non-alignment
CND leader KATE HUDSON highlights how the countries of the global South are at the forefront of of the struggle for a nuclear-free world
LOUD AND CLEAR: Protesters in Taipei, Taiwan [Public Domain]

AS OUR world spirals toward the catastrophe of nuclear war, there has never been a greater need for a new global balancing, a rejection of great power war, exploitation and aggression.

Now, more than ever, we need to reject the brutal unipolar agenda of the US, the dividing up of the world between hostile powers and the suppression of the rights of the many in the interests of the few.

Nowhere is this clearer than the possession of nuclear weapons: only nine states possess these ultimate weapons of mass destruction, yet they can hold the rest of the world to ransom with their nuclear terror.

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