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EASTER 2019 is as late as the annual festival can be. It is more usually in late March or early April. That reminds us that it is 60 years since the first Aldermaston to London march organised by the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) which took place from March 27-30, 1959.
There had been a march at Easter 1958 supported by the new CND but organised by local direct action groups. It had gone from London to the Atomic Weapons Establishment at Aldermaston. The demand in 1959 however remained the same: ban the bomb.
The route from Aldermaston through Berkshire and west London to central London was 54 miles. By the third march in 1960 many thousands were involved in marching, but 1959 still had significant numbers.
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