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SYMON HILL previews a new event on resisting militarism, organised by the Peace Pledge Union
Children being given weapons to handle at the Sunderland Air Show in 2017 [Wayne Sharrocks/Peace Pledge Union]

“IT’S been a good year for the war buffs,” remarked the US satirist Tom Lehrer in 1968, referring to the 50th anniversary of the end of World War I. 

Now, as we approach the 100th anniversary, there are again people who will use it as an opportunity to promote militarism. 

We’ve already seen this with the centenary of the founding of the RAF in April 1918. 

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