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I operated Britain’s nuclear weapons and Jeremy Corbyn is right to oppose Trident

Robert Green 13 November 2015. Posted in News by Ecologist via Stop the War Commander Robert Green says Corbyn’s stance on nuclear weapons is honourable and both legally and strategically correct. Dear Jeremy, As a former operator of British nuclear…

Financial institutions drop the bomb from their investment portfolio

53 financial institutions prohibit or limit investments in nuclear weapon producers, shows Don’t Bank on the Bomb, a report published today by Dutch peace organization PAX. This is a 150% increase compared to last year’s report. The increase illustrates the…

Negotiating nuclear weapons: A Silent Battle of Power

The United Nations General Assembly adopts countless resolutions on nuclear weapons, every year. But this year something was different. At the UN headquarters in New York, a significant battle over nuclear weapons took place. Taking the form of competing resolutions,…

Latest assaults on Jeremy Corbyn getting more bizarre and undemocratic by the minute

Remembrance Day (sometimes known as Poppy Day) is a memorial day observed in the British Commonwealth member states (the UK’s former colonies and a few others) since the end of the First World War to remember the members of their…

Great social convergence embraces peace in Colombia

Bogota, Nov 6 (Prensa Latina) Colombian indigenous people, Afro-descendants,countryside workers, students, workers and religious people are boosting today the creation of a social space for for peace to favor discussions to support the Government-insurgency talks and build a scene for…

You can’t eliminate nuclear weapons by keeping them!

Nuclear weapons: yes or no? This article courtesy of our friends at Wildfire>_. Everyone wants nuclear disarmament, right? All countries support the goal of a world free of nuclear weapons – at least, that’s what they keep telling us at…

Majority of countries pledge to support negotiations towards a nuclear weapon ban treaty

At the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), nuclear disarmament resolutions passed this week by large majorities in the First Committee show continued and growing support for disarmament measures “in a new key.” These measures have arisen under the banner of…

UK government must end arms sales and political support for Egypt’s General Sisi

As Egyptian autocrat General Sisi arrives in London, Campaign Against Arms Trade has called for the UK government to end arms sales to his regime and stop the political support that bolsters it. Andrew Smith of Campaign Against Arms Trade…

Scottish Labour Party votes to abolish the UK’s Trident nuclear weapons system

Jeremy Corbyn opposes nuclear weapons but he could not have the Labour Party conference debate the issue. Now his position has been given a new impetus by the Scottish Labour Party as they stated their opposition to the renewal of…

It’s time to ban nuclear weapons: with or without consensus

As the UN General Assembly debates continue, Reaching Critical Will produces a weekly publication, First Committee Monitor, which deals with the issues raised in the First Committee, responsible for disarmament issues.  Pressenza is publishing this week’s editorial article by Ray…

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