Bruce Kent – Why I support the #StopTrident demo
Bruce Kent, MAW President Emeritus & CND vice-President, on why he’s supporting the Stop Trident national demonstration on Saturday 27 February 2016 in London.
Press release: MAW backs Corbyn “no”
The Movement for the Abolition of WarPRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 1 OCTOBER 2015 MAW BACKS CORBYN’S DECLARATION THAT ‘I WON’T PRESS NUCLEAR BUTTON’ The Movement for the Abolition of War has given full support to Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn for saying he would not be prepared to launch …
Conflict and Climate Change DVD and book
“An extraordinarily good resource, and a hopeful one about engaging with the issues of conflict and climate change” – Christine Blower, General Secretary of the National Union of Teachers Buy now for just £9 + P&P
Armed Drones: time to call a halt
by Lesley Docksey, 18/07/11 The UK Ministry of Defence, in common with the defence policies of other states, is increasing its development, manufacture and use of armed drones. In a report published earlier this year, it stated that ‘a technological tipping point is approaching that may well deliver a genuine revolution in …
Challenge Militarism
A publication from Women’s International League for Peace & Freedom, 2010 “Whilst military capacity is exposed every day to be a terminally ineffective method of assuring security given the nature of modern threats, militaries the world over consume ever-increasing amounts of the world’s human and economic resources. Despite this realization, …
“The Green Zone: the environmental costs of militarism” review
by Barry SandersAK Press, 2009 Given the crisis of climate change, military carbon emissions are a matter of concern, but facts have been hard to come by. Barry Sanders, basing his research on the American military machine, illustrates what an enormous environmental threat all military activity poses. He gives numerous …
Climate and Conflict, Dr Stuart Parkinson, 2008
Our earth’s environmental crisis will almost certainly be the driver of any future wars – directly or indirectly. The speaker at our AGM in 2008, Dr Stuart Parkinson, set the scene with his presentation ‘Climate Change and Military Conflict’. Dr Parkinson is the Director of Scientists for Global Responsibility. Their …
Making War History
by Bruce KentThis article first appeared in Pax Christi’s newsletter, Justpeace, for March/April 2005 “Making Poverty History” must also mean making war history. World annual military expenditure is again creeping up to the 1 trillion dollar mark – that’s a thousand billion dollars a year – a sum that dwarfs …