Sunday 11 November 2018 Serious remembrance of wars calls for serious work for peace. Make a date with the peace movement!MAW is a member of the FIRST WORLD WAR PEACE FORUM* which is organising events on Remembrance Day : A ceremony of Remembrance and Peace … 100 years after the end of …
The 18th song completes the collection, begun as 14 songs for 2014. Sue Gilmurray writes: “Vera is Vera Brittain, author of the memoir Testament of Youth, and mother of Shirley Williams. She was an intelligent, attractive, privileged young woman, who was appalled when her fiance, her brother and her best …
Philip Jennings, General Secretary of UNI Global Union 12th November 2017 The Annual MAW Remembrance Day Lecture was held at the Imperial War Museum, London on Sunday 12th November 2017. Philip Jennings, General Secretary of UNI Global Union, gave an inspiring lecture on the subject of “Freedom from Fear: Unions for Peace”. Here is the …
12/11/17 GLOBAL UNION LEADER CALLS FOR COLLECTIVE ACTION FOR PEACE 12/09/17 JAW JAW NOT NUCLEAR WAR WAR, SAY ABOLITIONISTS 24/11/15 SAY NO TO UK BOMBING SYRIA, URGES MAW 01/10/15 MAW BACKS CORBYN’S DECLARATION THAT ‘I WON’T PRESS NUCLEAR BUTTON’ 28/09/15 MAW booklet focuses on trauma of combat stress 20/07/15 MAW …
MAW has published a new booklet, “From War to Peace – Thoughts on the end of Warfare”, a collection of quotations and illustrations which updates and builds on an earlier publication. “Wise and powerful words”. Order it now, or download a pdf version
In work for global justice and peace, not surprisingly, there are highs and lows. My earliest ‘high’ comes in the form of a League of Nations colour poster issued just before the 1932 Geneva disarmament conference. It shows lots of children marching hopefully towards peace. The League of Nations Union …
[T]he crisis between the US and North Korea has exposed the reality that nuclear deterrence is not only unlawful and immoral: it provokes insecurity and irrational recklessness on both sides, and stimulates hostility, nuclear arms racing and proliferation. As such, it is self-defeating and contrary to common sense. Retired Royal …
AN OPEN LETTER to THE PRIME MINISTER from Commander Robert Green, Royal Navy (Ret’d)PO Box 8390Christchurch 8440New Zealand The Rt. Honourable Theresa May, MPOffice of the Prime Minister10 Downing StreetLondon SW1A 2AAUnited Kingdom 1 October 2017 Dear Prime Minister, UK Trident, Nuremberg, the 1996 World Court Judgment, and now the Treaty to …
Bruce Kent, MAW Vice President, responds to an article by Robert Fox in the Evening Standard, following the US missile attack on Syria. Dear Editor US STRIKES ON SYRIA Robert Fox (ES 7th April 17 p5) could not have got it more wrong. Individual States have no legal right whatever …
Protest, Power & Change is the theme of the 2017 Peace History Conference. Organised by MAW in partnership with Imperial War Museums, it will take place on Friday 9 and Saturday 10 June in London. Frank Cottrell Boyce, children’s novelist and screenwriter, will open the conference. Among topics on …
