Issue: 2554

February 2013

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Action Atomic Weapons Eradication! Now!

by Clare Cochrane

At last Trident is on its way out. After 19 years of service, the Vanguard class nuclear-powered submarines that carry the 58 Trident II missiles designed to deliver more than 180 thermonuclear warheads are ready for retirement. 

Hard harvest

by Gill Knight

Gill Knight has been doing solidarity work in Palestine for a number of years.  This autumn she helped bring in the olive crop.

News

Alfie Meadows and Zak King face third trial

by David Polden

Student protestors Alfie Meadows and Zak King face a third trial for taking part in a  demonstration on 9 December 2010 against the trebling of university tuition fees, the scrapping of the Educational Maintenance Allowance and other attacks on public education.

Court rules out whistleblower defence for Bradley Manning

by Timothy Bidon

On 16 January, US military judge colonel Denise Lind ruled that US army intelligence officer Bradley Manning will not be able to use a whistleblower defence during his trial.

Kabul winter appeal

by PN

Thousands of kilos of aid is delivered.

Peace across borders: VCNV UK in Afghanistan

by Timothy Bidon

In early January, a delegation of British women from Voices for Creative Non-Violence UK (VCNV UK) returned from a two-week peace delegation in Afghanistan (see PN 2552-2553). 

More features

The march that shook Blair

by PN

Ten years on from 15 February 2003, Peace News publishes a new book on the demo.

Women for Life on Earth

by PN

From Cardiff to Greenham Common

Aldermaston Women

by AWPC

An update on the long-running peace camp at the Atomic Weapons Establishment

News

US trainers bring magic to Margate

by Milan Rai

Training for Change

Lockheed Martin, Regent Street

by PN

Raising awareness in the heart of London

Fallujah protestors killed by Iraqi army

by Milan Rai

At least five demonstrators were shot dead in the Iraqi city of Fallujah on 25 January as a Sunni anti-government protest came into conflict with the Iraqi army, who were blocking their way or trying to disperse them.

More comment

30 years ago: Peace camps round-up

by Albert Beale

At their height, there were a dozen simultaneous peace camps at military bases around Britain; PN ran a regular round-up each fortnight.

Liverpool Diary: February 2013

by Jennifer Verson

Thoughts from Rose Howey housing co-op

Leslie Gordon Harris: October 1916 – 31 December 2012

by Rosa Gilbert

Leslie Gordon Harris, Christian pacifist and Second World War conscientious objector, died at West Middlesex Hospital in December, aged 96.

Ian Thomas: 29 March 1963 – 28 December 2012

by Sian Jones, Ippy D

In December, our good friend Ian Thomas died, unexpectedly, aged 49. He had a heart attack while asleep at home in Southampton.

Award

by kennardphillips

A photomontage by Cat Picton-Philips and Peter Kennard

Cartoons etc

Telford by Tony Telford

Rooumination... by Donald Rooum

Almost... by SEG

Jill's Defence Weekly by Jill Gibbon