What to make of today's UN arms trade treaty
by Daniel Lee I've just returned from New York, where in July and for the last two weeks I've been working with Control Arms to campaign for a strong and…
¡No Pasarán! David Lomon 1918-2012, survivor of the International Brigade
David Lomon, the last survivor in Britain* of the International Brigade, died yesterday. He was 94. A salesman in Hackney, East London, Lomon started his political life battling Oswold Mosley's…
How we deny our bloody history – a review of the Imperial War Museum
The stories we tell ourselves define who we are. With this in mind, on Friday, I visited the Imperial War Museum. I am practically pacifist, and certainly anti-imperialist. So I…
We shall reach them in the classrooms: Promoting a 'military ethos' in schools
Will McCallum Fostering a 'military ethos' in schools: what's going on. Earlier this month the Department for Education published a statement on their website outlining their ambition to promote…
Even if Iran did have nukes, what would it do with them?
It took some chutzpah for the prime minister of the country possessing the world’s largest unregulated nuclear arsenal to lecture the United Nations on the dangers of an Iranian bomb.…
Colombia, fuck yeah!
Over on the MSNBC photoblog there are some enlightening shots from the frontline of the war on drugs. But they tell us the opposite of what they're meant to. Look…
No shock doctrine for Libya
To say that the West's involvement in Libya was all about oil was always far too simplistic. For any country to commit military force, a number of people must conclude…
Is there a political solution to halt genocide in the Nuba Mountains, Sudan?
Guest post by Tim Flatman, who has recently returned from South Sudan. Is genocide always an irrational action carried out by a despot who has lost his grasp on reality, or…
Happy Armed Forces Day
UK fatalities Iraq: 179 UK fatalities Afghanistan: 374 US fatalities Iraq: 4463 US fatalities Afghanistan: 1663 Iraqi fatalities: 100,000+ (perhaps as high as a million) Afghan fatalities: 10,000+ (No…
A tribute to Brian Haw 1949-2011
Brian Haw, who has died aged 62, had the distinction of being one of the few people with a law dedicated to stopping his activities. His protest in Parliament Square…