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"Peace News has compiled an exemplary record... its tasks have never been more critically important than they are today." Noam Chomsky

Chomsky warns of climate emergency

Global South takes lead on zero-carbon future as climate denier elected US president

Disjointed, despairing, determined, devoted

Six radical US women respond to the election of Donald Trump as US president

Viking Economics: how the Scandinavians got it right – and how we can, too

Ian Sinclair reviews George Lakey's new book

Headlines

CAAT will prove Britain has acted illegally in arming the Saudi assault on Yemen

High Court to scrutinise UK arms exports

Back to Drax

Biofuels challenged in North Yorks

Humbled in love

Peace activists walk free after actions in Australia and the US.

Migrant deaths increase as EU focuses on border control

Death-rate has tripled says UN

Memory

Alternative remembrance day events held around UK

Sisters of mercy

Women vow to continue sailing to Gaza after ship seized

Features

The UN will ban nuclear weapons in 2017

by Janet Fenton

Global nuclear-weapons-free zone could hinder US military

The Lucas Aerospace Plan

by Milan Rai

Cut War, Not Jobs: an inspiring example of constructive thinking from the 1970s

The Feminist Library wins a reprieve

by Feminist Library Management Committee

Celebrating a powerhouse of women’s archiving and activism since 1975

Spotlight on Saudi

by Ian Sinclair

An interview with the co-founder of the women-led US peace group CODEPINK.

Sowing seeds of hope

by Andrea Needham

A direct action PN booktour around Britain

From the Blog

20 Jan: Build Bridges Not Walls!

by PN staff | 23 Dec, 2016

A call for banner drops on 20 January, the date of Donald Trump's inauguration (as sent to PN)

The future is in our hands

by Maddy Ridgley | 9 Dec, 2016

A report from the Movement Against War youth delegation to the International Peace Bureau Congress on demilitarisation.

Raising atomic awareness

by Elizabeth Ingrams | 20 Oct, 2016

An interview with Daniele Santi – secretary general of the Buddhist peace group, Senzatomica.

It’s about time the British had an identity crisis

by Tim Gee | 21 Jul, 2016

A member of the 'Jilted Generation' sees five factors re-shaping young people's sense of national identity....

What about the border between humans and the Earth?

by | 14 Jul, 2016

A comic preacher from New York responds to the Brexit debate and vote - Earthalujah!

Comment

Editorial: sanctuary, solidarity and strategy

Those threatened by Trump's regime - not the man himself - should be the focus for campaigners, argues Milan Rai

Theresa May, Lucas Aerospace, workers’ self-management and decarbonising the economy

What are Britain's corporate leader so worried about?

Bruce Kent: As I please

The Personal Column: The food of love

Lessons in harmony

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Reviews

Gary Younge, Another Day in the Death of America

Mary M Talbot and Bryan Talbot, The Red Virgin and the Vision of Utopia

See Red Women’s Workshop – Feminist Posters 1974–1990

Hsiao-Hung Pai, Angry White People: Coming Face-to-Face with the British Far Right

The World Is My Country

As part of our project to celebrate the people and movements that opposed the First World War, Peace News has published a series of posters (produced by Emily Johns) and the stories behind them (written by Gabriel Carlyle). Excerpts of four of these are printed below. The posters and accompanying book are available to buy here. For more information, see The World Is My Country.