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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

Snap!

The PN guide to peace movement guides to the British general election

Let’s talk about class

Meet Betsy Leondar-Wright at this year’s ground-breaking Peace News Summer Camp

Late at night with an undercover

A PN worker remembers a narrow escape with a police infiltrator

Headlines

Famine threat to millions as Saudi attack on Yemeni port looms

Saudis have asked US for permission for devastating assault

Global Climate Action

Over 280 events take place in 45 countries

Chelsea’s free!

PN & friends celebrate release of US whistleblower

Muslim activist faces prison for keeping silent

Prosecution part of sustained attack on human rights group

Palestinian hunger strike

850 prisoners enter sixth week of hunger strike

The men who said ‘No!’

Mark Rylance joins CO commemoration

An evangelical anarchist cop

by Milan Rai

PN's editor recalls his experience of a 'police triple-decker sandwich'

The rise and fall of Phil Shiner

by Ian Sinclair

How a human rights lawyer was destroyed

Occupy 1967!

by Diana Shelley

50 years after the colonels’ coup in Greece

Case Study: Funafil workers’ 410-day occupation Guatemala, 1987–1988

by Karen Ridd

How striking workers resisted a seven-day work week

Murad Subay

by Murad Subay

Art by the award-winning Yemeni artist

From the Blog

Majority of states agree to ban nuclear weapons at United Nations

by PN staff | 7 Jul, 2017

122 countries vote in favour of a treaty banning nuclear weapons - Britain refused to participate

What Does War Generate?

by Kathy Kelly | 3 Jul, 2017

Who carries out the works of mercy in the war-torn country of Afghanistan?

Peace History Conference 2017 - London

by PN staff | 28 Jun, 2017

Blending theatre, art and politics, the Peace History Conferences go from strength to strength

MCR: Salman Abedi's disappearing sister

by Milan Rai | 22 Jun, 2017

How the mainstream media self-censored 'revenge' for western foreign policy from their reporting on the Manchester attacks

Comment

Editorial: How do we ‘survive politics’?

We can't win radical change just by electing "the right people", argues Milan Rai

Bruce Kent: As I please

A bit of ecclesiastical direct action, anyone?

The Personal Column: Peace Piece

San Ghanny

Diary: Highs and lows

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Reviews

Shon Meckfessel, Nonviolence Ain’t What It Used to Be: Unarmed Insurrection and the Rhetoric of Resistance

George Paxton, Nonviolent Resistance to the Nazis

Michael Knapp & Ercan Ayboga, Revolution in Rojava: Democratic Autonomy and Women’s Liberation in Syrian Kurdistan

Meg-John Barker & Julia Scheele, Queer: A Graphic History

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.