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When murder is not a crime

State killings in Northern Ireland: what you won’t read in recent Guardian coverage

Can we unite Leavers and Remainers?

How to have difficult conversations (about Brexit)

US climate breakthrough

How young activists in the Sunrise movement turned the old idea of a Green New Deal into a powerful movement

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Headlines

1,400,000 students strike for the climate

Actions across globe demand urgent action on climate change

Biggest protest ever at the British Museum

300+ demand end to oil sponsorship

Deportations make us sick

Campaigners gatecrash airline industry dinner

Immigration court victories

High Court orders halt to 'no warning' deportations

Stansted 15 spared jail, spark resistance

Sentencing prompts counter-trial and direct action

Four Green MEPs arrested at Belgian nuclear base

Action challenges EU countries to expel US nukes

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Features

I'm gonna lay down that atom bomb
by Linda Pearson

A Scottish peace initiative focused on the power of money

Judging US war crimes
by Kathy Kelly

Chelsea Manning reimprisoned

‘Double your climate targets’
by Greta Thunberg

Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg (16) who has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, delivered this speech to the European Commission on 21 February

Stop your school funding carbon criminals
by Gabriel Carlyle

Students, parents, teachers and staff can all help break the hold that fossil fuel companies have on our governments and economies

Israel is a terrorist state
by UN Human Rights Council

UN Commission finds Israeli forces 'killed and gravely injured civilians who were neither participating directly in hostilities nor posing an imminent threat to life'

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From the Blog

UK schools are funding climate change: the climate strikers could help change this
by Gabriel Carlyle | 13 Mar, 2019
Growth, Degrowth and Climate justice
by Benjamin | 6 Mar, 2019

Benjamin reports on Global Justice Now's recent one-day conference

The Fire Now book launch
by Marc Hudson | 11 Dec, 2018

Speakers at a London book launch describe some of the many challenges we face around race and racism and connections with other oppressions.

Remembrance - Pacifist Style
by Rebecca Elson-Watkins | 28 Nov, 2018

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Comment

Reasons to be cheerful, Part Two

Signs of the power of grassroots action is all around us, argues Milan Rai

Poynted remarks

Our columnist takes on the lack of abortion rights in Northern Ireland

Bruce Kent: As I please
Diary: 'I propose starting with study circles'
Obituary: Paul Flynn: 9 February 1935 – 17 February 2019

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Reviews

David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
Louise Toupin, Wages for Housework: A History of an International Feminist Movement, 1972–77
Eskil Engdal & Kjetil Sæter, Catching Thunder: The True Story of the World’s Longest Sea Chase
Mycelium Collective & Inky Mollusc, Worlds End

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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.
The posters are been exhibited at Hastings Arts Forum, St Leonards on Sea, East Sussex, 30 October — 11 November 2018.

Alice Wheeldon was a prophet
Te Puea
Francis Sheehy-Skeffington

Tools and Resources

How Win Win: A Guide to Nonviolent Direct Action CampaigningHow Win Win: A Guide to Nonviolent Direct Action Campaigning

George Lakey's must-read handbook for making social change. An instant classic, available from PN at a specially discounted price!

The World is My Country greeting cards
Tech resources and knowhow

Resources from the Weaving Our Own Web dayschool in January 2018.

1917: The Nonviolent Russian Revolution1917: The Nonviolent Russian Revolution

This new double pamphlet by Milan Rai from Peace News Press: 1917: The Nonviolent Russian Revolution and The Grassroots Working-Class Revolution that Lenin Crushed highlights the crucial role of mass nonviolent action in the Russian Revolution 100 years ago.

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