Author: Andy Morton

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Join CND’s Conference on the Middle East

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As diplomats meet in Vienna to discuss reviving the crucial Iran nuclear deal, the weekend’s Israeli cyber attack on an Iranian nuclear facility is an extremely concerning development.

A weapons of mass destruction-free zone in the Middle East is an idea whose time has come and would be a huge step towards a just, peaceful and stable future for the region.

And yet with the continued Israeli possession of a nuclear arsenal, the U.S. withdrawal under Donald Trump from the Iran nuclear deal and even the declaration of Mohammad bin Salman that Saudi Arabia could look to gain nuclear weapons under some future circumstances, it seems further away than ever.

This why National CND will be holding its ‘Working for Peace in the Middle East’ conference via Zoom on the afternoon of Saturday 22nd May.

We are especially delighted to be joined by Israeli and Iranian colleagues from the peace movement, as well as Andrew Feinstein, an expert on the global arms trade, Jill Evans, a former MEP and an expert on Palestine, Stop the War Coalition’s Lindsey German and CND’s Kate Hudson and Sara Medi-Jones.

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No More Nukes: Scrap Trident Emergency Rally

Watch CND’s emergency online rally to protest government plans to increase the number of nuclear warheads in its arsenal for the first time since the Cold War.

With guest speakers Jeremy Corbyn MP, Lowkey, Caroline Lucas MP, Kirsten Oswald MP, Victoria Brittain, the Archbishop of York, Stephen Cottrell, Lindsey German (Stop the War), Bruce Kent, Kevin Blowe (Netpol), Christine Blower, Paul Rogers, Andrew Feinstein, Baroness Jenny Jones, Kirsten Bays -(Campaign Against the Arms Trade), Nick Dearden (Global Justice), Baroness Smith of Newnham, Lesley Morrison (Medact). Rally hosted by CND General Secretary Kate Hudson.

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Threats of War: Britain’s New Global Role

The government has increased the UK’s stockpile of nuclear warheads, ramped up hostility to Russia, invested billions in new cyber and spacewar tech and stepped up the British military presence in the Asia Pacific, all as part of its vision of ‘Global Britain’.

Join leading activists, writers and academics in analysing this dangerous new programme of interventionism and discuss how the movement can best counter it. 

There will be sessions on Britain’s role in the Middle East; Biden and the conflict with China; Final frontiers: the arms trade, space war and AI; Racism and Islamophobia; War and climate change and more. 

Speakers include: Tariq Ali, Jeremy Corbyn, Lindsey German, Paul Rogers, Lowkey, Kate Hudson and more.

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Time to Scrap Trident – Emergency Online Rally

Join CND for an emergency online rally to  protest government plans to increase the number of nuclear warheads in its arsenal for the first time since the Cold War.

It is clear to us that we don’t need any more nuclear weapons. In fact, we want none!

We will be joined by speakers including Jeremy Corbyn MP, Lowkey, Caroline Lucas MP, Kirsten Oswald MP, Victoria Brittain and the Archbishop of York, Stephen Cottrell. Plus many more! Rally hosted by CND General Secretary Kate Hudson.

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