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The Easter marches to Aldermaston – 65 years ago
In the early days of the CND, thousands took part in the London to Aldermaston 52-mile, four-day march against the bomb. KATE HUDSON tells the story
NICK WRIGHT considers how the isolation of Israel and a new film on the controversial Italian communist leader are creating new reference points for Italy’s left
CARLOS MARTINEZ says Cuba’s achievements in the face of a criminal blockade are startling, but the island’s future if the United States succeeds in crushing it looks bleak
AMNON BROWNFIELD STEIN reports that far-right MPs who mobbed the event organised by Hadash may have helped raise awareness of the brutality of the Israeli right
Born on this day in 1931, the heroic revolutionary faces a dangerous new wave of White House aggression. We must treat his birthday as a rallying cry to resist the illegal siege of Cuba, writes ROGER McKENZIE
RAMZY BAROUD decries the rats of Gaza, the rodent and human type. Both abound as profiteering from tragedy reaches obscene levels
SIXTY-FIVE years ago today, thousands of marchers arrived at the Atomic Weapons Establishment in Aldermaston, Berkshire, protesting against the British nuclear bomb being built there.
These marchers were in at the start of a mass movement, the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, which was to transform the very nature of protest and shape social movements for decades to come.
The world into which CND emerged was changing rapidly. The colonial empires were being dismantled as national liberation movements achieved the independence of their countries. European colonial power in Asia was ending.
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