with Katy Clark MSP // Margaret Kimberley, Black Alliance for Peace USA // Sam Mason, Labour CND // Stuart Parkinson, Scientists for Global Responsibility // Tom Unterrainer CND
SAVE THE DATE and watch out for more details
Sunday 3 April, 12 noon to 14.30
Labour CND is circulating a motion for ward and constituency parties in support of the AUKUS emergency motion passed by Labour conference. Download it here and let us know if your ward or CLP passes it . See Labour Outlook explainer articles, AUKUS: Another step on the road to perdition by Labour CND Co-Chair Carol Turner and A New Nuclear Arms Race & Cold War Will Not Bring Security by Jeremy Corbyn
Labour CND Vice President Richard Burgon gave a powerful summary of priorities after Labour Party conference. If you missed Arise’s live webinar, you can catch it here
Register now for Jeremy Corbyn’s Project for Peace and Justice which launches 17 January with a start line up. The webinar includes Jeremy Corbyn will be joined by Zarah Sultana MP, Ronnie Kasrils, a South African Minister under Nelson Mandela, Yanis Varoufakis, Former Greek Finance Minister, climate campaigner Scarlett Westbrook, Unite’s Len McCluskey, and Baroness Christine Blower, former teachers leader.
‘You don’t have to take what you’re given. You don’t have to live without power and without hope. Things can, and they will change,’ says Corbyn. Visit the P&J website and read the mission statement of a project that aims to bring people together for social and economic justice, peace, and human rights, in Britain and across the world.
Writing in the Morning Star on 17 December, Socialist Campaign Group Secretary Richard Burgon called for ‘our whole movement’ to join Labour CND’s online lobby to persuade Labour MPs to oppose Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s £16 billion military spending increase. Burgon said: ‘Labour CND has launched a campaign to make the case for real security, tackling the climate crisis, global poverty and the Covid-19 pandemic — not a Tory military spending spree. It is one our whole movement should back.’
Read Burgon’s article here
Lobby your MP here
Africa’s contribution to the field of nuclear non-proliferation has long been ignored, argues Olamide Samuel. In an article for Aljazeera, the arms control specialist and the Coordinator of SCRAP Weapons, explains why it’s time to recognise and embrace Africa’s role.
Labour CND stands in solidarity with Jeremy Corbyn, a lifelong anti-racist, peace and anti-war campaigner, as his record of fighting oppression and discrimination attests.
We reaffirm our commitment to opppose anti-semitism and all forms of racism. We believe the action taken against Jeremy undermines the unity of the Labour Party.
Labour CND opposes the suspension of Jeremy Corbyn and pledges to campaign for his reinstatement.
Labour CND and Arise, A Festival of Labour’s Left Ideas jointly organised a Foreign Policy Q&A webinar with Grassroots Voice candidates for Labour’s National Executive Committee. Ann Henderson reviewed Scottish Labour’s position on Trident.
Visit Labour CND’s YouTube channel to hear what all #GV6 candidates had to say on Froeign Policy – Gemma Bolton, Yasmine Dar, Nadia Jama, Laura Pidcock, and Mish Rahman
Register here for #GrassrootsVoice #GV6 Rally with Jeremy Corbyn and others on 15 October
