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 While NATO warmongers were busily expanding the alliance’s reach into ever-growing areas, from cyber-security to gas supplies, over 40,000 people joined the international anti-NATO demonstration in Lisbon on 20th November. Hundreds also attended the No to NATO counter-summit, co-organised by CND. Disappointingly, despite several European states which host US nuclear weapons calling for their withdrawal, NATO chose to keep these dangerous Cold War weapons in those countries against the will of their people and governments.
With the NATO summit agreeing to years' more fighting in Afghanistan the anti-war movement is more essential than ever. Up to 10,000 joined the London demo called by CND, Stop the War Coalition and British Muslim Initiative with the clear message: Afghanistan – time to go. |
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Trident decision delayed - demand a review |
 The government has announced that Britain’s nuclear stockpile is being cut and the decision on replacing Trident will be delayed until 2016 – after the next general election.
At a time when the National Security Strategy has downgraded the threat of nuclear attack on Britain to ‘low-likelihood’, and the majority of the population opposes wasteful spending on nuclear weapons, it is vital that there is a full review of Trident, including the possibility of not replacing it at all.
We must win the argument that Trident is a costly and unnecessary weapon – we need to scrap Trident not replace it.
Write to your MP to back our call for a full review of Britain’s nuclear weapons.
Ask them to sign EDM 909 Trident Replacement.
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Trident will cause defence job losses: new CND report |
 'Trident, jobs and the UK economy' launched at TUC
A new report shows that replacing the Trident nuclear weapons system will cause an overall reduction in defence employment. Many more labour-intensive conventional defence activities will have to be scrapped to pay for the system designed for the Cold War.
The report also shows that with relatively small investment the skills used at BAe Systems' shipyard in Barrow could be diversified into areas such as engineering for wave and tidal energy, growing markets that could provide greater job security than the shipyard's current reliance on Ministry of Defence contracts.
You can read the report here and the four page summary here.
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Wikileaks and NATO nukes
Whatever else Wikileaks may be revealing, there is nothing new about
the info they are providing on NATO's nuclear weapons in Europe.
Indeed it is qui ...
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Ask your MP to sign EDM 909 Trident Replacement.
