Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation

The Spokesman Journal

The Spokesman is the journal of the Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation. It features independent journalism on peace and nuclear disarmament, human rights and civil liberties, and contemporary politics. Contributors include Robert Fisk, Noam Chomsky, Naomi Klein, John Le Carre, Trevor Griffiths and Kurt Vonnegut to name a small selection.

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One Belt, One Road

 The Spokesman 130

Edited by Tony Simpson

Editorial - Tony Simpson
One Belt, One Road timeline - Xinhua News Agency
US policy towards challengers - Johan Galtung
China and Russell - Tony Simpson
China’s Road to Freedom - Bertrand Russell
Don't mention the children - Michael Rosen
Internationalist at Work - Jeremy Corbyn
West Papua: Still no choice - Carmel Budiardjo
Telling, not Selling - Paola Totaro
Shakespeare and Tolstoy on peace and war - John Gittings
Britain’s 1914-18 War Resisters - Cyril Pearce
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Substandard – Eyewitness reports Trident

 The Spokesman 129

Edited by Tony Simpson

Out of its Depth - Cdr Robert Green
Trident at Sea - AB William McNeilly
Trident in Question - Alex Salmon MP et al
Substandard - John Ainslie
Uncommon Cause - General Lee Butler interviewed by Robert Kazel
Educate, Agitate, Organise! - Frances O’Grady
Better Idea - Tony Simpson
Discovery - Tom Unterrainer
In Memoriam: Michael Barratt Brown
Solidarity from Below - Michael Barratt Brown
Northern College - Malcolm Ball
A Personal Tribute - Victoria Bawtree
Purposeful Life - Stan Newens
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Think Globally, Act Locally

 The Spokesman 128

Edited by Tony Simpson

Europe’s Civil War – Richard Sakwa
Common Home – Ken Coates
Russia’s Poetry – Tony Simpson
From a mob to a movement – Ken Coates
Red Cross Alert! – Peter Maurer
Conversion of the Heart – David Krieger
Reparations Unpaid – Alexis Tsipras
Our Breath of Life – Loula Vlahoutsikou Giannakopoulou
Gifts from Greece? – Frances O’Grady
Comedians – Trevor Griffiths
‘Something as ugly as this joke’ – Stanton B Garner Jr
Save our NHS – Benedict Cooper, Zenn Athar & Ursula Holdsworth
I Love This Body – Caroline Salzedo
Conscientious Objection – Jo Vellacott
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Trident Undone

 The Spokesman 127

Edited by Tony Simpson

Paradigm Shift – Commander Robert Green RN (retired)
The Politics of Trident – Jeremy Corbyn MP & Julian Lewis MP
‘Mingled Asset Ownership’ – Shannon N. Kile & Hans M. Kristensen
Why I rejected nuclear deterrence – Robert Green
Einstein and Russell
Remember Guantánamo – Andy Worthington
Syriza and Europe – Alexis Tsipras, interviewed by Haris Golemis
The Curse of Minerva – Lord Byron
Realising Europe’s recovery proposals – Stuart Holland
Looking ahead – Alastair Crooke
Pilgrimage – John Kinsella
The 1970s – Tom Unterrainer
Yuri Larin’s Space
Reunion with Yura – Anna Larina
Secular Contemporary Hermit Song – John Kinsella
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Even unto Gaza

 The Spokesman 126

Edited by Tony Simpson

Richard Falk - Preventing the crime of indifference
Eran Efrati - The killing of Salem Khalil Shammaly
Mohammed Omer - What happened in Khuza’a
Ahdaf Soueif - The world on notice
Russell Tribunal on Palestine - Gaza under attack: Summary of findings
John Gittings - Who started the First World War?
Bertrand Russell - A Pacifist at War
John Daniels - Africa Genocide
Tony Simpson - NATO – NO, TA!
Saskia J Stuiveling & Ellen M A van Schoten - NATO’s modest steps
David Vine - Ice Cream
Mike Cooley - Insulting Machines
Ray Perkins, Jr - Chrome Dome
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Rough Violence

 The Spokesman 125

Edited by Tony Simpson

Alastair Crooke -
Islamic State
Vladimir Putin
How I see it
Ray McGovern - China, Russia and Ukraine
Diana Johnstone – Iron Curtain Reprise
Gabriel Kolko – NATO: Expanding or Exploding?
Ben Thompson – His Master’s Voice
Hugo Radice – Warwick University Ltd
Ron Rose – How the world works
Lucy Gill & Chris Carter – Warwick University Ltd 40 years on
Michael Barratt Brown – Education and Democracy
Ian Fairlie - UK Energy Policy?
Accounting for Orgreave
Trevor Griffiths - Thatcher’s Children
Nick Matthews - Co-operation Halted?
Khatchatur I Pilikian - Genocide
Nicole Morris, Bernard Dréano, Abi Rhodes - Peace Event Sarajevo
Dave Webb - The sun rose in the west
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Problems of NATO

 The Spokesman 124

Edited by Tony Simpson

Zhores & Roy Medvedev -
Ukraine and Crimea
Russ Bellant & Paul H Rosenberg
Secret Ukraine
Victoria Nuland & Geoffrey Pyatt - Biden's Willing
John Pilger – Unconquerable Soul
Catherine Ashton & Urmas Paet – Whose snipers in Kiev?
Jeremy Corbyn MP – Problems of NATO
Moazzam Begg – Why they took my passport
Tony Benn – I am no historian
Alexis Tsipras MP – Whither Greece?
Bruce Kent – War against War!
Ian Fairlie - UK Energy Policy?
Tony Simpson - END revisited
Keith Howden - Let this Frame Stand
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John Gittings – World War One Watch

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Tata Madiba

 The Spokesman 123

Edited by Tony Simpson

Beverley Naidoo -
In search of Neil Aggett
Nelson Mandela -
The Long Walk
Taha Muhammad ’Ali -
Never in his Life
Marwan Barghouthi – Unconquerable Soul
Abdullah Öcalan – A comrade in Mandela
Leonard Weiss – The South Atlantic Flash
Michael Barratt Brown – Kuapa Kokoo
Caroline Lucas MP – The cracks in fracking
Gayle Kinkead – Refusing to pay for war
Panos Trigazis – Europe Rebuilt?
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Che Qianzi – Chinese Pinyin
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Ayse Berktay – Speaking Freely

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The Middle East free of WMD?

 The Spokesman 122

Edited by Tony Simpson

Conflicts Forum - Syria: A point of change?
Sergei Lavrov - Russia's view
Tony Simpson - From chemical to nuclear
Chelsea Manning - Remember your humanity
K. J. Noh - Oppose this base!
Alex Farquharson and Ralph E. Lapp - Aquatopians
Bertrand Russell and Ralph Miliband - Anecdotage
Abi Rhodes - Ayse Berktay
Trevor Griffiths - Umkhonto
Tony Simpson - Crossing Derry
Martin McGuinness MLA - Peace needs partnership
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Unruly Dog

 The Spokesman 121

Edited by Tony Simpson

Edward Snowden interviewed by Glenn Greenwald - Against the Public Interest
William Hague MP et al - Don't be vague
Sylvie Guillaume MEP and Jan Philipp Albrecht MEP - Prism and GCHQ
Tony Simpson - 'A dog in this fight'
Lawrence Ferlinghetti - 'Dog'
Bruce Gagnon - The Kill Chain
E P Thompson - Prayer for the Year's Turning
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The Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation Fifty Years On
Bertrand Russell - Must hate and death return?
Bertrand Russell - Appeal to the American Conscience
Ken Coates - Bertrand Russell and Industrial Democracy
Peggy Duff - CND and Greece
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Tony Simpson - Peace in our way
Vicki Sentas - Peace in Kurdistan?
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On Palestine and Prisoners

 The Spokesman 120

Edited by Tony Simpson

Mahmoud Darwish - Poem
Marwan Barghouti - This day shall come
Stéphane Hessel - Time for justice
Angela Davis - More to come
Trevor Griffiths - Sons and Lovers A ‘version’
Abdullah Öcalan - A new beginning
Ayse Berktay - I demand my acquittal
Daniel Ellsberg - Hearing Bradley Manning
Bradley Manning - Why I blew the whistle
Tony Simpson - Nottingham Contemporary
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The Kurdish Question in Turkey

 The Spokesman 119

Edited by Tony Simpson

Tony Simpson - Coalition Politics
John Gittings - The Narrative of Peace
Ban Ki-moon - Opportunities Lost
Sergio Duarte - Assembly Line for Disarmament
Trevor Griffiths - March Time
Ruth Lister - Social Security
Dexter Whitfield - Care and Health
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Dossier - Hiroshima
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The Narrative of Peace

 The Spokesman 118

Edited by Tony Simpson

Tony Simpson - Coalition Politics
John Gittings - The Narrative of Peace
Ban Ki-moon - Opportunities Lost
Sergio Duarte - Assembly Line for Disarmament
Trevor Griffiths - March Time
Ruth Lister - Social Security
Dexter Whitfield - Care and Health
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Dossier - Hiroshima
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Keep Space for Peace

 The Spokesman 117

Edited by Tony Simpson

Tony Simpson - Editorial
Stephen F Cohen
Cold War Chill
Bruce Gagnon - Is Missile Defence Working?

Esther Koohan Paik - Jeju meets Hawaii
Abi Rhodes - Defence against whose Missiles?
Betrand Russell - Cuban Missile Crisis – 50 years on
Gabriel Kolko - Turbulence Ahead
Zhores Medvedev - Feeding the Cities
Juheina Khaldieh reviews Jehan Helou - Palestinian Women
Daniel Jakopovich - Yugoslavia’s Self-Management
Mike Harding - Cissy Worswick Dances
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Resist Much, Obey Little

 The Spokesman 116

Edited by Tony Simpson

Tony Simpson - Editorial
Ken Coates – Insistent Lad
Ken Coates – Poverty and the IWC
Ken Coates interviewed by George Lambie – A Political Life
Michael Barratt Brown
The Institute for Workers’ Control
Bill Silburn – St Ann’s
Regan Scott – About Ken
John Daniels – Lifelong Comrade
Tony Benn interviewed by Tony Simpson – History Will Be Kind
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Syria and Iran

 The Spokesman 115

Edited by Tony Simpson

Tony Simpson
Editorial: Syria and Iran
Aisling Byrne
Regime change in Syria?
Brian Jones
Iran - lessons unlearnt
Ayse Berktay - Prison Notes
Trevor Griffiths
Habaccuc Dreams
Gabriel Kolko - Germany goes for broke
Stuart Holland - Europe needs growth
Lord Byron - Framing ideas
Christopher Gifford - Nuclear Explosions
Michael Barratt Brown - Ill fares the land
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From Hiroshima to Fukushima

 The Spokesman 114

Edited by Tony Simpson

Tony Simpson - Editorial: From Hiroshima to Fukushima
Terumi Tanaka - Hibakusha and Fukushima
Hachiro Sato - Fukushima’s Quagmire
Helen Caldicott - Fukushima’s Radioactive Elements
Seiji Takato - Black Rain
Hiroshi Taka - A world without nuclear weapons
World Conference Against A & H Bombs - Declaration
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Naomi Klein - Occupy!
Noam Chomsky - Academic Freedom?
John Dugard - Apartheid in South Africa and Palestine?
Alastair Crooke - The ‘great game’ in Syria
Brian Jones - Iraq's Report X
Stephanie Sampson - Building Bridges
Raymond Williams - The Country and the City
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NATO? No Thanks!

 The Spokesman 113

Edited by Tony Simpson

Tony Simpson - Editorial: NATO? - No thanks!
Peter Dale Scott - The Libyan War
Rick Rozoff - NATO's War on Libya
Global Network - Global Strike
Ikeda Some - translated by James Kirkup
Michio Nakano - Umeboshi
Zhores Medvedev - Fukushima
Ambassador Glyn Davies - Prime Candidate
Zhores Medvedev - Dangerous Occupation
Carmel Budiardjo - The Land of Papua
Stuart Holland - New Deal for Europe
Panos Trigazis, Bruce Kent & Colin Archer - Michalis Peristerakis
Stan Newens - Ocalan’s Prison Writings
John Daniels - Public Health
Mike Pentelow & Peter Arkell - Feargus O’Connor
Egyptian Organization for Human Rights - Appeal from Egypt
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What’s happening at Fukushima?

 The Spokesman 112

Edited by Tony Simpson

Tony Simpson - Editorial: What’s happening at Fukushima?
Masakazu Yasui - Letter from Japan
Katsunobu Sakurai - Appeal from Minamisome
Johan Galtung - Libya
Mustafa Barghouti - Lessons from Egypt
Alexis Lykiard - Setting Out
Merav Amir & Dalit Baum - Corporate Complicity
Michael Barratt Brown & David Browning - Paying for Higher Education
Zhores Medvedev - Dangerous Occupation
Michael Moore - America is not broke
Raoul Marc Jennar - What’s left?
Barry Baldwin - Ancient Socialism
Ian Watson - God, King, and Dennis Law
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Complicity Against Palestine

 The Spokesman 111

Edited by Tony Simpson

Tony Simpson - Editorial: Complicity Against Palestine
Dalit Baum - Who profits?
The Russell Tribunal on Palestine
Alice Walker - A Circle
US Embassy, London - Diego Garcia
Noam Chomsky interviewed by Amy Goodman - Exposing Western Leadership
Paul Rogers - America's shiver
Zhores Medvedev - Dangerous occupation
Jeremy Corbyn MP - Love and learning
Diane Johnstone - NATO anf US Grand Strategy
Lynne Jones - Regime change or disarming WMD
Michael Barratt Brown - Basil Davidson
Alexis Lykiard - Haiku

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What Price Austerity?

 The Spokesman 110

Edited by Tony Simpson

Tony Simpson - Editorial: What Price Austerity?
Mark Serwotka - Not a single job has to be lost
PCS - There is an alternative
Stuart Holland - Demythologising 'Old Labour'
Brian Jones - Failing Intelligence
Hans von Sponeck - Scared of the facts
Caroline Lucas MP - Afghanistan - Nail the Myth
Bertrand Russell - Prevent the crime of silence
Richard Falk and David Krieger - The Middle East
Rep. Dennis Kucinich - What we have to do
Carmel Budiardjo - West Papua's Plight
Jimmy Reid - We're not rats
Michael Barratt Brown - Is there not an alternative?
Stuart Holland - Act and Survive

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Reinventing Socialism

 The Spokesman 109

Edited by Ken Coates

Ken Coates - Editorial: Reinventing Socialism
Sidney Webb - Clause IV
Clement Atlee - 'We cannot administer capitalism'
Ken Coates - Blair's Initiative
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Ken Coates a Tribute
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Noam Chomsky - The Radical Intellectual
Henning Mankell - 'Maybe we should talk about my books'
Tony Simpson - What the Spooks Want
David Kelly - A Fresh Inquiry?
Bertrand Russell - Why I am a Guildsman
Nurit Peled Elhanan - Carnage in Gaza

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A Special Relationship ... with Truth?

 The Spokesman 108

Edited by Ken Coates

Ken Coates - Special Relationship?
Sir Edmund Thomas QC - Lord Goldsmith and Iraq
Bertolt Brecht - Parade of the Old New
Bob Marshall-Andrews MP -
Another Agenda
Bob Dixon - Demockracy
Scott Ritter - Britain Can't Handle the Truth
Bertrand Russell - Writing Principia
Kurt Vonnegut - Kurt is up in Heaven now
Farewell Michael Foot
Lord Judge, Lord Neuberger - Judgment
Clive Stafford Smith - Spooks sold down the river
Alexis Lykiard - The Chilcot Enquiry
Nurit Peled Elhanan - Carnage in Gaza

Dossier - Russell Tribunal on Palestine
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Regime Changers Anonymous

 The Spokesman 107

Edited by Ken Coates

Ken Coates - Regime Changers Anonymous
Tony Simpson - Fixing the Intelligence?
Lord Goldsmith - Law and War
Lord Steyn -
The legality of the invasion of Iraq
David Halpin - Who killed David Kelly?
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Alexis Lykiard - Haiku
John Arden - Gallows
Noam Chomsky - The US and Israel
John Berger - Al Rabweh
Mahmoud Darwish - The Dice Player

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Responsibility to Protest

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