Scotland Loves Trident?
By Jamie Maxwell As George Eaton points outs in the New Statesman this morning, the opposition of the Scottish public to nuclear weapons “has long been regarded as one of Continue reading
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The Psychopathy of War
The day after it was revealed how MI6 and the CIA were told through secret channels by Saddam Hussein’s foreign minister and his head of intelligence that Iraq had no Continue reading
On the Night Shift: From Lynndie England to Copper Green
This was first published in Variant ten years ago, but since Ali Ismail Abbas has again come back to our screens – again as a figure of inspiration and a Continue reading
WMD Found
“With devolution you get to ban air-rifles, with independence you can cancel Trident” …
The Hibakusha: the Ethical Case for Independence
By Douglas Stuart Wilson There are almost as many reasons for the independence of Scotland as people in favour of the idea. Over the last few months, James Kelman, Alasdair Continue reading
Anti-Trident weekend planned for 13-15th April
by David Mackenzie, Scrap Trident Coalition There are three main arguments against Trident. One is the growing acceptance among senior ex-military types that it has no strategic relevance to Britain’s Continue reading
Be Part of History
What would you spend £100 billion on?
Radical Indy Conference 03: The Referendum and Trident
Isobel Lindsay of CND is speaking at the Radical Independence Conference workshop - “An ethical foreign policy: scrap Trident, no to NATO, troops out” – on Sat 24th Nov. The Continue reading
Coulport, Devo Max and Imperial Britain
Today at Coulport, we have the biggest arsenal of nuclear missiles in Europe. Why? Because we are British. We are home to the world’s most powerful machine for the mass killing of human beings, Trident. Why? Because we are British.
Trident – Nowhere to Go
An independent Scotland means the end of Trident in the UK.
Cop Outs and Cuts
Stopping Trident is one cut the British state is not prepared to make. We will forever cling blindly to our nuclear juju. Our sacrosanct national fetish will remain eternally inviolable. However, to make this act of faith, we must first stifle our own sense of human sympathy or compassion. Only when we have killed the humanity in ourselves, can we then countenance the mass killing of other human beings. Thus, in essence, we are our first nuclear victims.
Gosh, I Got It Wrong……..
By Brian Quail In the sort of words never to be uttered by Margaret Thatcher or her successor Tony Blair, let me say out loud and clear: Sometimes I get Continue reading
Song and Dance
As Liberal apologists quickly ditched their non-existent ‘anti-Trident commitment’ in the scramble for office, this emssage from Trident Ploughshares, Scottish CND, CND UK and the Scottish WILPF… KICK UP A Continue reading
Scottish Green Party on the Indefensible
Peter McColl and Elaine Morrison write: The Liberal Democrats are a third party. This means that they choose their policies not on principle, but because they distinguish liberal democrats from Continue reading
The Myth of the Liberal’s Defense Policy
It is fatally flawed because he is trying to placate the deep-seated nuclearism of the British nationalist parties – that is, all the Unionist parties – while aspiring to don the mantle of progressive anti-nuclear campaigner at the same time. And it doesn’t work…
Cut Trident Not Jobs
An opinion poll by ICM for Scottish CND at the end of January 2007 found that 73 % of Scots are opposed to spending billions on replacing Trident. We believe Continue reading
Time Up for Trident & the Union
‘Nuclear weapons pervade our thinking. Control our behaviour. Administer our societies. Inform our dreams. They bury themselves like meathooks deep in the base of our brains…’ the peace activist Brian Continue reading
