Join XR to demand the publication of the full, unredacted version of the National Security Assessment, a plan to address the existential risks it highlights and to demand a UK-wide briefing on the Climate and Nature risks. A weekend of discussion with some serious action on the streets leading to a banging finale on the […]
From Gandhi to Rosa Parks to Extinction Rebellion, the world needs nonviolent movements for social change, today more than ever. In a time of rising violent political ideologies, organisations campaigning for a better world are under attack. The Commonweal Trust works to put nonviolent tools and ideas in the hands of today’s activists, through our […]
Join us for a panel discuss on a future beyond military bases. Points for conversation will include repurposing land used by the military for public parkland (as was seen with Greenham Common). This event will include a speaker from Greenham Common and Pinelopi Gardika who brings expertise in the future of bases outside the UK […]
THURSDAY 29th OCTOBER SKIPTON GIRLS HIGH SCHOOL - 7.30pm This year's speaker is Rachel Julian, Professor of Peace Studies at Leeds Beckett University and since 2024 Chair of the Trustees of the Bradford Peace Museum in Saltaire. She is also a Trustee of the Commonweal Library at Bradford University where there is a growing Grassington and […]
On Friday 20 November, we will join students and young people from across Europe and beyond in striking, protesting, holding assemblies and rallies to say no to war and militarism. For nearly 3 years, our government has facilitated Israel’s genocide in Gaza. It has supported Trump’s war on Iran. It has fuelled the war in […]
50 years after the Lucas Plan, workers, activists, students & academics unite in Manchester, 21 Nov 2026, for socially useful production now 50 years ago, workers at the Lucas Aerospace arms company launched their pioneering Alternative Workers Plan. Faced with threats to their jobs, workers at Lucas Aerospace responded with a visionary, positive plan that […]