What will eliminating nuclear weapons mean for the domestic politics of nuclear weapon states? How can the nuclear weapons ban treaty be advanced and in what ways can strengthening democracy help achieve nuclear abolition? Who, or what, is preventing us from binning the bomb? Tim Street’s new book explores what political conditions must be established and what obstacles overcome for […]

Join CND for our online fringe meeting as part of TUC 2021. During this ongoing massive public health crisis the government has decided to increase its nuclear arsenal by over 40% and make a big increase in military expenditure, but it refuses to pay nurses properly. How can it justify this shocking misallocation of public funds – on weapons of […]

Join CND and speakers including Rokhsana Fiaz, Mayor of Newham for an online rally in opposition to the DSEI Arms Fair 2021. Defence companies, including those who manufacture nuclear weapons, are exhibiting at the Excel Centre in East London. CND is part of a coalition campaigning to stop the arms fair, and stop the global trade in weapons of mass […]

The announcement of AUKUS, the military partnership between the UK, the US and Australia, is a dangerous escalation in the West’s ongoing confrontation with China. Time to stand up and oppose the government’s reckless and illegal foreign policy: read CND General Secretary Kate Hudson’s blog on the deal Spreading nuclear technology is at the heart of the deal: the US […]

Organised by the Peace History Conference group, with Greater Manchester & District CND and the Working Class Movement Library, this year’s Peace History Conference will consider examples of state spying on peace campaigns and explore the lessons of this history for today’s activists. The programme is still being developed but current speakers include: • The journalist Rob Evans, author of Undercover, who will discuss the […]