for lefties too stubborn to quit
As can be seen from the poster above, Iraklis Tsavdaridis, executive secretary of the World Peace Council will address a public meeting to be held in Dublin on Thursday 24th January at 7.30pm in the Ireland Institute. The theme is The Peace Movement versus the EU and NATO.
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A bit late, but I was just reading a review of Kate Hudson’s history of
CND by Bill Hetherington, the British peace historian.
He’s not a WPC fan:
“The Peace Pledge Union’s first leaflet against the bomb, barely two months after Hiroshima, is passed over in favour of a eulogy for the partisan British Peace Committee and World Peace Council
Moscow line”.
http://www.peacenews.info/issues/2466/2466104.html
It does seem to me a shame that many leftists have never even
heard of left-wing peace groups like War Resisters’ International or the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, or thoughtful pacifists like Gene Sharp or the late Barbara Deming.
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…or veteran Jesuit peace campaigner Daniel Berrigan.
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I’m sure many leftists would know Berrigan as a protester
against the Vietnam War, but his actual pacifism doesn’t
seem to well known.
It’s not widely known even among Irish left historians, that there was a pacifist organisation in Ireland, the “All Ireland Anti-war Crusade” from the 1930s to the 1950s. I think some of its
members went on to found the Irish branch of CND.
PANA has War Resisters’ International as one of its
links:
http://www.pana.ie/resource/links.html
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