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Sussex event on antinuclear movement, with Sasha Roseneil

As nuclear weapons rise up the international agenda, I will be talking at Sussex University about The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, the first academic study of the movement in Britain to be published this century, with Sasha Roseneil, the University’s Vice-Chancellor, author of Disarming Patriarchy: Feminism and Political Action at Greenham (Open University Press, 1995), and Common Women, Uncommon Practices: the Queer Feminisms of Greenham (Cassell/Bloomsbury, 2000).

The movement against nuclear weapons was the first postwar mass protest movement in Britain and the discussion will include the roles of social movements and the intersections between them as well as the current politics of nuclear weapons. In addition to their academic research, both speakers were participants in the 1980s peace movement, Sasha in the Greenham Common women’s peace camp and I in European Nuclear Disarmament and CND.

LSE event on my antinuclear movement book, 22 January

In conversation with MARY KALDOR and LUKE COOPER, Alumni Theatre, CKK Building, 6-7.30 pm.

Full details and registration HERE (even if you can’t make it, registering will ensure you get a link to the audio recording afterwards).

The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament – book events

I now have a series of events lined up for The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament over the next 3 months:

LONDON Tuesday 12 November 7 pm, Housmans Bookshop, 6 Caledonian Rd – in conversation with KATE HUDSON, until recently the general secretary of CND.

DEVON Wednesday 20 November 5 pm, The Old Picture House, Seaton – in conversation with PAUL ARNOTT.

BRADFORD Thursday 28 November 2 pm, Peace Studies, Richmond/D4 – JSB Lecture Theatre – LECTURE, ‘Responding to the Nuclear Threat After Ukraine: Lessons from the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament’.

LONDON Wednesday 22 January 6pm Cheng Kin Ku Building, Alumni Theatre, 54 Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London WC2A 2HD – in discussion with Dr LUKE COOPER, Chair, Another Europe is Possible, and Professor MARY KALDOR, co-founder of END.

BRIGHTON Wednesday 12 February, Sussex University Centre for Global Insecurities, time and venue to be confirmed – in conversation with Professor SASHA ROSENEIL, former Greenham activist and author of Disarming Patriarchy.

Britain’s complicity in Israel’s genocide

MY LETTER in today’s Guardian.

“In Defence of the Concept of Genocide”: my Amsterdam lecture

This month is the 80th anniversary of Raphael Lemkin’s introduction fo the concept of genocide in Axis Rule in Occupied Europe. On 17 October, I gave the annual Holocaust and Genocide Studies Lecture for NIOD in Amsterdam. Criticising those who would abandon Lemkin’s concept, I looked at its relevance today in the light of Gaza. You can watch it or read the text HERE.

With my CND book at Peter Kennard’s exhibition of political art

Peter’s ‘Broken Missile’ is the frontispiece to my book.

Introductory offer on CND book

Copies of my new book, The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, have arrived at the publishers and I’m waiting for them to reach me. Meanwhile, Agenda Publishing have announced 30 per cent off for paperbacks ordered via their website (in the UK and Europe only, I’m afraid). Use the code EM30 at the checkout.

London launch for my new book, ‘The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament’

BOOK DISCUSSION: ‘The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament’ – Martin Shaw in conversation with Kate Hudson – Housmans Bookshop, 12 November
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“Emotion” and “analytical precision” – unpacking the New Left Review genocide controversy

The latest on my Substack.

New interview on Gaza and genocide

I’ve done a lengthy interview with Thomas Karat in which I explain my views on Palestine and Israel. I expand on the question I put to Israeli historian Benny Morris in the Mehdi Hasan programme.