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Nuclear war, ‘exterminism’ and ‘genocide’

I reflected from my history of the campaign against nuclear weapons on how its campaigning and thinking was largely separated from concerns about “genocide”, even in EP Thompson’s idea of “exterminism”. My latest.

David Lammy’s token move is no answer to genocide – it’s a form of denial

‘You do not respond to genocide with gestures; you do not continue to treat a state that is suspected of committing genocide as an ally; and cancelling a number of export licences does not cancel Britain’s complicity’ – my take in Byline Times

Antinuclear movement book: copies by mid-October

I’ve now signed off the proofs of my book on the antinuclear movement in Britain, which is now off to the printers. The cover now has a CND symbol added! Copies should be available in mid-October – do pre-order now.

New interview on the history and meaning of genocide

Genocide: Its History & Meaning

Video clip of my question to Benny Morris in Mehdi Hasan’s Head to Head

'The only way we can understand what Israel is doing in an overall sense is not a series of war crimes. It is one big crime and that the name for that is genocide.' My question to Israeli historian Benny Morris – which he didn't answer – in @mehdirhasan's new @AJHeadtoHead. https://t.co/AI44QGolIY

— Martin Shaw (@martinshawx) August 5, 2024

My substack launched with reflections on the silences of the UK election

In future, I will be using the substack, History/theory/politics, to publish longer commentaries, with this blog remaining as a record of activity and an archive of publications. So here is the first piece, on the 8th anniversary of the Brexit referendum: A Tale of Two Independence Days, 23 June 2016 and 4 July 2024.

‘The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament: A Short History’ out later this year

I’m excited to be able to announce that my new book ‘The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament: A Short History’, is slated for publication on 14 November.

The book covers the campaign in the broadest sense – from the Direct Action Committee that existed before CND was set up in 1958 to the Committee of 100 and the tumultuous movement of the 1980s, including European Nuclear Disarmament and the Greenham Common women’s peace camp. It discusses the campaign’s role in the end of the Cold War and after, as well as its linkages to antiwar movements from Vietnam to Gaza, as well as other social and political movements.

Highly topical, as the new age of nuclear politics raises the question of how we respond. Further details and ordering information HERE.

My review of Luttwak & Shamir’s book on the Israel Defence Forces

Published just before 7 October, it can now be read in the light of Israel’s destruction of Gaza. For the new Berlin Review, in English and with a German translation.

blnreview.de/ausgaben/04-2024/martin-shaw-israels-militaerdoktrin-luttwak-shamir-idf

The International Court of Justice on Gaza: ‘Good, but Not Good Enough’

My new piece for Byline Times.

Inescapably Genocidal: my article opens new open-access Journal of Genocide Research forum on Gaza

Full article: ‘Inescapably Genocidal’
— Read on www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14623528.2023.2300555