Book review: Saving the World from Nuclear War: The June 12, 1982 Disarmament Rally and Beyond by Vincent J. Intondiby Ian SinclairPeace NewsOctober-November 2023 Concise, accessible and well-referenced, this is a wonderful book about a protest I wasn’t previously aware of. Vincent J. Intondi, Professor of History at Montgomery College, sets the scene: surrounded by […]
Combatting the zombie myths about nonviolent struggleby Ian SinclairMorning Star28 November 2023 There is widespread ignorance on the Left about what is called civil resistance (AKA nonviolent struggle). Let’s start with first principles. In her essential 2021 book Civil Resistance: What Everyone Needs To Know, Harvard University’s Professor Erica Chenoweth defines civil resistance as “a […]
Britain’s nuclear terrorism: interview with Milan Raiby Ian SinclairMorning Star8 November 2023 The Editor of Peace News newspaper and author of the 1994 book Tactical Trident: The Rifkind Doctrine and the Third World, peace activist Milan Rai has recently written several articles about the UK’s nuclear arsenal. Ian Sinclair asked Rai to respond to the […]
Reinforcing the imperium: Joseph Gerson on the US nuclear arsenalby Ian SinclairMorning Star7 November 2023 In the first of two interviews on the topic, Ian Sinclair speaks to Joseph Gerson, President of the Campaign for Peace, Disarmament and Common Security, about his seminal 2007 book Empire and the Bomb: How the U.S. Uses Nuclear Weapons […]
Never forget: grassroots protest is a crucial driver in securing positive changeby Ian SinclairMorning Star16 October 2023 The mainstream political culture – from the media to politicians to academia – often has a hard time recognising the decisive role of grassroots activism and protest in securing political change. For example, last month the Guardian reported […]
A guide to the UK’s new grassroots climate groupsby Ian SinclairMorning Star5 September 2023 Perhaps it’s because of the pandemic, but Extinction Rebellion’s public opinion-shifting occupations of central London in 2018 and 2019 now feel a very long time ago. Since then successive Tory governments, ignoring increasingly loud warnings from scientists and the intensification of […]
Book review: Nomad Century: How To Survive The Climate Upheaval by Gaia Vinceby Ian SinclairPeace NewsAugust-September 2023 Due to the impacts of global warming ‘human movement on a scale never before seen will dominate this century and remake our world.’ This is the central proposition of this important popular science book. Gaia Vince, an honorary […]
Beware the anti-democratic liberal centreby Ian SinclairMorning Star24 July 2023 If you have read the seemingly endless work of US dissident Noam Chomsky you’ll know he regularly cites twentieth century US intellectuals to highlight the elitist, anti-democratic thinking of the so-called liberal centre. The public are “ignorant and meddlesome outsiders” who should be “spectators, not […]
Book review: Saving The People’s Forest: Open spaces, enclosure and popular protest in mid-Victorian London by Mark Gormanby Ian SinclairPeace NewsJune-July 2023 Following the January 2023 mass trespass on Dartmoor, the campaign to stop the felling of trees in Sheffield and the government U-turn on the privatisation of the forests in 2011, Saving The People’s […]
More Power Than We Know: Public opinion and government pandemic policyby Ian SinclairMorning Star27 April 2023 The 100,000s of WhatsApp messages sent by government ministers during the pandemic and leaked to the Daily Telegraph led to days of news coverage last month. However, other than the being published in the Tory-supporting broadsheet, one important part […]
