everyday militarism

A soldier watches as a small child sits at the controls of a machine gun.

Child safety fears over Armed Forces Day as kids invited to handle weapons

Concerned parents have raised the alarm over “family” events for Armed Forces Day tomorrow,

Welsh resistance to militarism on the rise as new network launched

A new campaigning network is preparing to map militarism in Wales and bring people together to challenge it.

PPU members and NEU delegates at the NEU conference

Pacifists meet teachers' union members as military spending trumps funding for schools

The Peace Pledge Union has backed teachers who are challenging a rise in military spending while education is desperately underfunded.

Hunt accused of twisted priorities with spiralling ‘defence’ budget

The Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has been accused of wasting billions on a sky-high ‘defence’ budget, while failing to adequately address the threats posed by climate change and the cost-of-living crisis.

Government's Defence Review only exacerbates the threats we face

Campaigners have condemned the government’s Integrated Review Refresh 2023, calling it a “wasted opportunity to address the security threats we face.”

One year on from the invasion, Ukrainian and British pacifists call for urgent peace talks

One year on from Putin's invasion of Ukraine, pacifists in Ukraine and Britain have called for urgent peace talks without preconditions to end the bloodshed.

PPU chair Peter Glasgow with a placard reading 'Nurses Not Nukes'

£10bn extra for army would be an insult in cost-of-living crisis

Britian's leading pacifist organisation has slammed suggestions that the army should be given an extra £10bn in next month's budget.

Sending more arms to Ukraine won't bring peace or end the suffering

British pacifists have said that sending more Western arms to Ukraine will fuel war and do nothing to bring peace.

A picket line with a banner reading 'Support the right to strike'

Troops breaking strikes will undermine democracy, say pacifists

Britain's leading pacifist network has criticised plans to deploy military personnel to do the work of striking paramedics and border staff.

Nurses' picket line at St Thomas' hospital

Don't use the military to break strikes, says Peace Pledge Union

As nurses went on strike today, pacifists said that the UK’s massive military budget would be better spent on services such as the NHS.

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