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The Morning Star carried this review of Trident Undone (Spokesman issue 127) on Monday 11 May, by James Walker. Click the image below for a larger version. The review is also available online at https://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/a-82d6-Laying-the-Trident-myths-to-rest#.VVDCPo5Viko

As Nato leaders gather this week in Wales, JEREMY CORBYN explores how the military alliance finds ever new ways to justify its seemingly endless expansion. Thursday 28th Aug 2014 posted by Morning Star Looking at government websites about the forthcoming Nato leaders’ conference at the Celtic Manor golf club, one could be forgiven for assuming it was some sort of gourmet festival. The leaders of 60 nations will descend on Celtic Manor hotel, be treated to a sumptuous dinner at Cardiff Castle hosted by Prince Charles, visit a warship in Cardiff Bay and enjoy all the best hospitality on offer. The chef has been named, the roads closed, the security fences built and demonstrations planned. To counter this (presumably unwelcome) intrusion there will be Nato-themed exhibitions and culinary delights. There is no encouragement of the BBC or other media to discuss the actual role and purpose of Nato, its effects on our foreign and defence policy or its role in conflicts around the ...

Morning Star , Monday 22 March 2010 Reviewed by John Green Many today will not remember the legendary Labour MP Fenner Brockway, who died in 1988. Hopefully, this reissue of the first volume of his autobiography by Spokesman Books will make him better known to a new generation. Like Tony Benn, Brockway was one of those rare figures who started early on as a principled socialist and remained so to the end of his life. His political career spanned the bulk of the 20th century and for most of that time he was at the centre of progressive politics nationally and internationally. He was a founder member, among other organisations, of the Independent Labour Party (ILP), the Movement for Colonial Freedom - now Liberation - War on Want and CND. He became an MP for the ILP at a very young age and, after its demise, for the Labour Party. Vehemently anti-war, he spent several years in various prisons as a conscientious objector during the first world war. His description of the treatment he and ...