Einzelstück 3 - Against All War. Fifty Years of Peace News 1936 - 1986

Against All War: Fifty years of Peace News gives a real insight into an almost unparalleled achievement in radical publishing. Written in an informative and easily accessible style, Against All War moves right through Peace News' fifty year history, pulling out significant events; highlighting political trends, and pin-pointing important news coverage. It shows those times when Peace News was a lone voice, and a voice others tried to silence. It shows, too, those optimistic and inspiring times when the paper was flourishing and developing as new movements began to spring up. It documents the times when Peace News ran new "scoops" and exclusives - and the many times it has embarrased political authorities by making "secrets" public. It illustrates how the authorities sometimes hauled editors into the dock, in response ... In addition, it outlines the development of political nonviolence - as seen through the pages of the paper. From the days of "peace through World Government" to the revolutionary nonviolence that was crystalised in the late 60s and70s, it follows that development right up to the present. Against All War is a brief history of one important side of the struggle for peace over the last fifty years. It is a history that will not be recorded in text books: it is a history we must claim and understand for ourselves. (Klappentext)