The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament: a short history (audio only)

Martin Shaw talks about his new book, in discussion with LSE academics Professor Mary Kaldor and Dr. Luke Cooper . The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (Agenda Publishing), the first academic overview of the movement in Britain to appear this century. The book discusses the movement's political dilemmas, including the relationships between mainstream political campaigning and direct action (like the Greenham women's peace camp) which have been at its heart from its origins in the 1950s, as well as its links to other antiwar and social movements and changes in left-wing politics.
Martin is joined in conversation with Dr. Luke Cooper, chair of Another Europe is Possible (who chairs the talk), and Professor Mary Kaldor, who was central to the European Nuclear Disarmament (END) movement in the 1980s, which helped remove intermediate nuclear missiles from Europe (although during his first term, Donald Trump opened the way for their return when he withdrew the USA from the treaty that banned them).
Martin Shaw is Research Professor at IBEI, Barcelona, and Emeritus Professor of International Relations at the University of Sussex. He has written widely on war, genocide and social movements and was involved in CND and END as well as some of the other movements with which antinuclear politics is linked in his new book. www.ibei.org/e...
Book: www.agendapub....
(please note this recording ends a minute before the talk ended due to technical problems, hence the slightly abrupt ending)