With new focus on the EU dimension, less has been made of another bedrock of SNP policy, namely dismantling Trident. Or more specifically, how this can be reconciled with the leadership’s enthusiasm for NATO. However, even if Scotland isn’t much interested in NATO, that doesn’t stop NATO types taking an interest in Scotland.
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“A more defensive and authoritarian stance from the US and UK states against the anti-bomb movement is growing.”
Analysis: The fight against Trident has gone global, and so has the repression
Marian Pallister, chair of Pax Christi Scotland, says the 50th ratification of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons is an important milestone for the global anti-nukes movement, but they have not yet reached the summit. I think that being a hill walker helps. When you climb a Munro – those Scottish hills over […]
Marian Pallister: Nuclear weapons prohibition is a step closer – but we have to keep going to reach the summit
As the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons moves closer to its 50th ratification, David Mackenzie examines the growing pressure the UK could be under to disarm its nuclear arsenal The 50th ratification for the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) is expected soon, and is likely to take place before the end […]
David Mackenzie: Is the world moving closer to banning the bomb?
“As the virus clearly shows, such a ‘deterrent’ is totally powerless in the midst of the many threats we will face in the coming decades. We need a re-allocation of such resources to the benefit of society as a whole, and not the imperial ambitions of the ailing British state.”
Jonathon Shafi: Opposition to Trident will take on new meaning in the post-Coronavirus landscape
“In a word gripped by a pandemic, economic crisis, climate change and intensifying geopolitical rivalries, the whole conversation around the veracity of small, independent, self-sustaining nations will transform.”