Summer antiwar events and exhibitions
The radical centenary of the first world war will include actions, films and workshops
The Great War: myths and realities
6 August 2014 – 19 December, Working Class Movement Library, Salford
The exhibition introduction states: ‘We will not remember the “lost” or the “fallen”. We will remember 16 million dead whose lives were not given but were taken from them by politicians and generals’
‘The World is My Country’ tour
Summer – winter 2014, across UK
Peace News will tour with speakers and a poster project celebrating last century’s war resisters.
18 June, London
WWI opposition came from liberals, socialists, anarchists, soldiers and others. Editor Anthony Zurbrugg will be at Housmans introducing a book that brings together these diverse voices.
Entry £3
29 June – 9 November, Newcastle
The Star and Shadow will host Stanley Kubrick’s Paths of Glory and seven other English and foreign-language films, plus a discussion. Entry is £5 per film with £3.50 concessions and no one turned away.
31 July – 4 August, Suffolk
Workshops will range from ‘Life after capitalism’ to ‘Make cake, not war’ at the sixth edition of this family friendly event, which aims to embody the values of a just society.
9 August, Berkshire
In ‘a day of creative and direct action outside the Atomic Weapons Factories in Berkshire’, activists will unravel a collectively knitted pink peace scarf that’s miles long.
Find more events listed by No Glory in War and Stop the War Coalition.
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