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A YOUNG boy wearing his favourite football club’s new shirt plays with a mounted machine gun as an Army recruitment officer looks on with a grin.
This is the spectacle that Welsh anti-war activists tried to prevent at an event in Wrexham ahead of Armed Forced Day, which was marked across Britain yesterday.
Members of the Wrexham Peace and Justice group maintained a “peace presence” at the event on Saturday which saw members of the Royal Welsh Regiment show young children how to fire lethal weapons.
As the world marks International Women’s Day, African women warn that wars, mineral grabs and militarism are drowning out promises of peace. Human rights defender MARIE-CLAIRE FARAY explains
As the government quietly upgrades the role of Britain’s special forces, their growing global footprint and near-total exemption from democratic oversight should alarm us all, says ROGER McKENZIE
WILL DRY speaks to three former members of the armed forces about the political hypocrisy surrounding Armistice Day, how war is a function of class society, and the far right’s use of militarism and nationalism to divide working people
