Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation

Welcome to the website of the Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation.  Launched in 1963, the Foundation was established to carry forward Russell's work for peace, human rights and social justice.  Forty years later, it continues to do so.

Here, you will also find information about our journal, The Spokesman, and links to our publications website Spokesman Books.

The Spokesman Journal

The Spokesman is the journal of the Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation. It features independent journalism on peace and nuclear disarmament, human rights and civil liberties, and contemporary politics. Contributors include Robert Fisk, Noam Chomsky, Naomi Klein, John Le Carre, Trevor Griffiths and Kurt Vonnegut to name a small selection.

'I've just had chance to read The Spokesman ... its really first rate.'
Noam Chomsky

Regime Changers Anonymous

 The Spokesman 107

Regime Changers AnonymousEdited by Ken Coates

Ken Coates - Regime Changers Anonymous
Tony Simpson
- Fixing the Intelligence?
Lord Goldsmith
- Law and War
Lord Steyn
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The legality of the invasion of Iraq

David Halpin
- Who killed David Kelly?
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Alexis Lykiard - Haiku
John Arden - Gallows
Noam Chomsky - The US and Israel
John Berger - Al Rabweh
Mahmoud Darwish - The Dice Player

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Responsibility to Protest

The Spokesman 106

Responsibility to ProtestEdited by Ken Coates

Robert Black - Lockerbie and the Law
Hans Köchler
- Unfair Trial
Marcello Mega
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Lockerbie - the Cover-up

Tam Dalyell
- The Crime of Lockerbie
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John Pilger - The Party of Criminal War
Noam Chomsky -
Responsibility to Protest

Tony Blair - Pirate's Charter
Ken Coates - Benign Whitewash
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Reprieve - Kidnapped on Diego Garcia
Ann Talbot, Trevor Griffths - 'A New World' at The Globe

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Money Troubles ... War Crimes -

The Spokesman 105

Money Troubles ... War CrimesEdited by Ken Coates

War Crimes
Bob Marshall-Andrews MP
Sir Menzies Campbell MP
Michael Mates MP
David Davis MP
George Galloway MP
Alan Simpson MP
Adam Price MP


Matthew Rycroft - The Downing Street Memo
E. W. Thomas - Indictment of Tony Blair
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Michael Barratt Brown - The Banks
Jim Mortimer - What Labour Forgot
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Henry McCubbin - European Elections
James Kirkup - My A-Bomb Biography
George Lansbury - The Titanic and The Herald

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Revolutions, Altering World Money, Tom Paine ... Two, Three, Many Revolutions - The Spokesman104

RevolutionsEdited by Ken Coates

Paul Rogers - Drone Wars in Pakistan
Ken Coates - Blowback or Frame-up in Lancashire?
Peter Linebaugh - Tom Paine: Two, Three, Many Revolutions ...

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Altering the World Money
Michael Barratt Brown - On Redistribution
Stuart Holland - On Bretton Woods
Ken Coates - Unfinished Business
Zhou Xiaochuan - How to Do It

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John Dugard - Apartheid in Palestine

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Russell Tribunal on Palestine
Nurit Peled - Until When?
Ken Coates - Russell Tribunals
Richard Falk - Situation in Palestine

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George Galloway MP - Viva Palestina
Tony Simpson - Licence to Torture
Bryan Gould - I Disown this Government

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