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

A Special Relationship ... with Truth?

 The Spokesman 108

Spokesman 108Edited by Ken Coates

Ken Coates - Special Relationship?
Sir Edmund Thomas QC
- Lord Goldsmith and Iraq
Bertolt Brecht - Parade of the Old New
Bob Marshall-Andrews MP
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Another Agenda

Bob Dixon
- Demockracy
Scott Ritter - Britain Can't Handle the Truth
Bertrand Russell - Writing Principia
Kurt Vonnegut - Kurt is up in Heaven now
Farewell
Michael Foot
Lord Judge, Lord Neuberger - Judgment
Clive Stafford Smith - Spooks sold down the river
Alexis Lykiard - The Chilcot Enquiry
Nurit Peled Elhanan - Carnage in Gaza

Dossier - Russell Tribunal on Palestine
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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

Dossier
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Responsibility to Protest

The Spokesman 106

Responsibility to ProtestEdited by Ken Coates

Editorial
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

Editorial
War Crimes
War Crimes I - Gordon Brown & Others

War Crimes II -

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 - War Crimes III - The Downing Street Memo
E. W. Thomas - War Crimes IV - Indictment of Tony Blair
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Michael Barratt Brown - The Banks - Too Big to Fail
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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