Peace – People's World

‘Ban the Bomb’ becomes international law, but U.S. doesn’t sign on

December 22, 2020 By Henry Lowendorf

Abolishing nuclear weapons has been a goal for much of the human race since the U.S. first unleashed them by incinerating two cities in Japan in 1945.

Remembering protest singer Phil Ochs on his 80th birthday

December 18, 2020 By Special to People’s World

Ochs was one of our nation’s most profound singer/songwriters in the period that bridged the Civil Rights, antiwar, and feminist movements.

International virtual webinars call for ending all nuclear weapons

September 30, 2020 By Marilyn Bechtel

On the minds of all the speakers was the intertwined relationship of the world’s major crises – ending nuclear weapons and other struggles for military dominance, defeating the pandemic, curbing climate change, the struggle for racial...

Virtual march on Livermore Lab caps Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombing anniversaries

August 10, 2020 By Marilyn Bechtel

The U.S. lab is devoting nearly 90% of its over-$2 billion budget for 2020-21 to nuclear weapons; only 2% will go to civilian science.

In the streets and in Congress, Americans stand up for peace

January 9, 2020 By Mark Gruenberg And John Wojcik

In the halls of Congress and on the streets of the nation today, the message is the same: No war on Iran!