Join Medact for an evening lecture from Dr Carlos Umaña, to celebrate the memory of Dr Martin Hartog.

The organisers welcome Medact members, health workers, students and particularly young campaigners as we reflect on campaigning for a nuclear weapons-free world.

There is an increasing urgency to strengthen our campaigning movement, and build closer connections and coalition with movements dedicated to climate justice, anti-militarism and anti-imperialism. Following the lecture, we’ll hear a discussion between Carlos and UK-based campaigners for disarmament, chaired by Marion Birch, on the challenges and opportunities for growing the movement for nuclear disarmament in our current political context. The evening will close with a drinks reception for attendees.

The event will take place at St. Ethelburga’s Centre for Reconciliation and Peace, 78 Bishopsgate, London EC2N 4AG.

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Join CND Peace Education for an afternoon of poetry, community and celebrating youth voices! In a national call out, CND’s award-winning Peace Education programme encouraged students from across the country to submit original poems to explore issues of hope and peace and amplify the voices of young people. The ‘Verses of Hope’ National Peace Poetry Competition commemorated the 80th anniversary of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The competition was judged by published poets, Antony Owen and Aaron Kent.

This ceremony will include awards and a special section of the winning poets reading out their selected work.

The event is free, but due to limited capacity, we ask that you reserve your ticket in advance.

If you book and are unable to make it, we also ask that you cancel your reservation to open up booking spaces.

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Fifteen years on from the signing of the Lancaster House Treaties in November 2010, Keir Starmer and Emmanuel Macron have reaffirmed their commitment to the joint development of the two countries’ nuclear arsenals and a vision of security based on the illusion of nuclear deterrence. Join CND for this conference, where speakers from France and the UK will consider alternative visions of security and the need for nuclear disarmament.

With guest speakers Bishop William Kenney, co-author of ‘Called to be Peacemakers: A Catholic approach to arms control and disarmament’; Dr Joanna Frew, Outreach Coordinator for Rethinking Security; Msgr Bruno-Marie Duffé, Secretary Emeritus of the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development; and Etienne Godinot, co-founder of the Mouvement pour une Alternative Non-Violente.

The event will take place at the Community Hall, St Anne’s Church, 55 Dean Street, London W1D 6AF. The conference will be followed by a peace walk and vigil in the afternoon.

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Join CND for this national conference to discuss how the government’s decision to buy nuclear-capable jets will put us at risk and make us poorer.

The government has announced it is buying 12 nuclear-capable fighter jets. This is a significant expansion of its nuclear capabilities, meaning that Britain will be able to launch nuclear weapons from both the sea and sky.

This is yet another disastrous decision by the Starmer government. It won’t make us safer. Instead, it will increase the risk of nuclear weapons being used in war. And it takes even more money away from our public services.

Buying American nuclear jets also ties Britain even closer to the dangerous leadership of Donald Trump.

Join CND for this national conference to discuss why we must campaign against the purchase of these fighter jets and urge the government to reverse its disastrous war drive, and instead focus on providing real, human security – funding health, education, and climate action.

More information on speakers and panels to be announced. 

The conference will take place at The Green House, Ethical Property, 244 – 254 Cambridge Heath Road, London E2 9DA. Nearest stations: Bethnal Green (Central Line, underground); Cambridge Heath (Weaver Line, Overground).

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Please contact information@cnduk.org or phone the CND office on 020 7700 2393 with any queries.

CND REPOST

HELLFIRE: A JOURNEY FROM HIROSHIMA
(1986, John Junkerman)
SCREENING AND PANEL DISCUSSION

The film shows the life and work of Iri and Toshi Maruki, Japanese artists who created the ‘Hiroshima Panels’. The film documents both their artistic process and their peace activism.

PANEL: Sophie Bolt (General Secretary, CND); Min-Kyoo Kim (Cambridge); Libby Saxton (QMUL); Guy Westwell (QMUL).

The event will take place at BLOC cinema, ArtsOne, Queen Mary University of London E1 4PD.

Organised by Queen Mary University of London, CND and Centre for Film and Ethics.

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Please contact information@cnduk.org or phone the CND office on 020 7700 2393 with any queries.

Join us for this national demonstration to tell the UK government to end the genocide and to stop arming Israel.

Assemble 12 noon in central London.

Protest called by: Palestine Solidarity Campaign, Friends of Al-Aqsa, Stop the War Coalition, Muslim Association of Britain, Palestinian Forum in Britain, Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament.

For any queries, contact information@cnduk.org or phone the CND office on 020 7700 2393.

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Take action for Palestine in your workplace on Thursday, 9th October.

Make some noise with pots and pans! Have a canteen chat or a gate go-out, put up a poster or pin on a badge – let’s show our support for Palestine. Start organising events at or near your workplaces now.

Day of action called by Palestine Solidarity Campaign, Friends of Al-Aqsa, Stop the War Coalition, Muslim Association of Britain, Palestinian Forum in Britain, Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament.

For any querie,s please email enquiries@cnduk.org or phone the CND office on 020 7700 2393.

If you didn’t get along to The Pop Up Players performance of a new play by Ann Garrett, a leading light of Bromley Borough CND, during the 80th anniversary commemorations of Hiroshima and Nagasaki this year, there’s a second chance to see it on 21 September, 8 pm at Blackheath Quaker Meeting House, Bromley Friends Meeting House, Ravensbourne Rd, BR1 1HP. Ann encourages others to take up the theme of Give Peace a Chance by performing her play in other localities. It’s available in full below. If you do use it, please let us know, and we’ll pass the details to Ann.

Access the play: https://www.londoncnd.org/s/Give-Peace-A-Chance.pdf

By Mark Howell,

We met in-person in June to discuss future activities, and decided to campaign to raise awareness of the need to divest from nuclear weapons and arms manufacture and to emphasise alternative spending priorities – such as NHS, housing, education. One of our members shared the Medact, toolkit on divestment, Don’t Bank on the Bomb.

We’ll be working with dED, Demilitarise Education, on student-focused campaigning in local universities or colleges – in particular London College of Communication at Elephant and Castle, London Southbank University, on Borough Road, and King's College Waterloo Campus.

Lambeth & Southwark CND also plans to join other groups at diverse events around London for the eightieth anniversary of Hiroshima Day and Nagasaki Day on 6 and 9 August.

 The group met again on 12 July to finalise the details of some of our activities:

Windrush Square, Brixton SW2 1JQ at 12 noon Saturday 30 August, with a literature table and banner, to leaflet and engage in discussion with visitors to our stall.

We’re taking our literature table and banner to St Thomas’ Hospital, SE1 7EH, at 12 noon on Saturday 20 September, to do the same.

Join the Together against Trump alliance – of which CND is a member – to show that the President of the US is not welcome here, not least because of the American nuclear weapons now deployed in Britain.

Assemble 2pm at Portland Place with a rally to follow at 5pm (location TBC).

More information to follow, but in the meantime please contact information@cnduk.org or phone the CND office on 020 7700 2393 with any queries.

By Mark Howell,

We met in-person in June to discuss future activities, and decided to campaign to raise awareness of the need to divest from nuclear weapons and arms manufacture and to emphasise alternative spending priorities – such as NHS, housing, education. One of our members shared the Medact, toolkit on divestment, Don’t Bank on the Bomb.

We’ll be working with dED, Demilitarise Education, on student-focused campaigning in local universities or colleges – in particular London College of Communication at Elephant and Castle, London Southbank University, on Borough Road, and King's College Waterloo Campus.

Lambeth & Southwark CND also plans to join other groups at diverse events around London for the eightieth anniversary of Hiroshima Day and Nagasaki Day on 6 and 9 August.

 The group met again on 12 July to finalise the details of some of our activities:

Windrush Square, Brixton SW2 1JQ at 12 noon Saturday 6 September, with a literature table and banner, to leaflet and engage in discussion with visitors to our stall. MP Bell Ribeiro Addy will attend this session.

We’re taking our literature table and banner to St Thomas’ Hospital, SE1 7EH, at 12 noon on Saturday 20 September, to do the same.

As part of a summer of action for Gaza, CND is supporting this protest at RAF High Wycombe to take the fight for an arms embargo of Israel to the home of the very highest levels of RAF command!

Book your space on the CND coach from London. Meet just outside Embankment tube station at 9:30am for a 9:45am sharp departure. We will be departing RAF High Wycombe at 4pm latest for an expected 6:30pm arrival back in London.

Tickets available here

Commemorate Nagasaki Day at the London Peace Pagoda in Battersea Park

Saturday 9 August, 7pm to 9pm.

The London commemoration of Nagasaki Day is organised by Reverend Gyoro Nagase, of the Nipponzan Myohoji Buddhist order, which built the peace pagoda, and supported by Japanese Against Nuclear (JAN) and London Region CND. JAN member Shigeo Kobayashi will host the ceremony. London CND Vice Chair Hannah Kemp-Welch is among the speakers. Everyone is welcome, bring flowers and incense if you wish.

The Japanese Nipponzan Myohoji order of Buddhists is known for its commitment to peace and social justice – in particular nuclear disarmament. The order has built peace pagodas across the world, including in Hiroshima in 1966 and Nagasaki in 1970, to commemorate the lives lost as a result of the atomic bombing of the two cities.

Rev Nagase has been based at the London Peace Pagoda since it opened in 1985. He believes ‘London is very important place which has an impact on all religions, races and countries.’

For details contact Nipponzan Myohoji on 020 7228 9620

Pax Christi Ecumenical Service and Interfaith Peace Walk

5-6pm, Crypt Chapel, SW1P 1QJ

All welcome at the ecumenical service at Crypt Chapel, Ambrosden Avenue (behind Westminster Catholic Cathedral). The service commemorates the 82nd anniversary of the death of Blessed Franz Jagerstatter who was executed in 1943 for refusing to serve in Hitler’s army and beatified in October 2007.

This will be followed by an Interfaith Peace Walk, assembling in front of Westminster Cathedral, Victoria Street

and walking to join the Nagasaki Day commemoration at the London Peace Pagoda in Battersea Park,

 The ceremony seeks to reflect on the horrors of war in an atomic age, and to pray together for peace and harmony between all peoples and nations. This event is supported by London CND, with a short speech from one of our Vice Chairs.

All are very welcome to join and offer flowers and incense.

On Wednesday 6th August, 80 years since the first Atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, London Region CND will come together for our annual commemoration in Tavistock Square.

Programme

Choir - Raised Voices

Welcome 

• Hannah Kemp-Welch, Vice-Chair London CND

• Councillor Eddie Hanson - Mayor of Camden

Planting the tree

• History of the cherry tree - Bernard Miller

Memorial

• Laying of the wreath - Councillor Eddie Hanson

• Chanting - Rev Nagase

Speeches

• Councillor Emma Dent-Coad, London CND Vice-President

• Murad Qureshi, London CND Vice-President

Cultural responses

• Michael Mears, performance

• Jan Woolf, reading

• Hugh Goodacre, singing

Close

• Carol Turner, Chair London CND - London CND announcements

• Shigeo Kobayashi, Japanese Against Nuclear - Nagasaki Day announcement

• Thanks - Hannah Kemp-Welch

Choir - Raised Voices

Extra date added
Tuesday 5th August 2025 7 pm FARM STREET CHURCH, ARRUPE HALL, 114, Mount Street, Mayfair, London, W1K 3AH  (nearest tubes, Bond Street and Green Park)

Newly revised and staged for live performance, The Priest’s Tale by award-winning British actor/playwright Michael Mears is his adaptation of one of the atomic-bomb survivors’ accounts from John Hersey’s remarkable book Hiroshima.

Father Wilhelm was a German Jesuit priest living in Hiroshima, who survived the blast but witnessed much of the destruction. Told with compassion, warmth and flashes of humour, The Priest’s Tale is a clear-eyed depiction of the pity of war… and of the terror wrought at the start of our nuclear age.

After the 1-hour (approx.) performance, there will be an audience Q&A.

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Michael Mears

Michael Mears was born in London, where he still lives. With over four decades of experience as a professional actor in theatre, film and television, he has worked for all the major UK theatre companies, including the National Theatre, the Royal Shakespeare Company and the Peter Hall Company, performing in London’s West End on numerous occasions. As a playwright Michael is best known as a creator of original solo plays. This Evil Thing, depicting the struggle of Britain’s WWI conscientious objectors, was performed by him over 100 times in the UK and in 2018 in nine U.S. states. He has also written seven solo plays for BBC Radio 4. In 2022 Michael wrote his first play for two actors, one British, one Japanese, called The Mistake, which is also about Hiroshima, with sold-out runs at London’s Arcola Theatre in 2023, followed by a 28-date UK tour. Earlier this year the play had a six-week tour in the USA including three weeks playing off-Broadway, New York. The Mistake tours Japan in September and is being supported by the Daiwa Foundation.

As Israel continues to commit genocide in Gaza, while the UK government seeks to repress the movement for Palestine, join CND and others for the latest national march.

We will be calling to End the Genocide, for the UK to Stop Arming Israel, and to Stop Starving Gaza.

Assemble 12 noon near Embankment to march to Downing Street, see the following image for full route.

Join Merton CND for their next action to pay respects to all those who have been killed by weapons produced by arms manufacturers, and to highlight the horrors of war. Amidst the ongoing genocide in Gaza, Merton CND is be working with local Palestine solidarity groups to amplify this message.

Vigil for the Victims of War, outside an arms manufacturer

Friday 18th July 2025 – 12:00pm

118 Burlington Road, New Malden, KT3 4NR

(If you can) bring flowers or children’s toys to help with the stunt and wear white for peace.

If you are coming from Wimbledon Station, then get the 131 bus towards Kingston and get off at Shannon Corner / Rookwood Avenue. It’s also possible to use the 152 bus route.

After countless rallies, marches, hours spent leafleting and knocking on doors, with 3000 signatures submitted and accepted, Lewisham and Greenwich have forced divestment onto Lewisham Council’s July agenda.

They have also created a community that will cut off the money tap to Israeli genocide, and are fighting to make Lewisham an Apartheid Free Borough.

This campaign belongs to the Lewisham community, and they need you there when the divestment petition you signed gets debated:

Details:

• Wednesday 16th of July

• 6:30 PM

• Lewisham Town Hall, SE13 7UW

Join Lewisham and Greenwich CND for a public meeting to say ‘No War on Iran’.

With guest speakers Ashok Kumar, Professor of Political Economy; Sami Ramadani, analyst of Middle East current affairs, Stop the War Coalition; Nuvpreet Kalra, CodePink, author, organiser; and Fiona Sim, Black Liberation Alliance, Lewisham and Greenwich CND Chair.

Vegan food provided and children welcome. Please consider making a donation to help cover costs.

Register here

For any queries, please contact 07447 915102 or email LewishamGreenwichCND@gmail.com

Join us to tell the government to end the genocide; stop arming Israel; and stop starving Gaza!

March through central London, assembly point and route TBC.

Protest called by: Palestine Solidarity Campaign, Friends of Al-Aqsa, Stop the War Coalition, Muslim Association of Britain, Palestinian Forum in Britain, Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament.

For any queries please phone the CND office on 020 7700 2393 or email information@cnduk.org

The local CND group in Lambeth recently became Lambeth & Southwark CND and has already attracted some new supporters. The group will be joining forces with Lambeth & Southwark Stop the War for an informal meeting to discuss and plan local activities. 

Anyone who’d like to get involved is welcome to attend – that’s 12 noon on Saturday 14 June at Pret a Manger, Elephant & Castle SE1 6BH, on the boundary of the two boroughs.

If you’d like to join L&S CND WhatsApp group, here’s the link

If you’d like to join Lambeth & Southwark CND’s email list, drop a line to lambethcnd@gmail.com

CND will be joining trade unions, campaign groups and community organisations to take the Welfare not Warfare message to the government. Assemble at 12 noon on Portland Place, outside the BBC.

Help with the CND banner, placards, and leaflet distribution is welcome. Contact Sara at the CND national office if you can come along.

India-Pakistan Conflict Over Kashmir: A Persistent Nuclear Threat 

London CND webinar with Murad Qureshi and Achin Vanaik

Monday 2 June, 18.00 to 19.15 

India and Pakistan have clashed over Kashmir since 1947. When both became nuclear weapons states at the end of the 1990s, a regional confrontation over territory became a crisis between nuclear powers with potential implications for global security. Despite the fragile ceasefire, the attack on Pahalgam on 22 April underscored the volatility of the relationship between India and Pakistan, and the ever-present risk of nuclear conflict. 

Join Murad Qureshi and Achin Vanaik for an online discussion of the origins of the present crisis and how the risk of nuclear conflict can be averted.

Register in advance to attend London CND’s webinar here.

Murad Qureshi is a Vice President of London CND and a member of CND National Council. He is a Board Member of BRAC UK, part of an international organisation helping local communities tackle extreme poverty, illiteracy, disease, and social injustice. Murad, whose family hails from Bangladesh, was born and brought up in Britain. He specialises in environmental economy and maintains a keen interest in South Asia. Murad is a former London Assembly member and a past chair of Stop the War Coalition. 

Achin Vanaik is a Transnational Institute Associate and an active member of the Coalition for Nuclear Disarmament and Peace (India). He is a retired Professor of International Relations and former Head of Political Science Department at the University of Delhi. Achin is a co-recipient of the Sean McBride International Peace Prize, 2000. He has authored, edited, and contributed to many books on 

India's political economy and issues of communalism and secularism, as well as nuclear disarmament. 

The moderator is Carol Turner, chair of London CND. Carol is also a Vice Chair of CND and Convenor of CND’s International Advisory Group.

Come along to Sydenham and Forest Hill’s Peace and Plant fair between 12 noon-4pm on 31st May at Grow Mayow (behind the cafe in Mayow Park).

There will be stalls and refreshments.

Help with stalls and refreshments would be much appreciated, please let me know if you are available at all, even for part of the time.

For any queries (or if you can help with the fair at all) please contact goteamgini@hotmail.com.

Join Lewisham and Greenwich CND and alliance partners to discuss the next steps in the local divestment campaign.

Our Petition to the council has been submitted and we need to make plans for the public debate we have in Lewisham Council. We have set the agenda, and Lewisham Council cannot ignore us now.

Click here for more information

Food provided. Children welcome. Please consider making a donation to help cover costs.

For any queries please email LewishamGreenwichCND@gmail.com or text John at 07447 915102.

Join CND Vice-President Ian Fairlie for the launch of his book ‘The Radiation Scientists who Alerted us to the Dangers of Radiation’ on Tuesday May 27 at 12:45 pm UK time, at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in central London, UK. The book was co-authored with Cindy Folkers.

For those attending in person, the event will take place at the Manson Lecture Theatre. Please arrive by 12:30pm.

Click here to attend online.

Paperback and electronic versions of the book are now available from the UK publishers The Ethic Press.

For any queries, please email enquiries@cnduk.org.

Join Merton Peace Coalition/CND to protest against the arms trade!

Assemble next door to New Malden fire station at Northrop Grumman.

For any queries please contact 07475 262272 or email mertonpeacecoalition@gmail.com