CommonSpace editor Ben Wray argues that there may never be a more important moment to demonstrate against the UK’s complicity in the Saudi bombing of Yemen than now

AMID the noise over the Jamal Khashoggi killing, the UN aid chief Mark Lowcock’s words to the UN Security Council on Tuesday hardly got noticed.

But they couldn’t have been more alarming.

“There is now a clear and present danger of an imminent and great big famine engulfing Yemen: much bigger than anything any professional in this field has seen during their working lives,” he said.

Leading figures in drive for war prepare for public relations offensive

FAMILIES OF SOLDIERS who were killed in the Iraq War are set to join the former UN envoy to Iraq and leading anti-war campaigners to hold a ‘People’s Tribunal’ to scrutinise the official inquiry into the invasion.

The tribunal will be held on Wednesday (8 June) less than a month from the long-awaited publication of the Chilcot Inquiry, and will also hear from soldiers who took part in the war.

Questions over use of covert missions without parliamentary scrutiny

PEACE CAMPAIGNERS have raised concerns over reports of an ongoing secret UK war in Libya.

The campaign organisation Stop the War told CommonSpace that it is "absolutely certain" that UK special forces are taking part in military operations in the war-torn North African nation of Libya, after years of fall-out following the overthrow of the Gaddafi regime.

Journalist Yvonne Ridley explores how Stop The War has found itself in the middle of the fight for the future of the Labour party

IT IS incredible that an internationally famous movement like Stop the War which brought together the broadest coalition of peace activists drawn from all sections of multicultural Britain is now coming under fire from a loose gaggle of disgruntled career politicians.

Divisions inside the Labour party may make the SNP the crucial element in efforts to oppose military action

LEADING PEACE campaigners have called on the SNP to use its "absolutely critical" influence at Westminster to oppose military action in Syria by the UK Government.

SCND and Stop the War among groups organising the largest demonstration against nuclear weapons in a generation

CAMPAIGNERS preparing for the largest demonstration against nuclear weapons in the UK since the end of the cold war say politicians using the issue to minimise Jeremy Corbyn and the SNP have "completely lost the plot".

Controversial arms company to establish new centre in Glasgow to exploit links with city's universities

CAMPAIGNERS have slammed arms company Lockheed Martin's decision to establish a new base in Glasgow as "morally wrong".

Lockheed Martin has existing links with universities in Glasgow, and it's thought the connections were a factor in the decision to move the base from Inchinnan.