Schnews reports on a march against the world’s second largest seller of small-arms, Heckler and Koch.

About 200,000 teachers turned out for the strike called this week by the NUT. The World Socialist Web Site reports on the reaction.

From the CND site:

May is a month of action against the US missile defence system. US plans to put new bases in central Europe, and NATO’s recent backing for this provocative step, are making a new nuclear arms race more likely. Join us at the following events…

Stop the War Coalition reports on the proposed ‘school of death’, a military super-academy to be built at St Athan in Wales.

The ubiquitous peace symbol turns 50 years old this year. In this excerpt from the new, lavishly illustrated book Peace: 50 Years of Protest, Barry Miles describes the origin of the symbol in the anti-nuclear politics in England in the 1950s.

How was Campaign Against Arms Trade infiltrated by arms company spies and what lessons can activists learn from this experience? Eveline Lubbers investigates.

Rachel Cohen has been surveying anti-war protesters on recent demonstrations – and uncovering a few surprises in the process.

In 1968, fury at the Vietnam war sparked protests and uprisings across the world: from Paris and Prague to Mexico. Tariq Ali considers the legacy 40 years on.

Lindsey German, one of the founders of the Stop the War Coalition – a British anti-war movement established in the wake of the terror attacks of 9/11 – assesses the legacy of the last five years.

Young people need to capitalise on the feelings that made us demonstrate against the Iraq war in 2003, and join today’s demonstration. Lena de Casparis will be there.

Fifty years after the historic march on Alderston, a protest camp at the atomic weapons based has been outlawed in yet another blow to civil liberties, writes Kim Sengupta.

Three years on, SchNEWS reviews the UK “ban” on hunting.

Michael Dickinson recalls his own bombing protest in the Houses of Parliament.

Plane Stupid makes a mug of House of Commons security arrangements.

The irony of the Police Federation’s failure to secure permission to march through Parliament Square in protest at the government’s latest pay deal is impossible to miss, writes the Morning Star, but we should not let our amusement get in the way of solidarity.

SchNEWS on growing movement to resist the British government’s inhumane and racist policies on immigration.

Today’s ban by the government against the anti-war protest is a menace to everyone’s freedom, writes Andrew Murray.

SchNews on the recent government decision to ban the Stop the War march in London.