The Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation, established in 1963, continues the work of the philosopher and activist

Bertrand Russell Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell, (18 May 1872 – 2 February 1970) was a British philosopher, logician, mathematician, and public intellectual. He had influence on mathematics, logic, set theory, and various areas of analytic ...

in the areas of peace,

social justice Social justice is justice in relation to the distribution of wealth, opportunities, and privileges within a society where individuals' rights are recognized and protected. In Western and Asian cultures, the concept of social justice has of ...

, and human rights, with a specific focus on the dangers of

nuclear war Nuclear warfare, also known as atomic warfare, is a War, military conflict or prepared Policy, political strategy that deploys nuclear weaponry. Nuclear weapons are Weapon of mass destruction, weapons of mass destruction; in contrast to conven ...

Ken Coates Kenneth Sidney Coates (16 September 1930 – 27 June 2010) was a British politician and writer. He chaired the Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation (BRPF) and edited '' The Spokesman'', the BRPF magazine launched in March 1970. He was a Labour P ...

was its director. Ralph Schoenman was its general secretary until 1969. Spokesman Books is the publishing imprint of the Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation, and publishes books on politics, peace and disarmament, and history. It is based in

Nottingham Nottingham ( , East Midlands English, locally ) is a City status in the United Kingdom, city and Unitary authorities of England, unitary authority area in Nottinghamshire, East Midlands, England. It is located south-east of Sheffield and nor ...

. '' The Spokesman'' is the journal of the Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation, which reached its 100th issue in August 2008.

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and

Tony Topham Anthony John Topham (27 October 1929 – 2 March 2004) was a British academic and writer. He was an active trade unionist and campaigner for workers rights. Topham was born in Hull. He was educated at Beverley Grammar School, and earned a degree ...

, ''Participation or Control?'' (1967) *Jo O'Brien, ''Women's Liberation in Labour History'' (1972) *''After the Chilean Coup'' (1973) *

Salvador Allende Salvador Guillermo Allende Gossens (26 June 1908 – 11 September 1973) was a Chilean socialist politician who served as the 28th president of Chile from 1970 until Death of Salvador Allende, his death in 1973 Chilean coup d'état, 1973. As a ...

, ''Chile: No More Dependence!'' (1973) *''CIA: The Pike Report'' (1977) *Ken Coates, ''Democracy in the Labour Party'' (1977) *Ken Coates and Tony Topham, ''The Shop Steward's Guide to the Bullock Report'' (1977) * Peter Jenkins, ''Where Trotskyism Got Lost'' (1977) *Alan Roberts and

Zhores Medvedev Zhores Aleksandrovich Medvedev (; 14 November 1925 – 15 November 2018) was a Russian agronomist, biologist, historian and dissident. His twin brother is the historian Roy Medvedev. Biography Early life and education Zhores Medvedev and hi ...

, ''Hazards of Nuclear Power'' (1977) *

Brian Sedgemore Brian Charles John Sedgemore (17 March 1937 – 29 April 2015) was a British politician who served as a Labour Member of Parliament (MP) from 1974 to 1979, and again from 1983 to 2005. He defected to the Liberal Democrats shortly after stand ...

, ''The How and Why of Socialism'' (1977), *

Michael Barratt Brown Michael Barratt Brown (15 March 1918 – 7 May 2015) was a British economist, political activist and adult educator. He was a key figure in the creation of the British New Left in the period after the Soviet invasion of Hungary; he helped to found ...

et al., ed., ''Full Employment'' (1978) *'' Berufsverbote Condemned'' (1978) *''Trident - Nuclear Proliferation the British Way'' (2008) *''Obama's Afghan Dilemma'' (2008) *''Democracy Old and New'' (2008) *''

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: Shock and Awe'' (2008). . Edited by

, with contributions from

Gareth Peirce Gareth Peirce (born Jean Margaret Webb; March 1940) is a British solicitor and human rights activist. She has worked on a number of high-profile cases involving allegations of human rights injustices. Her work with Gerry Conlon and the Guild ...

Moazzam Begg Moazzam Begg (; born 5 July 1968 in Sparkhill, Birmingham) is a British Pakistani who was held in extrajudicial detention by the US government in the Bagram Theater Internment Facility and the Guantanamo Bay detainment camp, in Cuba, for ...

Vladimir Putin Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin (born 7 October 1952) is a Russian politician and former intelligence officer who has served as President of Russia since 2012, having previously served from 2000 to 2008. Putin also served as Prime Minister of Ru ...

Mahmoud Darwish Mahmoud Darwish (; 13 March 1941 – 9 August 2008) was a Palestinians, Palestinian poet and author who was regarded as Palestine's national poet. In 1988 Darwish wrote the Palestinian Declaration of Independence, which was the formal declarat ...

, Saifedean Ammous, Stephen F. Cohen, Andrew Mackinlay MP,

, Jean Ziegler,

James Petras James Petras (born 17 January 1937) is a retired Bartle Professor (Emeritus) of Sociology at Binghamton University in Binghamton, New York and adjunct professor at Saint Mary's University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada who has published on politic ...

, Mike Cooley, Trevor Griffiths and Ann Talbot. * Mike Cooley, 'Architect or Bee? The Human Price of Technology', Foreword by

Frances O'Grady Frances Lorraine Maria O'Grady, Baroness O'Grady of Upper Holloway (born 9 November 1959), is a British former trade unionist leader, who served as the General Secretary of the British Trades Union Congress (TUC) from 2013 to 2022, being the fir ...

(2017) * Mike Cooley, 'Delinquent Genius: The Strange Affair of Man and His Technology' Foreword by

Michael D. Higgins Michael Daniel Higgins (; born 18 April 1941) is an Irish politician, poet, broadcaster, and sociologist who has been serving as the president of Ireland since 2011. Entering national politics through the Labour Party, he served as a senator ...

. (2018). * Mike Cooley, 'The Search for Alternatives, Liberating Human Imagination: A Mike Cooley Reader. (2020) In the Spokesman Pamphlets series there are 94 titles .

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