European Nuclear Disarmament
The European Nuclear Disarmament was formed in 1980 and was based in London. The organization was formed with strong input from the Institute for Policy Studies, its international arm, the Transnational Institute, and the Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation.[1]
About
The organization serves as a primary link between the Western European peace movements including the British Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and Dutch lnterchurch Peace Council, the "independent" Yugoslav League for Peace, Independence and Equality of Peoples, and the Eastern European movements END leaders admit are "officially supported, state controlled" and "reflect Soviet foreign policy."
END has not formed a separate organization as such; but, according to one END leader, Peter D. Jones, a CND activist who started a four-month U.S. tour in January 1982, END "limits itself to individual and group contacts. Contacts with Eastern Europe vary, but East European signatories have urged Western Europeans to visit eastern countries and talk to people in a mutual exchange of views and ideas."[2] END calls for a "nuclear-free Europe," and supports a "Nordic nuclear free zone" which are also goals of the WPC and USSR.
William Arkin, coordinator of the IPS Arms Race and Nuclear Weapons Project, served as coordinator for the END bi-annual "researchers" conference held in the Netherlands in March. END leaders who have visited the United States for speaking and organizing include Mary Kaldor, TransNational Institute fellow and former researcher at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, who is also on the British Labour Party's Defence Committee; and Dan Smith. END's intellectual guru is British Marxist historian E. P. Thompson.[1]
References
- ↑ Jump up to: 1.0 1.1 The War Called Peace: Glossary, published 1982
- ↑ WIN, January 1, 1982