Author: Hilary Chuter

Trades Union Congress headquarters, London 1926 Courtesy of TUC Library Collections, London Metropolitan University

Trade Union Councils of Action

Mass strikes threatened if Russia attacked...

Trades Union Congress headquarters, London 1926 Courtesy of TUC Library Collections, London Metropolitan University

Trades Union Congress calls No More War Demonstrations

War has an ‘evil effect on the working people’...

Soviet delegates at TUC Congress, Hull 1924 Courtesy of TUC Library Collections, London Metropolitan University

Russian Trade Union Delegation in Hull

International links between Russian and British trade unionists...

Battle of Cable Street

Mass mobilisation stops British Union of Fascists marching in London’s East End...

League of Nations flag

Nelson Branch of the League of Nations Union

Active and enthusiastic membership of LNU in Nelson...

No More War demonstration, Nelson 1934 (Selina Cooper, second right) Courtesy of Lancashire Archives, Archive ref: DDX 1137/4/68

No More War Movement, Nelson 1934

‘Mothers of England, shall youth be slaughtered?’...

Weavers’ Institute, Nelson © Hilary Chuter

No More War Conference, Nelson 1934

Conference agrees to set up Anti-War Committee...

War Resisters’ International Second Triennial Conference 1928

The development of a movement...

War Resisters’ International in Japan

Non-violent methods used in Tokyo...

War Resisters’ International in Asia

Indian section of War Resisters’ International...