Comments on: Shirkers and conchies: how governments tried to silence First World War resisters https://www.redpepper.org.uk/global-politics/war/shirkers-and-conchies-how-governments-tried-to-silence-wwi-resisters/ Wed, 12 Nov 2025 15:58:45 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Simon Colbeck https://www.redpepper.org.uk/global-politics/war/shirkers-and-conchies-how-governments-tried-to-silence-wwi-resisters/#comment-248718 Sun, 22 Jun 2014 00:19:39 +0000 https://www.redpepper.org.uk/?p=13494#comment-248718 Call me pedantic but…. Fenner Brockway co-founded “The No *Conscription* Fellowship” with Clifford Allen. It was laid down in 1919 and the “No More War *Movement*” founded in 1921, later merged with Peace Pledge Union.

]]> By: Roy Hollands https://www.redpepper.org.uk/global-politics/war/shirkers-and-conchies-how-governments-tried-to-silence-wwi-resisters/#comment-248364 Sun, 15 Jun 2014 08:18:10 +0000 https://www.redpepper.org.uk/?p=13494#comment-248364 I was encouraged that Ed Milliband led the resistance in parliament to military involvement in Syria. Maybe Labour can regain some of its pacifism, even if it does have mixed motives

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