Veterans for Peace in the United States, 2009. Wikicommons/ Carolmooredc. Some rights reserved.2015 has been a year of extraordinary activism for the UK anti-war movement. A wide array of groups has been busy forging creative campaigns to educate new generations against war in general, to disrupt the trade in lethal weapons and to oppose military intervention in particular places. Very little of this political work gets reported, unless it can be used to attack Jeremy Corbyn.
But one set of protests was so spectacular, so radical and so eloquent that the corporate media was obliged to sit up and take notice. In July and again in December, members of Veterans for Peace UK staged demonstrations that challenged the deep-seated belief that military service was an honourable profession that had turned them all into heroes.
On Friday 10 July, three former soldiers, all members of VfPUK, walked from Trafalgar Square to Downing Street where they lined up, faced the police barricades and declared:
