Give Peace a Chance: William Butler Yeats

When people think of William Butler Yeats they usually think of the Poet and the nobel prize winner, many forget he had a completely different side. He was a nationalist, a senator as well as a Pacifist. One cannot ignore the Irony of Yeats being one of the…

Give Peace a Chance — Kagawa Toyohiko

Kagawa Toyohiko (1888–1960) is recognized as Japanese Christian pacifist, Christian reformer, and labor activist whose achievements led him to be nominated to the Noble Peace Prize in 1954 and 1955 and Noble Prize in Literature in 1947 and 1948 for writing over…

Yrjö Kallinen — Socialism, Pacifism and Theosophy

Yrjö Henrik Kallinen was born in 1886 in Northern Ostrobothnia, Finland. His father, whose Socialist ideas caused him a significant amount of problems, making the task of supporting his family all the more difficult, was among the early…

Give Peace a Chance — Josip Broz

While peace is an easy word to utter, it can have a rather complex meaning behind it. One would have a hard time understanding a person who spent a great deal of his life warring, can be considered as someone who contributed greatly to peace in the world. Better yet, how…

Give Peace a Chance — Clara Zetkin

This week’s articles shall provide a look back on pacifist actors out of the social democratic sphere. Who have shaped generations, therefore, they will be honored and their virtue described here by the “Graduates of Democracy”, a group of young and enthusiastic future…

Give Peace a Chance — Sophie Scholl and the White Rose

My grandfather grew up in a socialist, anti-Nazi family at the time of the Third Reich in Germany, and I remember the stories he used to tell me about the resistance. .
One story that I remember vividly was about a young, courageous…

DOLORES IBÁRRURI: LA PASIONÁRIA

“ […] No os olvidaremos, y, cuando el olivo de la paz florezca, entrelazado con los laureles de la victoria de la República española, ¡volved!…

Volved a nuestro lado, que aquí encontraréis patria los que no tenéis patria, amigos, los que tenéis que…

Give Peace a Chance — Willy Brandt

This text tells the story of Willy Brandt, who was born in 1913 in Lübeck with the name Herbert Ernst Karl Frehm. As a young men he became involved in several socialistic youth organizations. In 1930 he joins the SPD (Social Democratic Party of Germany) which he left…

The Dilemma of our Solidaric Values

It is very common in this day and age to talk about immigration and refugees. These are the two terms I will consequently use in this article even though sometimes in papers and in common speech other terms are used. In addition to this I would also like to clearly…

Where did it go wrong for Clinton?

Donald Trump will be the 45th President of the United States. A few days ago when saying this, people would have declared you mad. Hillary Clinton, the nominee for the Democratic party, was seen as favorite to succeed President Barack Obama. Trump was a clown, a…