As a Green Party MEP, Caroline Lucas prioritises the needs of people and planet over the interests of governments and big business – and that means working for peace and security. She has marched for peace and played a prominent role in taking direct action for peace and against nuclear weapons.
Caroline has been one of the leading lights of the UK’s anti-war movement, undertaking fact-finding peace missions to Iraq - just weeks before the start of the illegal and immoral invasion – and to Israel and Palestine, where she witnessed the construction of the so-called ‘security wall’ and joined EU monitors observing the January 2005 Palestinian Presidential election. She is a Co-President of the cross-party Peace Initiatives Intergroup in the European Parliament . As an MEP she has been able to demand answers and action from the British Government, ensure existing legislation is respected, and promote the European Union’s role as a force for peace both within and beyond its borders.
Caroline also has a long history of opposing nuclear weapons at both local and European levels. She has been involved with the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament for many years, and was an active member of the Snowball Campaign against the US bases. She has spoken at numerous rallies against nuclear weapons and taken part in the march to Aldermaston Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE), calling for nuclear disarmament. She has also been arrested during a peaceful blockade of the Trident nuclear submarine base in Scotland.
Below you can read Caroline’s correspondence on peace and anti-nuclear issues, download copies of reports, speeches and articles, as well as view press releases on a range of topics.
Image: Caroline speaking at a Stop the War rally in Trafalgar Square
Press Releases
Green Euro-MP Scoops ‘Ethical Politician Of The Year’ Award
- 3.6.2009
Green MEP Calls For Urgent Political Solution To Conflict On Return From Euro-Parliament Visit To Gaza
- 2.3.2009
Israeli Attack On UN Agency In Gaza Shows ‘Blatant Disregard’ For Negotiations - And Palestinian Human Rights, Says Green Euro-MP
- 15.1.2009
EU Must Hold Israel To Its Agreements
- 5.1.2009
Government Support For Trident Renewal Is ‘Dangerous Call To Arms Race’, Says Euro-MP At Kent CND 50th Anniversary
- 18.11.2008
Green MEPs Showcase Their Record on Protecting the Rights Of Humans and Animals - online PDF leaflets
- 3.9.2008
Green Euro-MP Up In Arms At US Military’s ‘Defence’ Bases On UK Soil
- 3.7.2008
Green MEPs Speak Out Against US Missile Defence System Ahead Of CND Protest
- 20.6.2008
Green MEPs Lead On Vote Win In European Parliament Calling For Ban On Depleted Uranium Weapons
- 22.5.2008
Euro-MP Calls For End To ‘Illegal, Immoral and Irrelevant’ Nuclear Weapons At 50th Anniversary Aldermaston March
- 25.3.2008
Green MEP Calls For International Action On Tibet
- 20.3.2008
Green MEP To Call For End To ‘Illegal And Immoral’ Foreign Policy At 5th Anniversary ‘Stop The War’ March
- 13.3.2008
Caroline Lucas MEP Condemns Latest Violence in Gaza and Slams US Complicity
- 4.3.2008
MEP Calls For Afghan Troop Withdrawal At Brighton Meeting
- 13.2.2008
Green Euro-MP Slams ‘Immoral and Illegal’ Siege Of Palestinian Population
- 24.1.2008
Green Euro-MP Slams Brown’s Nuclear Ambitions as Hutton Makes Energy Announcement
- 10.1.2008
South East MEP Says Israel Must End Occupation Of Palestine
- 11.5.2007
South East MEP In Palestine To Meet President Abbas
- 27.4.2007
Euro-MP Leads Debates On Nuclear Weapons And Food Security At Green Party Spring Conference
- 20.3.2007
MEP Calls For ‘Technology Transfer’ To Develop Iran’s Potential in Renewable Energy
- 20.3.2007
Green Euro-MP Condemns Decision To Update UK’s Nuclear WMDs As ‘Illegal, Immoral And Obscenely Expensive’
- 14.3.2007
Euro-MPs Debate Legality Of Trident Renewal, As Commission Warns Of Proliferation Threat
- 13.3.2007
Green MEP Demands EU Action On Arms Exports
- 18.1.2007
Leading MEP In Police Custody After Arrest At Anti-Nuclear Demo
- 8.1.2007
Replacing Trident Will Break Law, Threaten Security And Cost Billions, Warns MEP
- 4.12.2006
Lucas Calls for Return Of Troops From Iraq At Protest Rally Outside RAF Base
- 25.11.2006
Euro-MP Calls On EU To Suspend Israel Trade Deal At Portsmouth Palestine Meeting
- 25.11.2006
MEP Demands EU Probe Into Israel’s Use Of New Uranium Weapons In Lebanon
- 8.11.2006
Lucas Demands UN Action On Cluster Bombs Ahead Of Treaty Review Conference
- 19.10.2006
MEPs Back Green Call To Banish All US Nuclear Arms From EU
- 13.10.2006
Green Euro-MP Demands Boycott On All Arms Deals With Israel
- 11.10.2006
Caroline Lucas To Meet With Peace Activists To Call For Closure Of Brighton Arms Factory
- 12.9.2006
Euro-MP Calls For International Ban On Cluster Bombs
- 6.9.2006
Greens Back Call For Lebanon Ceasefire In Letter To Blair
- 26.7.2006
Euro-MP Joins Anti-Nuclear Blockade At Aldermaston
- 8.7.2006
MEP Calls For Public Inquiry Into Nukes Factory
- 19.1.2006
Green MEP Re-elected To CND National Council
- 20.10.2005
‘Scrap Trident’ Urges Euro-MP At CND Conference
- 31.8.2005
EU Call For Ban On Depleted Uranium Weapons
- 21.6.2005
MEP Addresses International Peace Conference And Demands Wthdrawal Of U.S. Nukes
- 4.3.2005
‘Iraq Violence Fuelled By Globalisation’ – MEP
- 7.2.2005
Green MEP Renews Call For Nuclear Arms Ban
- 5.1.2005
Letters and Replies
Correspondence about Palestine and the Middle East
- 15.11.2009
Correspondence about Nuclear Weapons
- 8.4.2009
Correspondence about Depleted Uranium
- 9.1.2009
Correspondence about Brighton based arms manufacturer EDO
- 23.7.2007
Correspondence about International Conflicts
- 23.4.2006
In the Parliament
Written Questions - Palestine
- 10.2.2009
Resolutions - Palestine
- 12.1.2009
Resolutions - Weapons
- 14.5.2008
Written Questions - Weapons
- 1.4.2008
Resolutions - Palestine
- 13.2.2008
Written Questions - Nuclear Weapons
- 3.6.2007
Resolution - Iraq
- 13.2.2007
Written Declaration - US Nuclear Weapons on EU Soil
- 24.6.2006
Articles
Comment is free, Guardian: “Afghanistan: time to go”, 25 November 2009
- 25.11.2009
***Gaza Needs Trust, Not Just Aid - Caroline writing for the Guardian’s Comment is Free***
- 3.3.2009
No green light for occupiers - Jewish Socialist magazine, Spring 2008
- 1.5.2008
** WEB EXCLUSIVE: No Middle Ground In The Middle East ** - 5 February 2008
- 5.2.2008
Nuclear Fall Out - New Statesman Online - 10 January 2008
- 10.1.2008
Lebanon - Position Statement August 25th 2006
- 25.8.2006
Lebanon - Position Statement August 8th 2006
- 8.8.2006
Speeches
Stop the War - Gaza
- 13.3.2009
Speech at Aldermaston March - 50th Anniversary
- 24.3.2008
Plenary - Iraq
- 12.3.2008
(Listen & Watch) Caroline on Trident
- 8.2.2008
Plenary - Palestine
- 3.5.2007
(Listen & Watch) No Attacks on Iran
- 25.3.2007
Trident - Various speeches from 2001 onwards
- 23.3.2007
(Listen & Watch) No Trident and Troops Out of Iraq Rally
- 24.2.2007
Don’t Attack Iran - Stop the War Assembly, March 2007
- 2.1.2007
Plenary - A World Without Landmines
- 6.7.2005
Plenary - Nuclear Arms In North Korea and Iran
- 8.3.2005
Plenary - Nuclear Disarmament
- 11.2.2004
