The Spokesman

The magazine was founded in 1970 by the Nobel laureate Bertrand Russell,[1] and was edited for 40 years by the British left-wing MEP Ken Coates, who died in 2010.

[2] After Coates' death, The Independent wrote that the journal was "still flourishing".

[4] It is published in Nottingham by the Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation.

[4] The Spokesman features independent journalism on peace and nuclear disarmament, human rights and civil liberties, and contemporary politics.

[5] Contributors have included leading Western writers, journalists and intellectuals such as Robert Fisk, Noam Chomsky, Naomi Klein, John le Carré, Trevor Griffiths, Stuart Holland and Kurt Vonnegut.