For the occupiers of Faslane Peace Camp, site-sitting over the festive period, action and awareness are needed now more than ever to pull us back from the brink of a nuclear winter just one year before the 80th anniversary of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings. READ MORE: Forty years of Faslane: The anti-nuclear peace camp at Trident's door “I don’t like to celebrate this part of the year,” said Jag, a 63-year-old former infantry soldier, spending his first Christmas around the candle-lit communal area of the world’s longest-running peace camp. “People get caught up buying all kinds of things they don’t need, and the important stuff gets swept aside.
“We are a legitimate target now. "If the world continues the way it is with arms acceleration and proxy wars, there are only two possible outcomes – we abolish war, or war abolishes us.” Dissatisfied with a stint working in insurance claims that followed his service in the Reconnaissance Corps, Jag found home six miles outside Helensburgh earlier this year at the UK’s last remaining nuclear protest camp.
Members of the encampment established in 1982 have previously performed lock-on protests, broken into a control room and even mounted a submarine at the Argyll and Bute naval base – home to Britain’s Trident nuclear programme. “The trouble with places like this or anything in the activist world is that stuff goes out of fashion," Jag said. "People talk about slow, incremental change and how violence is .
