Coalition for Peace through Security

The Coalition for Peace through Security (CPS) was active in opposing the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament in the 1980s.

According to Brian Crozier, the CPS was set up in imitation of the Coalition for Peace through Strength, active in the US during the Carter Administration:

In Britain, a small group of young men, one of them an American, set up a matching 'Coalition for Peace through Security'. They included Edward Leigh, a young barrister who went on to become an enthusiastically Thatherite MP, and a gifted young man named Julian Lewis. Introduced to me by Norris McWhirter, Dr Lewis became the 61's leading activist in Britain, notably as the scourge of Monsignor Bruce Kent and the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament.

The CPS and the Committee for the Free World jointly published The Peace Movement and the Soviet Union by Vladimir Bukovsky, with a foreword by Winston Churchill MP.

Duuring the 1983 general election, CPS activist Tony Kerpel designed a poster attacking Labour leader Michael Foot of appeasement. it was entitled "The Guilty Men" playing on Foot's 1940 book, attacking pre-World War Two appeasement.

Crozier briefed Mrs Thatcher on the work of the CPS at a meeting in February 1985.

The CPS briefed MPs and members of the House of Lords ahead of debates on defence and foreign affairs. After one such briefing on 23 April 1985, Lord Orr-Ewing named a number of Labour MPs and trade unionists linked to the World Peace Council under parliamentary privilege.