Say No To Defence Spending!

Now’s the time to say no to defence spending, whether it’s on the streets, or in our workplaces and unions.

The TUC Congress last month narrowly approved a resolution instructing the general council to “campaign for immediate increases in defence spending.” STWC lobbied against this dangerous and damaging decision, coming within a few votes of defeating it and garnering much individual support.

As STWC’s Deputy President, Andrew Murray notes; “The movement must realise that the price of a campaign to increase defence spending will literally end up being paid in blood around the world.

Foreign policy and defence strategy are class issues just as much as the domestic agenda. The elite that crashed the economy in 2008 and gave us years of austerity is now trying to force ordinary people to pay for a cost-of-living crisis of capitalism’s making. This will only make things worse.”