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The Stop the War Coalition panel at the beginning of the conference
THE trade union movement risks “sleepwalking into catastrophe” by mutely following a Tory government bent on escalating war with Russia, delegates at the first ever Stop the War Coalition trade union conference heard today.
Stop the War vice-chair and former Unite chief of staff Andrew Murray warned that the British government had the most aggressive stance of any world power on the war in Ukraine — with even the United States seeing more “nuance and dissent”.
By contrast, a cross-party consensus in Britain was pushing the war’s “continuation, exacerbation and extension” — and the TUC’s endorsement of more arms spending showed it failed to understand that “war is a class question and the working-class movement must stand against it,” he charged.
As Unison launches its Year of Women Workers, ANNIE COGAN-THOMAS argues that stronger organisation and collective bargaining are essential to winning equality
Witnessing a war of words at a meeting on tackling militarism at The World Transformed, BEN COWLES spoke to a union rep who is organising against war from inside the arms industry itself, to hear about worker-led solutions to ending weapons production
Investing the £75 billion slated for defence spending on a green new deal, healthcare and education would create jobs and help communities far more than weapons spending, argues UCU general secretary JO GRADY