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Don’t just oppose war, oppose the arms industry
RAE STREET recommends a useful guide that scotches the misguided belief that the arms industry is needed for the economy and jobs
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Monstrous Anger of The Guns – How The Global Arms Trade Is Ruining The World & What We can do About it
Rhona Michie, Andrew Feinstein and Paul Rogers, Pluto Press, £12.99
THE title of the book is taken from Wifred Owen’s poem Anthem For Doomed Youth: “What passing-bells for these who die like cattle? Only the monstrous anger of the guns.”
On September 16 2024 the Morning Star commented that “opposition to war is too vague: we need to oppose the arms industry itself.” This book, sponsored by the Peace and Justice Project, provides us with a tool to do just that.
In the opening preface, Jeremy Corbyn states: “We live in an age of rapid armament, rising geopolitical tensions, and growing division between the super-rich and the more than a billion people who suffer poverty, hunger and reduced life prospects.”
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