Our economic system is broken – and unless we break with the government’s obsession with short-termist private profit, things are destined to get worse, warns Mercedes Villalba

AS THE 2024 election date approaches, Scottish CND and the wider Scottish peace movement are raising issues relating to nuclear weapons and military spending with candidates up and down the country.
Scottish CND has recently produced a summary of the position of some political parties on nuclear weapons issues.
The summary makes interesting reading.

While working people face austerity, arms companies enjoy massive government contracts, writes ARTHUR WEST, exposing how politicians exaggerate the Russian threat to justify spending on a sector that has the lowest employment multiplier


