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USDAW members have backed a call for the British armed forces to only be deployed in UN-sanctioned international conflicts in a close vote at the union’s annual conference yesterday.
The motion was carried by 52.22 to 47.78 per cent on a card vote.
Moving the hotly debated proposal, Morrison’s North West delegate Billy Gray said recent wars in Afghanistan and Iraq had caused needless British troop deaths in wars based on lies.
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
In an address to the Communist Party’s executive at the weekend international secretary KEVAN NELSON explained why the communists’ watchwords must be Jobs not Bombs and Welfare not Warfare
LIZ PAYNE condemns how Labour backs war in Gaza and Ukraine, and massive funding for Trident’s nuclear bombs, when billions are needed just to restore public services