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TUC backs sending ‘moral and material aid,’ including arms, to Ukraine
An explosion erupts from an apartment building after a Russian army tank fired on it in Mariupol, Ukraine, March 11, 2022
THE TUC voted overwhelmingly today to support a composite motion backing the provision of “moral and material aid,” including weapons, to Ukraine.
Moving the motion, GMB president Barbara Plant said Ukraine was fighting for its survival in the face of a brutal Russian onslaught.
“Putin intends to extinguish democracy and fundamental labour rights,” she said, arguing that the denial to Ukraine of the means of self-defence would be like the arms embargo that crippled the Spanish republic in the 1930s.
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