The Defence Investment Plan was Keir Starmer’s parting gift to his successor. And like everything Starmer did, it is part ineffective, part downright dangerous…
Leonardo Helicopters has won the government contract to build the MoD’s New Medium Helicopter in February.
Keir Starmer and his government do not defend Britain. They do not act in our interests but cynically pretend that they do…
25 June 2025
An alternative defence review challenges assumptions about the necessity of increasing militarisation. Jobs in defence are not the answer to industrial decline.
4 June 2025
Since he became prime minister, Keir Starmer has toured the world talking war and preparing for war, moving back closer to the EU. This is not in Britain’s interest. He says the defence review will regenerate industry, but his government is doing the opposite.
8 May 2025
A proposed security pact with the EU to be signed at the EU summit on 19 May will subordinate Britain’s defence interests to those of the EU. The Labour government calls this a “reset” in relations with the EU, but it’s far more extensive, and damaging.
4 April 2025
The idea of conscription keeps returning. The ruling class wants to make the idea acceptable. The defence of Britain is a far wider matter and workers need to ask questions about that.
Three years after Russia invaded Ukraine, and after decades of US meddling in that country, there is no peace in the region. Britain should stay out and focus on the needs of our own country.
Seafarers supporting the Royal Navy have stepped up their fight against attacks on their pay and conditions.
9 June 2023
Workers at Rolls-Royce plc have rejected the company’s pay offer. They are considering their next step in the face of obstructive tactics by the company.
13 January 2023
Up to 440 British steel jobs are at risk as the government fails to exploit the opportunities presented by Brexit, fails to deal with massive increase in energy costs to industry, and betrays Britain’s steel workers.
29 November 2022
The government has failed to protect Newport Wafer Fab, Britain’s biggest silicon chip maker, putting a vital part of our technological infrastructure at risk.
Unite has called on the government to prioritise British jobs and industries when tendering for defence contracts.
Discussion meeting (via Zoom): Global Britain - a green light for aggression?
Global Britain is the government’s new watchword. It’s meant to present a shift in policy from commitment to the EU – but is it simply handing the direction of foreign policy over to the US, and making the world a less safe place?
18 September 2021
The USA, Britain and Australia announced a new security pact on 15 September. Known as AUKUS, it is intended to set the direction and focus of Britain’s foreign and security policy for the long term.
The government calls it an integrated defence review, but it’s full of offensive policies that will give the green light to military aggression in all corners of the world…
28 November 2020
The government is promising that increased defence spending will help revive British shipbuilding. People will be demanding that it does.
1 June 2020
We are told the UK’s Brexit negotiators are insisting on sovereignty at every turn. That doesn’t seem to apply to defence…
Just five days after the referendum – with furious denials from the Remain campaign that the EU was planning a European army – the EU announced its new Global Strategy and began to create new military structures.
Brexit is about far more than trade and who makes our laws. It is also about who we owe loyalty to, who controls our defence and to whom our military owe allegiance. Inside the EU, that allegiance is above all to the EU…
The EU empire's surge towards a European army
LONDON Tuesday 19 November, 7.30 pm
Bertrand Russell Room, Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, London WC1R 4RL
Every proper empire needs an army, and the EU certainly wants to become an empire – and entangle us in it as well. Come and discuss. All welcome. Free entry.
While diverting our attention with a pretence of negotiating withdrawal from the EU, the government has been signing Britain up to the developing EU army – and paying a huge chunk of the cost…
Theresa May’s Withdrawal Treaty would require Britain to comply with EU defence directives and therefore with the European Court of Justice, which would supervise the treaty’s implementation.
The EU wants a single military procurement policy, coordinated by a newly empowered European Defence Agency.
If nothing else, the Ministry of Defence has a sense of humour: with only one month left of the 2017 calendar year, it designated 2017 as “The Year of the Royal Navy”.
The EU's idea of the role of a European military force has been expounded by "High Representative" Frederica Mogherini
Leaving the EU will also take us away from the advancing moves to form a European army – and make it all the more important that Britain maintains an independent military capability…
One of the glorified gunboats deployed to pursue a Russian aircraft carrier broke down while playing war games and had to be towed home.
Brexit weakens the drive to war
CPBML Public Meeting, Thursday 17 November, 7.30pm
Brockway Room, Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, London WC1R 4RL
Already, by voting Leave, we have weakened the EU bloc. Brexit brings the opportunity to kill off some of the EU’s military ambitions and enhance peace in Europe and the world. Come and discuss. All welcome.
Who cares if Russia sails its only aircraft carrier through the English Channel (or La Manche if you sit on the other coast)?
