Fleet auxiliary fight escalates
Seafarers supporting the Royal Navy have stepped up their fight against attacks on their pay and conditions.
Defence
Defence
Rolls-Royce pay and hours claim stalled
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.
Government again fails to put British steel jobs first
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.
Semiconductor industry left hanging after sale order
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.
Defence: Priority call
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?
Discussion meeting (via Zoom): Global Britain - a green light for aggression?
Tuesday 5 October 2021 19:00
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?
AUKUS: the path to war
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.
Talking defence, planning wars
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…
Pledge to rebuild British shipbuilding
28 November 2020
The government is promising that increased defence spending will help revive British shipbuilding. People will be demanding that it does.
Don't let them bargain away defence!
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…
No sovereignty without 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.
Every empire needs an army – especially the EU
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
The EU empire's surge towards a European army
Tuesday 19 November 2019 19:30 to 21:00
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.
Who voted to hand over the army to the EU?
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…
May's defence surrender
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.
Brussels eyes procurement
The EU wants a single military procurement policy, coordinated by a newly empowered European Defence Agency.
The ever-shrinking Navy
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 military vision
The EU's idea of the role of a European military force has been expounded by "High Representative" Frederica Mogherini
Independence requires a defence industry
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…
Rattling sabres - but rustily
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
Brexit weakens the drive to war
Thursday 17 November 2016 19:30
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.
Defence begins at home
Who cares if Russia sails its only aircraft carrier through the English Channel (or La Manche if you sit on the other coast)?
Protect our defence industry!
One of the reasons for the need for more apprentices is Britain’s need to maintain its defence capability.