Ahead of the Global Days of Action on Military Spending, running from April 10 to May 9, the Global Campaign on Military Spending – UK has issued the following statement …
Dr Stuart Parkinson with his look at the Budget figures
Military spending increase paid for with welfare cuts
The Government’s Defence Industrial Strategy launched by Defence Secretary, John Healey, states ‘National security is the foundation for growth’. Whilst Healey presents this strategy as a response to a much more unstable and insecure world, in fact it is Britain’s escalatory role across the world that is driving this very instability. Speaking at a London …
Government commitment to spending billions more on defence scrutinised
An extra £2.9bn for the military was announced by the Chancellor while the budget for peace building and overseas aid stalls
Ahead of the Budget – GCOMS-UK Chair Dr Stuart Parkinson wrote the following article which was first published on Labour Outlook When Rachel Reeves delivers the first Budget by a Labour Chancellor in 15 years, she will do so against the backdrop of a £22bn ‘black hole’ and with media reports suggesting that £40bn in …
GCOMS-UK has been on the road over the past month, taking our message on cutting military spending to Conferences organised by supporting organisations and engaging with peace activists on the urgent need for action. With UK military spending currently running at more than £100,000 every minute, and the Labour Government committed to increase this by …
