United against militarism!
JVL Introduction
This article looks at the connections between the drivers of population flows – the desire to escape conflict, the adverse effects of climate change and the need to avoid persecution and human rights violations – and the militarisation we are seeing promoted by the US and its allies.
Writer Carol Turner notes how anti-war coalitions, like Stop ReArm Europe, are forming as a new generation of peace campaigners take action on the streets and seek to change the public dialogue.
As part of this process, CND is holding a full day conference – Stop Nuclear Expansion: How to Reverse the War Drive – in London this Saturday. Themes include European rearmament, the Ukraine war, the defence jobs myth, militarism in education, the rise of the far right, and a climate breakdown workshop with CND’s newly elected Vice Chair Murad Qureshi. Click here to register.
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This article was originally published by Labour Hub on Wed 19 Nov 2025. Read the original here.
European rearmament and the drive to war
Carol Turner previews this Saturday’s upcoming CND Conference.
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The military budget of the UK is already one of the biggest in the world.
No increase at all is needed.
At the same time as planning totally unjustified increases in military spending, the government plans to cut back spending on vaccination programmes in developing countries. This means that people will die as a result of a conscious decision by this government.
Utterly shameful!
The best way to push back against rearmament and military spending is to expose the Big Lies of the fascists and their media chums running the show and manipulating hundreds of millions of people. And the most effective way to do that is to put leaflets together (A4 x 4 or 6 sides, and held together with a paper clip) and stick them through people’s doors, and, right at the end of the leaflet, in bold, it would say (as I’ve said before): PLEASE COPY AND/OR SCAN AND CIRCULATE TO FRIENDS AND RELATIVES AND WORK COLLEAGUES ETC.
The so-called elite and their propaganda machine have more-or-less complete and total control of the narrative (about whatever), and this is the only way we can potentially reach the tens of millions (in the UK alone) who have been duped and deceived by the war-mongering hate-mongering fear-mongering psychopaths who are intent on taking us down an ever-darker and darker road.
Someone distributing a hundred leaflets (through people’s doors) could potentially end up reaching ten thousand people, or even a hundred thousand. Or MORE! And not only would they be enlightened (in more ways than one!), but they would also be freed. And liberated!
PS And the last page could refer people to various articles, like the following one, posted on September 7th this year::
Israeli Soldier Testifies That on 10/7 Unit Received Order to Cancel Patrols Where Netanyahu-Backed Hamas Breached
https://discover.hubpages.com/politics/idf-soldiers-testimony-supports-ex-dia-director-gen-mike-flynns-contention-that-october-7-attack-was-an-inside-job
And this very long, detailed and comprehensive piece, posted in February last year:
What Really Happened on October 7?
https://libertarianinstitute.org/articles/what-really-happened-on-october-7/
And of course articles detailing the numerous foreign affairs experts and politicians (in the US) who – during the past thirty years or so – warned about the danger of expanding Nato further and further eastwards and Russia’s likely reaction. And, for example, about the ‘Gold Teeth’ falsehood (which I recalled just recently):
https://skwawkbox.org/2022/10/07/uk-media-claim-gold-teeth-show-russian-war-crime-germans-show-dentist-theyre-mine/