The UK government chooses War over Climate
This contradiction between the drive to war and global cooperation to save ourselves from climate breakdown is becoming ever more stark.
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US recruits South Korea to help colonise and militarise space
The US has started an international arms race in space and, with its allies, it is expanding its military satellite network so it can have a view across all domains of war.
The US is building up military alliances – for its war drive against China
The US-led AUKUS military alliance – with the UK and Australia – is cranking up hostilities and inviting Japan into the anti-China military pact. The US is, in effect, creating an ‘Asian NATO’.
Britain’s foreign policy is now out of step with the global majority
Britain is ramping up military spending and promoting conflict. The global South is focused on peace and co-operation. The latter is the approach that is paying dividends.
Socialism and Ecological Survival
There is a connection between the threat of exterminism through climate breakdown and nuclear war preparations. Socialists need to campaign on this link in both movements.
Atomic bombing of Japan was not necessary to end WWII – U.S. government documents admit it
The nuclear strikes on Japan represented a political decision taken by the United States, aimed squarely at the Soviet Union; it was the first act of the Cold War.