Fight for a socialist alternative to war and capitalism
Governments spent a record-high $4,220 billion on military expenditure in 2023. The figure for 2024 is set to be even bigger. For what?
So far an estimated 233,000 people have been killed in conflicts this year. There has been a 300% increase in bombing over the last five years. Overwhelmingly working-class and poor people suffer, their lives and livelihoods taken away from them because of the super-rich bosses’ pursuit of profit.
Keir Starmer’s Labour government continues to utter mealy-mouthed words warning Israel’s government not to ‘go too far’, while at the same time making excuses for the brutal slaughter of tens of thousands of Palestinians.
Billions is sent abroad as so-called ‘military aid’. It will do nothing to bring peace and stability for ordinary people, and isn’t intended to, but rather to try to bolster British capitalism’s ‘strategic interests’.
Our interests, those of the working class, have nothing in common with the bosses’ interests that Starmer’s government defends. The Labour government says it can’t find the money for a decent pay rise for health workers or teachers, or for pensioners freezing in their homes.
But the money is there! Evidenced by the vast military spending, and by the monster profits of the energy companies and others.
The fight for fully funded services and an end to war and national oppression will continue throughout 2025. Help us build and strengthen the working-class fightback. Join the Socialist Party to fight for a socialist world.
