bokomslag The British Left and the Defence Economy
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The British Left and the Defence Economy

Keith Mc Loughlin

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  • 232 sidor
  • 2022
Forty years before COVID-19, socialists in Britain campaigned for workers to have the right to make socially useful products, from hospital equipment to sustain the NHS to affordable heating systems for the impoverished elderly. This movement held one thing responsible above all else for the nations problems: the burden of defence spending. In the middle of the Cold War, the left put a direct challenge to the defence industry, the Labour government and trade unions. The response it received revealed much about a military-industrial state that prioritised the making and exporting of arms for political favour and profit. Looking at peace activism from the early 1970s to Labours landslide defeat in the 1983 general election, this book examines the conflict over the cost of Britains commitment to the Cold War and asserts that the wider left presented a comprehensive and implementable alternative to the stark choice between making weapons and joining the dole queue. -- .
  • Författare: Keith Mc Loughlin
  • Format: Inbunden
  • ISBN: 9781526144010
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 232
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2022-03-30
  • Förlag: Manchester University Press