Free Download Keith Mc Loughlin, "The British left and the defence economy: Rockets, guns and kidney machines, 1970-83"
English | ISBN: 1526144018 | 2022 | 232 pages | PDF | 4 MB
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 nation's 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.