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The British Left and the Defence Economy - Rockets, Guns and Kidney Machines, 1970-83 (Hardcover)
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The British Left and the Defence Economy - Rockets, Guns and Kidney Machines, 1970-83 (Hardcover)
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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. Looking at peace activism
from the early 1970s to Labour's landslide defeat in the 1983
general election, this book examines the conflict over the cost of
Britain's 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. --
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