London Socialist Historians seminar Mon 24th Oct. The British Left & the Defence Economy
Mon 24th October 5.30pm. Keith McLoughlin. The British Left and the Defence Economy: competing visions of social democracy.
Kevin presented some of the research involved in his new book (MUP 2022)
Britain spends as much on defence as the US and China. Not so much in terms of people but on ‘toys for the boys’ (and some girls nowadays). This however is not a new thing. Since 1945 Keith McLoughlin argues that defence spending has been key to the British economy.
The left has often been anti-war but at the same time, as at the TUC in Brighton this year, trade unions have backed defence related manufacturing jobs.
A history of the present that demands attention
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