Wages not weapons: Peace not war

Our education system, health, social and public services are being cut to pay for war.

Across the globe war cost the lives of millions of working people. Wars undermine our democratic and human rights and speeds up the ecological crisis.

Internationalism must be at the centre of trade unionism. The working class has nothing to gain and everything to lose by the poor and unemployed of one country killing and maiming the poor and unemployed of another.

At last year’s TUC conference delegates voted in support of a motion that set out a real alternative to increases in military spending.

UCU have tabled a motion at this year’s TUC conference that builds on the Wages not Weapons motion. It does so by advancing a vision of a lasting security based on decent jobs, quality public services, equality, climate action, democracy and peace.

We the undersigned support the UCU’s call:

  • for international solidarity and peace to be at the heart of the trade union movement
  • to build a campaign for sustained public investment in health, education, housing, social care, social security and climate action
  • to raise awareness of workers’ rights, including the right to conscientious objection
  • to oppose compulsory military service in the UK.

 

Wages not weapons: Peace not war

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Kuang-Hsu Chiang
 
UCU
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Joseph Browning
 
UCU
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Jean Stubbs
 
UCU
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Chris Lindsay
 
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Dominic Forrest
 
Ucu
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Annie Townend
 
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Karen Dring
 
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Anna Majewska
 
UCU
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Laura Richardson
 
UCU
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Alex Nicholas-Brown
 
UCU
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conor clarke
 
UCU
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Maria Vassilopoulos
 
UCU
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Paul Mackney
 
UCU (Former Joint General Secretary)
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Amy Brookes
 
UCU
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Alex Clarke
 
UCU
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Deborah Hardin
 
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Jim Kinchesh
 
UCU
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Neil Gavin
 
UCU
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Rachel Shanks
 
UCU
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Jon Hackett
 
Brunel UCU
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Gil Viry
 
UCU
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Mayuko Inagawa
 
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Julian Goodare
 
UCU
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Jenny Fairbrass
 
UCU
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Maisem Laabei
 
UCU
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Stanley Gaines
 
UCU
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Felicity Slocombe
 
UCU
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Emilia Ferraro
 
UCU
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Ted Spicer
 
UCU
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Sone Erikainen
 
UCU
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Omar Feraboli
 
Dundee UCU
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Grant Buttars
 
UCU
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Chanti Lee
 
UCU
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Usha Mani
 
UCU
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Jennifer Reilly
 
UCU
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Samantha Ford
 
UCU
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Umberto Albarella
 
UCU
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Omer Aijazi
 
UCU
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Andrew Tedder
 
UCU
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Peter Green
 
UCU
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Sam Morecroft
 
UCU
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Jack Davidson
 
UCU
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Alyson James
 
UCU
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Andy Moxley
 
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Gavin Schwartz-Leeper
 
UCU
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Becks Andrew
 
UCU
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Mike Forster
 
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Nathan Hennebry
 
GMB
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Nicola Pratt
 
UCU
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Mandy Brown
 
UCU
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Ellen Graubart
 
Unite Community
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Mary Winter
 
Unison
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Kevin Corran
 
UNISON
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Cormac Kelly
 
NEU
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CLIVE Haswell
 
UNITE
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Caroline Oreilly
 
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Winston Murray
 
PCS
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Carlo Morelli
 
UCU
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Naseef Qaimkhani
 
UCU
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Chas Berry
 
Napo
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Lou Hayton
 
NEU
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Ross Gibson
 
Strathclyde UCU
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Fred Behardien
 
UCU
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Inma Ridao Carlini
 
UCU
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Manus McGrogan
 
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Lisa Stampnitzky
 
UCU
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Dylan Mangan
 
UCU
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Umit Yildiz
 
UCU
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Yaar Dagan
 
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Annapurna Menon
 
UCU
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Elane Heffernan
 
UCU
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Mark Abel
 
UCU
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Christian Hogsbjerg
 
UCU Brighton
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Alison Gaughan
 
UCU
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Kate Howlin
 
NEU
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Clare Tsapparelli
 
NEU
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Jayanthi Lingham
 
UCU
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Lena Wånggren
 
UCU
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Jess Moriarty
 
UCU
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zaine ahmed
 
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Peter Squires
 
UCU
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Ian Hewitt
 
UCU
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Dave Langcaster
 
Unite
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Sean Wallis
 
UCU
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Ana Redondo
 
UCU Bedfordshire
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James Scott
 
Unite
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Regine Pilling
 
UCU
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Mark Raychell
 
NEU
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Barbara Labiejko
 
UCU
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George Gray
 
UCU
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Ellen Owens
 
UCU
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Esther McIntosh
 
UCU
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Steve West
 
PCS
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Stuart Ramsay
 
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Carol Ramsay
 
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Peter Hallward
 
Kingston UCU
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Michela Trentin
 
UCU
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susan fitzpatrick
 
UCU
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Lorna Aldred
 
Unison
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Matt Sewell
 
Unite
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Bethan Hughes
 
UCU
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Peter Evans
 
UCU
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Tanya Serisier
 
Ucu
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Marianna Fotaki
 
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Wojciech Dmochowski
 
UCU
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sean vernell
 
ucu
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Thomas Murphy
 
Unite
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Feyzi Ismail
 
Goldsmiths UCU
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Chris Webb
 
UCU