Report: Labour Backs Plan to Use Army to Break NHS Strikes
by Polly Smythe
Badly paid soldiers could be used to scab on striking nurses, and Labour thinks this is a good idea.
Tag: army
Feature: How Putin Bribed Russia’s Peasant Army Into a War They Don’t Want
by Liza Smirnova & Alexey Sakhnin
Three-quarters of Russians are city-dwellers. Yet the army today looks almost the same as it did under the tsars, write Alexey Sakhnin and Liza Smirnova: peasants in overcoats.
The Bastani Factor: What the British Really Did to India
From famine to deindustrialisation and paying for the world’s largest army, there were no advantages in being part of the British Empire. Aaron Bastani on what the British really did to India.
Opinion: Labour and the Tories Have Reduced Veterans to Instruments in the Culture War
by Joe Glenton
Veterans like Joe Glenton are often instrumentalised by culture war politicians. Labour's provisional new PR strategy and the death of Captain Tom have made this clearer than ever.
Explainers: Is the Army Fascist?
Afghanistan veteran and author Joe Glenton examines the recent pictures of Tommy Robinson seen posing with young squaddies and asks “Is the British Military a far right organisation?”
‘This Is Belonging’: How the Army Stole Utopia
by Maddy Ridgley
A hypocritical and dangerous new recruitment drive by the British army promises working class men an escape from the loneliness and isolation of neoliberalism, using Instagram style ads and ideas of utopia taken from the anti-capitalist left.