UK Transit Union: CANCEL MILITARY AID TO UKRAINE - RMT*
Reprinted from The Socialist Correspondent on Facebook*
The RMT transport union has called for Britain to stop giving military aid to Ukraine.
A motion titled ‘The Labour Movement Stands for Peace’ was submitted by the union’s Paddington branch, urging Labour ministers to “commit to work for a diplomatic, negotiated, lasting peace settlement”.
Passed at the RMT’s annual meeting last week in Manchester, it said: “Despite the defeat of the Conservative government by the Labour Party at the 2024 general election, Britain continues to play a belligerent role in international relations by supplying British-made weapons, military support, credit and billions of pounds in public funding in trying and failing to achieve a military defeat for Russia in Ukraine.
“We reject the politics of lowering living standards to fund a policy of unending and escalating war that last year took us to the brink of nuclear Armageddon.”
A spokesman for the RMT said:
“The motion calls for a de-escalation of war zones across the world from Gaza, Yemen and Iran as well as Ukraine. As many commentators from Left and Right have commented, pouring £billions into the Ukraine war zone will not create the conditions for peace negotiations but simply make them harder to achieve.”
RMT General Secretary Eddie Dempsey said: “I fully agree with the union’s position.”
In 2024 former RMT General Secretary Mick Lynch criticised the EU for stirring up trouble in Ukraine prior to Russia’s military intervention. In an interview with the New Statesman, he said:
“There were a lot of corrupt politicians in Ukraine. And there were an awful lot of people [in Ukraine] playing with Nazi imagery, and wanting to go back to the [Second World] War…”
According to official reports, the UK's military support package for Ukraine in 2025 is expected to reach a record-breaking 4.5 billion pounds (6.2 billion dollars).
*The RMT is the National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers.
This post is based on the reports in the links below:
* https://www.telegraph.co.uk/.../cancel-military-aid-to.../
* https://tass.com/world/1982929
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