https://www.german-foreign-policy.com/en/news/detail/10449 -> "Austerity and militarisation International anti-war conference in London attracts 3,000 activists. Spending on the arms build-up is dismantling social welfare systems. Protests grow louder across Europe. EU imposes draconian sanctions on individuals. LONDON/PARIS/BRUSSELS (our own report) – A new movement against the unprecedented militarisation across Europe is gaining momentum as international protests widen and anti-war conferences set the resistance agenda. On 14 June, some 12,000 people took to the street in Brussels under the banner ‘Welfare, not Warfare!’ in response to massive rearmament programmes. Social welfare systems are being dismantled across Europe to finance militarisation. The Brussels demonstration was followed on Saturday by a major international anti-war conference in London, attended by nearly 3,000 people from Europe, North America and the Middle East. The discussion highlighted the West’s brutal war policies and the dramatic collapse of healthcare, education and pensions. “Austerity and militarisation” are “two sides of the same coin”, declared the president of the British food industry union, the BFAWU. Further Europe-wide protests are planned for the coming autumn, including a day of action by dockworkers. But the upturn in protest has been accompanied by increased repression. Journalists, for example, are being targeted with EU sanctions on the grounds that they are allegedly collaborating with an enemy power – Russia. In this way, the EU is putting in place a flexible system of punishment that operates outside the rule of law in order to safeguard its war policy from criticism…..” H
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