CLYDEBANK Trades Union Council took the case for welfare, not warfare, into the heart of Dumbarton on Wednesday.

Speakers at the Concorde Community Centre included Nadia Abdel-Hady of the Gaza Genocide Emergency Committee, who brought home the brutal impact of Britain’s war economy on the children of Gaza.

The Red Paper Collective’s Vince Mills pointed out that, despite government claims, the Prime Minister’s £32 billion arms spending spree would generate little in the way of jobs.

Nathan Hennebry of the GMB Scotland’s young workers’ committee backed CND Scotland’s calls for a “just transition” for workers out of the war economy.

Contrasting ballooning warfare spending with the recent closure of Clydebank Women’s Aid, for want of £45,000, despite a 50 per cent increase in sexual assault, Dawn Brennan of Clydebank Women Supporting Women said: “If they can do this to women’s aid, no-one is safe.

“As humanity in our elected reps reduces, and communities are ruled with bureaucracy rather than care and humanity, the choice will be death and destruction for profit — local, nationally, and internationally.”