Fighting The Arms Trade: An Inside Job?
"You're just a war criminal,” the heckler said, appearing seemingly from nowhere.
“If you’re working inside the arms industry, that makes you a war criminal. You’re complicit with imperialism,” she said, directing her ire at the Unite union rep sitting next to me.
“How am I?” he asked as the rest of the table fell into an awkward silence.
The rep was one of the speakers at a panel discussion at The World Transformed (TWT) Festival 2025 in Manchester last Saturday, focused on opposing militarism.
His name and employer did not appear on TWT’s programme listing for the event, and so we’d better keep his identity anonymous here too.