Another Munich Security Conference. Another platform for the masters of war and genocide to issue blood-curdling threats to their own citizens and to the world.
The divisions, open enmities, and splits between the leaders of over 60 states and 50 international bodies gathered at the Hotel Bayerischer Hof in Munich are on full display this week. Chancellor Merz mocks Keir Starmer’s desperate attempts to rejoin the EU. Volodymyr Zelensky takes swipes at Hungary’s President Orban. Marco Rubio issues his very own ‘Lebensraum’ speech, promising a new US imperium to last a thousand years.
What the politicians agree on is that their enemy is at home. Their sights are trained on public spending in the G7 economies, and the EU and their clear goal is to replace their welfare states with warfare states.
Always eager to be the good pupil, Keir Starmer told world leaders who must know he has only weeks left as UK Prime Minister: “To meet the wider threat, it’s clear that we are going to have to spend more, faster.”
Starmer’s power play, intended to distract from his waning political authority by portraying himself as a decisive military strategist, is in reality an empty bluff. Like his previous pledges to increase UK military spending to 2.5% of GDP by April 2027 and 3% in the next parliament (an additional £17.3bn per year), it is made without parliamentary scrutiny or public debate. Last year, the UK military spending was 2.3% of GDP (around £66bn). Starmer has committed the UK as a Nato member to spend 3.5% of GDP on core defence by 2035 (around £90bn per year).
There is no political consensus in Britain for significant increases in military spending. Despite the constant diet of media confabulations about imminent military threats from Russia and China, there is widespread and deepening scepticism amongst the British public who can see that the greatest threat to world peace today is the United States of America and its broken NATO alliance.
The Communist Party calls for US bases out of Britain and Britain out of NATO. The real security that people need is the security against fuel and food poverty, homelessness and poor housing, continuing climate degradation and the threat of a war between nuclear-armed states, which is being escalated by the leaders of NATO as they try to paper over the cracks in their military alliance.
Communist Party members will be supporting the national demonstration and rally ‘Stop British Nuclear Jets!’ called by Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament on Saturday 28 February 2026 (1-3pm) at RAF Marham near Kings Lynn.
Executive Committee
Communist Party of Britain
Monday 16th February 2026
London
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