Poppy Day is very much alive in the UK but it’s co-sponsored by the arms industry. It’s as much a glorification of war as a call against it. There is no point raising ‘never again’ in people’s minds because we don’t get a say in it. Millions marched against the Iraq war and it made no difference.
We will not end wars but we can fight against the engines of war: the military industrial complex, the US empire, corruption in politics and Western dominance on the world stage.