Local and national organisations are uniting to show their opposition to Armed Forces Day, due to be held in Falmouth on 24th June.
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Tag: Arms Trade
Students occupy Lancaster University in protest against collusion with the arms trade
Wednesday night, students protesting the University’s deep ties with arms companies occupied the Margaret Fell building, which contains the l…
Palestine Action disrupts exclusive arms industry dinner
While weapons industry representatives, government figures and other arms trade stakeholders convened in London for the TechUK’s ‘Defence W…
Students occupy University of Sheffield to protest involvement in arms trade
A group of students at the University of Sheffield have occupied the Diamond (a prominent engineering building) to protest the University’s r…
Palestine Action: A watershed victory
In The Condition of the Working Class in England (1845), Friederich Engels describes the good folk of Manchester and those unfortunate souls that t…
Double Standards
I’ve been demonstrating against the bi-annual arms fair in the borough of Newham every two years since 2010, principally because it’s too easy …
New evidence reveals six-year history of UK supplies to Turkish killer drones
Adair Ltd announced this week it has ceased supplies of fuel components to the Turkish company Baykar Makina after discovering these had been used …
Protests as Saudi arms ship docks in Essex
Activists from Campaign Against the Arms Trade (CAAT) staged a banner drop today to protest the arrival of the Saudi Arabian arms ship the Bahri Ya…
Brighton: local people shut down weapons factory to stop war crimes
Local people in Brighton have blocked shipments from a Brighton arms factory EDO MBM Technology Ltd today in order to stop its ongoing supply of wa…
Activists face trial following two-day action at Kent-based arms factory
Seven anti-militarist activists are due to attend Folkestone Magistrates Court tomorrow to enter their pleas in an aggravated trespass case relatin…
BREAKING: Protesters against Turkish invasion blockade arms companies in Filton
Activists have staged a lock-on outside BAE Filton (South Gloucestershire) this morning.
A street view of DSEI 2019
Tanya Jiang writes on the what happened at the front line of this year’s clash between weapon-mongers trying to flog their murderous devices …
Protest as arms firm EDO prepares first expansion in 15 years
The EDO MBM factory in Brighton has produced weapons parts for countries including Saudi Arabia, Israel, Turkey and the US, enabling human rights a…
Posters go up as DSEi arms fair nears
As the September 4th start date of DSEI, the world’s biggest arms fair, edges closer, early actions to draw attention to protests against the…
As Yemen starves, Britain is arming Saudi bombing runs
Campaigners are challenging British complicity in the Yemen carnage, writes Campaign Against Arms Trade spokesperson Andrew Smith.
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