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People looking at a combat aircraft at an arms fair

Press releases

No to Farnborough War-show!

30th July 2022

Protests meet unwelcome return of aviation arms fair.

Dabke dancers in solidarity with Palestine at the DSEI arms fair in London, September 2019

Blogs

Thank you for your support in 2019

20th December 2019

Thank you for every petition you signed, every gift you gave, every action you took part in this year. Here are some of the year’s highlights in our fight together for a more just and peaceful world. Reasons to feel hopeful in 2020 1. CAAT win at the Court of Appeal On 20

Blogs

Bubbles Not Bombs!

26th July 2018

On Saturday the 21 July 2018, a small group of activists for Stop The Arms Fair met outside the Farnborough International Airshow to participate in a peaceful family friendly action. The Farnborough International Airshow (FIA) hosted arms deals during the week of the 16-20 July. On the weekend, it held a public "family friendly" weekend,

Saudi Arabia has bombed refugee camps, weddings and hospitals in Yemen. Yet the UK government will be courting the regime at a major international arms fair in Farnborough next week. War starts here. Let's stop it here. Day of action Monday 11 July. #WarStartsHere

Blogs

Farnborough 2016: War starts here. Let’s stop it here

14th July 2016

Monday 14th July 2016 was a day of protests against the Farnborough arms fair and the UK government’s support for arms sales. We put together this Storify to show how the day unfolded. https://storify.com/caat/farnborough-war-starts-here-let-s-stop-it-here

Blogs

The Usual Suspect: Science Museum to host Farnborough reception again next week.

5th July 2016

Amy Clark-Bryan writes about the upcoming protest against the Science Museum. For the second time the Science Museum will be hosting the official Farnborough International reception. The last time the Science Museum hosted the reception for the arms fair in 2014 it was met with activists with one clear

Blogs

Let’s talk about ‘legitimacy’, Science Museum

18th July 2014

The Science Museum justified its plans to host a ‘welcome reception’ for arms dealers from Farnborough International by telling us that Farnborough International was a ‘legitimate organisation’. So I went to Farnborough this week and saw what ‘legitimate’ looks like.

A protester holds a CAAT placard saying "You can't do this in Riyadh".

Blogs

Don’t let Saudi Arabia get away with it!

5th April 2013

The news from Saudi Arabia that the authorities intend to surgically paralyse a young man as a judicial punishment has led to worldwide revulsion. The logic behind the punishment is that ten years earlier Ali al-Khawahir had stabbed a friend in the back resulting in his paralysis and therefore should

Image: credit Geoff Woolf

Blogs

UK arming Bahrain as violence continues

14th February 2013

On this day, two years ago, a group of Bahraini citizens gathered at the “Pearl Roundabout” to call for democratic freedoms and equal rights for the majority Shia population. They were part of the “Arab Spring”, the wave of protests that swept the region in 2011. The ruling regime responded with violence. Peaceful