Joint Civil Society Statement – Defend the Right to Protest
Coming together in solidarity to resist the government's latest attempts to repress our right to protest.
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Undercover police spied on anti arms trade campaigners and exaggerated their threat to protect the arms industry
There are striking similarities between the exaggerated threats outlined in these documents with the justifications relied upon by this government to target protesters today.
58 Parliamentarians extremely concerned by apparent move towards “unblocking” arms licences to Israel
In the letter, led by Steve Witherden MP, Parliamentarians told Secretary of State Business and Trade Peter Kyle, they were “extremely concerned” by the Government’s apparent move towards “unblocking” the arms licenses to Israel it suspended in September 2024 and the transfer of new F-35s from a British air base. On 12th January 2026 in
Free them all – solidarity with Prisoners for Palestine!
Their resistance should inspire all of us to continue the fight against the companies complicit in genocide and to refuse to submit to state repression.
Joint Civil Society Statement on UK Arms Licences to Israel
We, as civil society organisations campaigning to hold the government accountable to international law and UK rules on arms exports, are appalled by the Government’s movement towards unblocking arms licenses to Israel. The Government’s position was already untenable, temporarily suspending approximately 30 of 350 arms licenses to Israel, amounting to only
CAAT Statement: Court of Appeal refuses Al-Haq permission to appeal regarding arms licences to Israel
On 12th November the Court of Appeal refused Al-Haq/GLAN permission to appeal a High Court judgment from June dismissing their application for judicial review of the exemption, or “carve-out”, made by the Labour government to allow the UK to continue supplying F-35 combat aircraft components to
British-produced military equipment used in US attacks on Venezuela
Solidarity with the Venezuelan people! CAAT condemns recent US attacks on Venezuela and draws attention to the role of the British arms industry in this aggression.
The United States: the UK’s second biggest arms customer
Unpacking the heavy integration between British and American arms industries, and challenging the idea that there is nothing wrong with exporting weapons to democratic, western countries like the United States.
