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Over 10,000 people have called for the closure of DESO (Defence Export Services Organisation), a Government unit which exists to find sales for private arms companies. A petition received today by the Treasury contained signatures from throughout the UK, including prominent names such as economist Samuel Brittan, writer George Monbiot and comedian Mark Thomas.
Hey, I've been so busy lately that I forgot to tell you about this really cool campaigning success we had at Disarm UCL last week: Quick reminder: we are campaigning to get UCL to sell its disgraceful 1.5 million pounds worth of arms shares. We tried to get UCL Union support on this. And now
Noam Chomsky has become the latest academic to call on the academic publisher Reed Elsevier to end its role in the arms trade. 138 academics from 17 countries have written an open letter to Reed Elsevier, best known for publishing scientific and professional journals, demanding an end to the arms fairs it organises through
On Thursday 15th March I am giving a talk to the very active Bristol CAAT group. Do come along if you can – details are here. The subject is very topical – corruption. The title of my talk will be “the Ministry of Defence and the bribe culture: from active participation to passive complicity”. It
CAAT staff and supporters were down at the High Court yesterday. Some weeks ago one of Britain's leading arms companies, BAE Systems, got hold of a confidential CAAT document and wouldn't tell anyone how. Well – now they have to :). The High Court ruled yesterday that BAE Systems has to
The High Court has today ordered BAE Systems to produce a sworn affidavit divulging how they obtained a confidential and legally privileged document belonging to Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT). The document in question contained advice from CAAT’s solicitors on a planned judicial review of the decision to drop a corruption probe into BAE’s
As BAE Systems announced record profits today, Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT) pointed out that they were possible only because of Government subsidies for the arms trade. BAE announced an annual profit of over £1 billion in the last year, fuelled in part by increased sales of weapons to the USA to fight the
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