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Help stop the opening of UK skies to armed drones!

Artwork on Drones by Banksy   Our friends at Drone Wars say, “The MoD wants to base the UK new ‘Protector’ armed drones at Waddington near Lincolnshire and open a new centre there to train both RAF crews and other militaries to use armed drones. Beside the immense harm

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Business as usual – not just in Yemen

By Sam Perlo-Freeman, CAAT Research Coordinator The war in Yemen is a horrific example of how major arms exporters, chiefly the US and UK, have continued to arm countries engaged in a brutal and devastating conflict, namely Saudi Arabia and the UAE. But it is far from the only example, and such policies are not

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Brighton: No to the RAF Town Show, No to Enabling Genocide

Love and solidarity to campaigners in Brighton who said no to the “RAF Town Show” earlier this month (10-12 April). They were there to oppose the “family friendly” militarism of the show, and remind the public that the RAF has flown hundreds of reconnaissance missions over Gaza, in support of the Israeli genocide

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Guest blog: When Words Fail: UK Universities, Militarism and Genocide

UK universities are deeply entangled with the military-industrial complex. Yet these relationships are rarely examined openly, and even more rarely challenged from within— due to vested interests, lack of knowledge, or self-censorship. After two years of community organising, engagement across the university, and sustained investigation, we — the Palestine Solidarity Network at the University of

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