Image of seven people, three in front four in back, in front of a court building, holding placards mostly saying "Not Guilty", one also saying "#StopDSEI", another saying "The arms trade is global, so is our resistance, #StopDSEI". Woman at front on left wearing a Palestinian scarf, raising clenched fist and cheering. Court building behind them.

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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

A crowd of campaigners outside the Ministry of Defence, home of UKDSE UKDSE

Merchants of Death Tour

  Earlier this month, London CAAT hosted their latest Merchants of Death Tour, a 2 mile walking tour visiting locations linked to the arms trade in London. They say, “We took an engaged and intrigued group of 30 people around some of the sinister sites of London and introduced them to some

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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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