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On 13th January, campaigners across the south west stopped business at Gooch and Housego’s (G&H) Artemis site in Plymouth. The action marks the start of a new campaign – Shut Down G&H – committed to shutting down a company that’s deeply complicity in Israel’s genocide in Gaza According to research by Campaign Against Arms Trade, G&H,

Here we share some of the highlights, as a reminder of all that you help us to achieve in 2024. It was the year we turned 50 and has been one of our busiest: more talks and media appearances given than ever and participating in many diverse, non-violent direct actions against the arms trade.

Business and Trade Committee Chair Liam Byrne concluded that he was not convinced by the Ministers’ explanation of how the exemption of F-35 jet parts from the recent suspension of around 30 arms licences to Israel, could be compatible with the UK’s legal obligations under the Arms Trade Treaty.  Components exported from the UK for

In December 2023 the largest single arms licence to Egypt on record was issued for military radars worth £79,347,022. Since British national and writer Alaa Abd el-Fattah was detained in September 2019 the UK has licensed at least £237 million worth of arms to Egypt.  Alaa’s mother, Laila Soueif, has been on hunger

This genocide is happening now. Our government is not acting and Palestinian people cannot wait for the conclusion of the court case. This is why we have released our updated interactive map to enable campaigners to take action against the genocide profiteers on their doorsteps.

Israel’s military attacks on Lebanon reinforce the urgent need for UK to halt all arms transfers to Israel Israel has killed almost 2000 people in Lebanon, and displaced 1/5 of the population. Some of Israel’s attacks may amount to war crimes – and the UK is still supplying Israel with weapons. We are joining 9

Following a year of impunity for genocide in Gaza, Israel’s devastating bombardment and ground invasion of Lebanon and the Iranian missile attack on Israel, is the escalation that was foreseen and warned of.  The West’s failure to hold Israel to account for its crimes, and failure to stop the

This level of influence is profoundly undemocratic and means that shareholder profits are protected at all costs  -  even if this means complicity in appalling war crimes.