Organising to Stop DSEI: It Starts Here
Our fight to stop the DSEI arms fair is inextricably linked with other intersecting struggles for justice – struggles that It Starts Here called to put front and centre of our action in 2019.
News
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Wars, occupation, oppression, and corruption fuel a surging Middle East arms race
New SIPRI arms transfers data shows small overall increase in global trade, but huge increase in sales to the Middle East. The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) yesterday releasedits latest data on the global
Oil & war; 16 years since the 2003 anti-war protests
Cover photo by Safa Kadhim On the 16th Feb, and to mark 16 years since the 2003 anti-war protests, BP or not BP?, and many others took over the British Museum; targetting specifically the BP-sponsored Assyria exhibition. This was part of a series of actions, that also included the action at the
If Jeremy Hunt wants to build peace in Yemen he must stop arming Saudi Arabia
Jeremy Hunt is touring Saudi Arabia, Oman and United Arab Emirates.’
UK selling tens of millions of pounds worth of arms to India and Pakistan
Last night India carried our air strikes in Pakistan. These followed years of tensions and the killing of 40 soldiers.
UK aid to Yemen: The best thing May can do for Yemen is to stop arming the Saudi regime
UK Government has pledged £200 million in aid for Yemen.’
German Government right to resist UK pressure on arms sales to Saudi Arabia
UK and Saudi Governments are putting pressure on Germany to resume arms sales to Saudi Arabia following suspension in 2018.’
CAAT response to House of Lords report on arms to Saudi: CAAT believes these arms sales are “immoral and illegal””
Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT) has responded to the House of Lords International Relations Committee’s report which examines the legality of UK arms exports to Saudi Arabia for use in Yemen.’
