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Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT) is delighted that the Commons Foreign Affairs Committee (FAC) is examining the relationship between the UK and Saudi Arabia, not least because of the huge amount of UK military equipment exports that continue to go there.

London's National Gallery has announced the end of its long-standing sponsorship arrangement with weapons manufacturer Finmeccanica, following a campaign by Campaign Against Arms Trade to "Disarm the Gallery."

Protesters outside Vince Cable's constituency office Paul Tippell is a member of Twickenham, Richmond and Kingston Network against the Arms Trade (TRAKNAT, www.traknat.org.uk), which is co-ordinating a public meeting on 29 November to quiz Vince Cable and Zac Goldsmith on the arms trade. We spoke to him about how

The Right Livelihood Award is also known as "The Alternative Nobel Prize" Last week, on Thursday 27 September, Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT) was awarded one of the four Right Livelihood Awards for 2012 for our "innovative and effective campaigning against the

The Shut Down H&K campaign pickets the Nottingham site every month and in 2010 shut it down for a day with a rooftop occupation In Nottingham, Shut Down H&K picket their local arms company Heckler & Koch every month. Here they report on leafleting as people arrived at a conference

Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT) has been awarded one of the four Right Livelihood Awards for 2012 for their innovative and effective campaigning against the arms trade. CAAT is an independent campaigning organisation based in Finsbury Park, north London.

On the International Day of Peace, Friday 21 September, giant bubbles will fill Trafalgar Square with the message Bubbles Not Bombs. The family friendly event will call on the National Gallery to end its support for the arms trade.

"Danger arms traders work here!" Outside the Finmeccanica office in central London Jessie from the London CAAT group reports on a successful mission to expose an arms company lurking in London.