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Nuns and Kate Byrne Blogs

Riding the El Cid route to raise funds for CAAT

Kate Byrne hugging El Cid What a fantastic route, what amazing things we saw and what gruelling hills we climbed! Nine friends set off on 26 May to pedal part of the Camino Del Cid, a route which we planned to take us from Bilbao on the Northern coast of

Blogs

A poetic take on Libya

Athos Athanasiou was moved to write a poem about Libya and British arms firms’ dealings with Gaddafi. You can read more of his poetry on his blog. On Libya Oh just look! The papers say, David Cameron leads the way, in heading to the Middle East to try and quell

Blogs

Manchester University staff member’s ironic letter to colleagues about their indifference to the consequences of their research for BAE

Dear Colleagues, I attended the presentation given by the arms company Thales a few months ago as a personal interdisciplinary exercise. The problem was as follows. Given a group of thoroughly decent academics listening to a presentation of some highly technical problems posed by an organisation devoted to the production, inter alia, of tools of

Constituents lobby Vince Cable Blogs

UKTI DSO: pimping for the arms trade?

Jim McCluskey, who lives in Vince Cable's constituency asks: As a Liberal Democrat MP Vince Cable supported the call to end government support for arms exports; what's he doing now he's trade minister responsible for the arms industry? The international arms trade fuels the World’s wars. This is essentially a criminal activity which

Blogs

Something for the Weekend: Disarming DSEI

On Sunday 12th June, the "Get Ready for the Arms Fair" planning event took place. Campaigner and blogger Kirsten Bayes took part and had this to say about it... I spent the day with some of the most amazing people I have ever met (present company excepted, of course). They were gathered together to work

Press releases

Sri Lanka’s Killing Fields displays UK complicity in arms sales

Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT) has called for a government embargo on arms sales to Sri Lanka and an examination of its past record on arms exports, especially during the period of ceasefire between the government and Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), from 2005 to 2008. During these four years the UK is recorded

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