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All the latest from Campaign Against Arms Trade, across the country and near you, including press releases, the CAAT Blog, articles from the CAAT News magazine, and info on local actions. Browse the full list, or filter by type or topic.

Press releases

BAE Chairman dismisses Nimrod Review conclusions

Anti-arms trade campaigners have reacted with incredulity after the Chairman of BAE Systems appeared to dismiss the conclusions of the Nimrod Review. Mr Dick Olver was answering questions in a public meeting after delivering the Mountbatten Memorial Lecture at the Institute for Engineering and Technology (IET) on the evening of 12 November.

Press releases

Dick’s next trick – selling deadly arms and lecturing on ethics

Anti-arms trade campaigners have reacted with anger and disbelief that the Chairman of Britain’s biggest arms manufacturer is to deliver a lecture on ethics in business. Mr Dick Olver, chairman of BAE Systems, is scheduled to give the public the benefit of his wisdom at the Institute of Engineering and Technology (IET) on 12

Blogs

Green markets or gun markets

David Watson writes on weapons, wars and climate change for Blog Action Day on Climate Change - 15 October 2009. On 14 October, BBC's Newsnight asked the question "Can you be green and capitalist?" Simon Retallack, associate director at the centre-left think tank, the Institute for Public Policy Research, was asked how best to fight

Blogs

Clown Army descend upon BAE careers fair!

Battlefield dispatch from General Whitewash and his brigade of rebel clowns: #gallery-1 { margin: auto; } #gallery-1 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 33%; } #gallery-1 img { border: 2px solid #cfcfcf; } #gallery-1 .gallery-caption { margin-left: 0; } /* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes/media.php */ Austin caption Today at 17:00 hours a highly militarised clown battalion laid siege to the BAE Systems stand at the Edinburgh University Careers Fair on Chambers Street. In a bid to disrupt the recruiting efforts of the world’s third largest arms

Press releases

Anti-arms trade website will support university campaigners

In 2008/9 students across the UK made massive advances in breaking the links between universities and the arms trade, campaigning on issues such as university shareholdings in arms companies and military research. To build on that success, Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT) has launched a Universities Network website to assist students in their continuing

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Campaigners welcome SFO action on BAE prosecution

Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT) and The Corner House have welcomed the decision of the Director of the UK’s Serious Fraud Office (SFO), Richard Alderman, to begin prosecution proceedings against BAE Systems for alleged corruption and false accounting in its arms sales to at least four countries – Czech Republic, Romania, South Africa and

Blogs

DSEI video blog

On the 8 September the DSEI arms fair opened in East London.  I spent the day meandering around CAAT’s demonstration outside the offices of UKTI DSO talking to all and sundry. I wanted to see the range of reasons why such a large group of people had gathered to fight actions our government deems to

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