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Get ready to #StopDSEI 2019!

Every two years, the global arms trade comes to London. DSEI, one of the world’s largest arms fairs, returns in September 2019. This is where those who profit from war, repression and injustice do business. This is where we can stop them. More than 1,000 arms companies plan to set up shop, marketing their wares...

CAAT Reading Group: ‘Arms Trade 101 and intersecting issues’ series – 6 parts

Join us for our first ever Reading Group series! Following our ‘Arms Trade 101 and intersecting issues’ panel, we will delve deeper into some of the profound issues connected to the global arms trade over the course of 6 weeks with the help of some of the UK’s brightest critical thinkers. Starting by setting the...

CAAT presents… ‘Arms Trade 101 and intersecting issues’: Panel Event – Thursday 9th July 2020, 6.30pm – 9pm

Following a successful series of online trainings, join us for our first online panel event, focusing on building our understanding of how the global arms trade intersects with other key issues of our time, including racism, colonialism, climate (in)justice and militarised policing. We will start the event with poetry from Yemeni poet Amina Atiq, based in...

Blocking and exposing the arms fair in 2017

10 September 2018

DSEI (Defence & Security Equipment International) is one of the world’s largest arms fairs. Hundreds of people got in the way of its set-up at London’s ExCeL Centre in September 2017. Dabke-dancing, aerobics, a gig on a flatbed truck, abseilers dangling from a bridge, theatre, military veterans undertaking unofficial vehicle checks for banned weapons, Kurdish...

A person stands in the foreground holding a placard reading 'nuclear bombs point of delivery'. There is a red silhouette of a bomb pointing down at two figures silhouetted in black. An adult figure is crouched over a child. Also silhouetted in the background are a tank and two dead trees. The bottom of the banner reads 'Quaker Peace and Social Witness www.quakers.org.uk/qpsw'. The background of the photo is out of focus but a crowd of people can be seen standing in the road and on the pavement in front of a stationery lorry.

‘No to Nuclear’ day

This year Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) is working with Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT) and Trident Ploughshares to organise a ‘No to Nuclear’ day at the DSEI arms fair in London. Matt Fawcett from Yorkshire CND explains. The Defence & Security Equipment International (DSEI) is the world’s largest arms fair, held in London every...

Jungmin, wearing a white patterned shirt, stands in front of a black, metal garage door set in a brick wall behind several plants growing in pots

Jungmin from South Korea on why she will be joining the action against the London arms fair

Jungmin from South Korea’s World Without War on why she will be joining the action against the London arms fair this September.

Four people facing the camera link arms in a darkened room

Solidarity from New Zealand with everyone shutting down the London arms fair this September

Solidarity from activists from Auckland Peace Action and Peace Action Wellington organising against October’s weapons expo in Wellington with everyone shutting down the London arms fair this September.

Purple text reading 'No Faith in War' on a white background.

No Faith in War: Programme of events

This is the programme of events that have been scheduled to take place (so far!) during the ‘No Faith in War‘ action on Tuesday 5th September. More events have been planned that have not yet been scheduled and yet more still that will not be scheduled (such as the street theatre which will take place...

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