Aiding and abetting Erdoğan's brutality
Submitted by Shoal Collective on Sep 7 2017 20:18
This is one of a series of articles written by Shoal Collective in the run-up to the DSEI arms fair. This one focuses on Turkey's arms industry and deals it has made with other countries. It was originally published in Morning Star.
A demonstration in solidarity with Kurds and against arming the Turkish state will take place on Sunday 10 September outside the East Entrance of the ExCel Centre from 1pm.
Britain’s £100m fighter jet deal is helping Erdogan build a self-reliant dictatorship, writes SARA WOODS
DSEI will host Israeli government, military and defense industry representatives
Submitted by Shoal Collective on Sep 4 2017 03:58
Originally published on International Middle East Mdia Center
This September, the world’s largest arms fair will be held in London. The DSEI weapons exhibition will be hosting political and military delegations from around the world who will be shopping for drones, guns, missiles, tanks and ammunition from the thousands of arms companies who will be attending.
DSEI: A supermarket for state surveillance and border wars
Submitted by Shoal Collective on Sep 3 2017 15:06
As borders are increasingly militarised and their operation privatised, migration, more than ever before, is also an anti-militarist struggle, write Amy Hall and Sara Woods of Shoal Collective.
West Papua's Silent Genocide
Submitted by Shoal Collective on Sep 2 2017 17:46
The brutal occupation of West Papua is under-reported - but UK and US corporations are profiting from the violence, write Eliza Egret and Tom Anderson
The revolving door between the government and the arms trade
Submitted by Shoal Collective on Sep 2 2017 17:40
The involvement of high-ranking Tory ministers at the DSEI arms fair highlights the thin line between government department and the arms industry, writes ELIZA EGRET
‘War starts here, let’s stop it here’: Anger as death-dealers head for London
Submitted by Shoal Collective on Sep 2 2017 07:44
In the final essay of a three-part #StopDSEI series, originally published by Ceasefire Magazine, Paul Cudenec reports on the toxic politics at the heart of DSEI, the world's largest arms fair, and the protest action set to greet it in London's Docklands next week, with opponents aiming to physically to stop it being set up.
Saudi’s bombing campaign is destroying my country, Yemen, and Britain is helping them do it
Submitted by Shoal Collective on Sep 2 2017 07:39
In the second essay in a three-part #StopDSEI series, originally published in Ceasefire magazine, Safa Al-Shamy gives her perspective on the motivations for the Saudi attack on her country, Yemen, the humanitarian crisis it has caused, and the UK's role in supporting it.
The war on Yemen is about capitalism, not sectarianism
Submitted by Shoal Collective on Sep 2 2017 07:25
In the first essay, in a three-part series originally published in Ceasefire Magazine, Tom Anderson reviews the roots of the crisis in Yemen, where the civilian population has been enduring a brutal bombing campaign by a Saudi-led coalition, supported by the UK, since 2015.
Don’t let the world’s biggest arms fair turn 20
Submitted by Shoal Collective on Aug 31 2017 15:24
Once again, Docklands’ ExCeL Centre will host the DSEI (Defence and Security Equipment International) arms fair next month. 1,600 exhibitors will showcase equipment including drones, tanks, guns, bombs, warships, crowd control weaponry and covert surveillance equipment.
Original article at http://www.redpepper.org.uk/dont-let-the-worlds-biggest-arms-fair-turn-20/
'You can't build jobs on the corpses of innocents'
Submitted by Shoal Collective on Jul 23 2017 11:48
Eliza Egret and Tom Anderson speak with peace activist SAM WALTON about a daring raid he took part in to disarm a Yemen-bound warplane
