Aiding and abetting Erdoğan's brutality
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
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
West Papua's Silent Genocide
The revolving door between the government and the arms trade
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
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
The war on Yemen is about capitalism, not sectarianism
Don’t let the world’s biggest arms fair turn 20
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'
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