The Peace Pledge Union, ForcesWatch, Woodcraft Folk and Campaigns Against Arms Trade issued a joint letter raising concerns about arms companies and their targeting of young people at the Farnborough Air Show. The letter below featured in the Morning Star.
Press Release by a coalition of peace and anti-war organisations - Peace Pledge Union, ForcesWatch, Campaign Against Arms Trade and Quakers in Britain; supported by Veterans for Peace Britain
Campaigning for peace can often feel like an uphill struggle. But every so often a campaign cuts through and reminds us what sustained local action can achieve.In York last year, there was one such moment.
Today a coalition of British peace organisations is launching a new petition calling on the UK government to rule out military conscription, or any form of compulsory national service involving the armed forces.
At a time of polycrisis, with war and militarism on the rise, racial discrimination continues to influence whose lives are valued and protected, and whose are ignored or treated as collateral damage.
The PPU joins peace campaigners across the world - along with most people in the UK, US and elsewhere - in condemning the US and Israeli assault on Iran.
An arms fair at Birmingham’s National Exhibition Centre (NEC) has once again drawn determined protests, as peace campaigners demanded an end to the normalisation of war profiteering in the city.
