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The PPU joins other voices from the peace movement in condemning the horrific attacks on civilians by Hamas on Saturday in Southern Israel, including hostage-taking and the killing of more than 1200 people.
British pacifists have pledged to resist any plan to deploy armed forces personnel on British streets to carry out police functions.
The first day of the DSEI arms fair has seen protests, criticism and nonviolent direct aciton at London’s Excel Centre.
Participants in London's DSEI arms fair will have to walk past a memorial ceremony for victims of war as the event opens.
The biennial DSEI arms fair is already facing resistance, days before it opens at London's Excel Centre.
Grant Shapps has been urged to end military support for regimes such as Saudi Arabia and cancel the upcoming London arms fair.
British pacifists have said that charges brought against a leading Ukrainian pacifist are ludicrous, untrue and politically motivated.
British pacifists have said that the UK goverment and its armed forces remain complicit in homophobic persecution.
On International Conscientious Objectors' Day, Rishi Sunak has been urged to offer asylum to Russians who refuse to be part of the war in Ukraine.
The Peace Pledge Union has backed teachers who are challenging a rise in military spending while education is desperately underfunded.