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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.

An armed solider and an armed police officer on an urban street

British pacifists have pledged to resist any plan to deploy armed forces personnel on British streets to carry out police functions.

People holding a large banner reading "Say no to killing, say no to the arms fair".

The first day of the DSEI arms fair has seen protests, criticism and nonviolent direct aciton at London’s Excel Centre.

Poster reading "Stop the Arms Fair"

Participants in London's DSEI arms fair will have to walk past a memorial ceremony for victims of war as the event opens.

Poster reading 'Stop the Arms Fair'

The biennial DSEI arms fair is already facing resistance, days before it opens at London's Excel Centre.

Grant Shapps

Grant Shapps has been urged to end military support for regimes such as Saudi Arabia and cancel the upcoming London arms fair.

Yurii Sheliazhenko in front of a peace poster

British pacifists have said that charges brought against a leading Ukrainian pacifist are ludicrous, untrue and politically motivated.

People holding placards reading 'No Pride in War'

British pacifists have said that the UK goverment and its armed forces remain complicit in homophobic persecution.

Four people forming part of a peace protest in Falmouth

The Armed Forces Day National Event divided people in Falmouth today as the town saw protests, graffiti and questions over freedom to protest.

A soldier watches as a small child sits at the controls of a machine gun.

Concerned parents have raised the alarm over “family” events for Armed Forces Day tomorrow,

Welsh flag

A new campaigning network is preparing to map militarism in Wales and bring people together to challenge it.

Poster for the Object War campaign, supporting Russian, Ukrainian and Belarusian conscientious objectors

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.

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