Campaigning

UCL student campaigners won a “tremendous victory” for human rights this week, when their student union passed a BDS (Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions) motion. The motion was passed with a 67% majority, after a “riveting” debate at a UCL student union council meeting. The Union is now mandated to cut ties with corporate entities directly contributing […]

BAE Systems tried to hold a recruitment event at the University of Warwick at the end of November, but students were not happy that their university was playing host to such an unethical company. After less than half an hour of protest, with a banner and chanting, the recruiters from BAE Systems packed up and […]

Campaigners and activists from across Cambridge came together this month to protest against arms companies recruiting at an engineering and science jobs fair. The two day event at the University of Cambridge included arms companies BAE Systems and Rolls-Royce, as well as the army; recruiting on Armistice Day. BAE Systems and Rolls-Royce both supply arms […]

After a successful campaign by the University of Liverpool Friends of Palestine (ULFOP) and CAAT groups, students voted in support of a Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) policy in a preferendum last week. The Liverpool Guild of Students now officially supports the Palestinian-led BDS movement and has a mandate to lobby the university to do the […]

Elle Spencer reports for Liverpool Life magazine about concerns over the University of Liverpool’s links with the arms trade. Students, activists and concerned citizens alike gathered in the Liverpool Guild of Students on Monday to discuss the University of Liverpool’s alleged involvement with the arms trade. Campaigner Greg Dropkin, who spoke at the meeting and […]

Last week students in Bristol took action against arms companies recruiting on their campus. Several arms companies were exhibiting at an IT and Engineering careers fair in the University’s Wills Memorial Building, but the Bristol Left society were there to counter them with a banner drop and an information stall. The action was a protest […]

Mike Allwright, a Biological Sciences PhD student, writes on a student campaign for ethical investment at the University of Southampton; asking their University to seize the opportunity to invest for the health of global society and the environment. In the past few years many university campuses have seen campaigns calling for the ethical investment of […]

Students across the country have gone into occupation demanding, amongst other things, a fairer education system and an end to university links with the arms trade. Occupy LSE We demand that the school cuts its ties to exploitative and destructive organisations, such as those involved in wars, military occupations and the destruction of the planet. This includes […]

BAE Chairman Roger Carr’s visit to speak at the University of Southampton last week was met with fierce opposition from students and locals. Students from the university joined forces with Southampton Campaign Against Arms Trade to show their opposition to BAE Systems and highlight the links between the university and the destructive arms industry. A lively protest took place outside […]