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Campaign Against Arms Trade is very concerned to hear that student activists are currently facing attacks on their right to protest across the country. In recent months, we’ve noted increasingly harsh responses from university authorities to protesting students. This academic term saw private security drag students from their own university building in Sheffield during a […]

Update: The protest was successful! The DPRTE conference has been moved away from the UWE campus. Well done to everyone who was involved for your hard work! Students of the University of the West of England joined forces with Bristol Against the Arms Trade yesterday to protest and disrupt the DPRTE conference, hosted by the […]

Students from the Fund Education Not War group at Sheffield University were dragged from the Octagon Centre where they were protesting the companies Augusta Westland, Airbus, BAE Systems, Rolls Royce, Thales and Ultra Electronics who were exhibiting at the university’s engineering careers fair. Some of the students were injured as a result. One activist shows […]

Students at Bristol university disrupted their Careers Fair to protest the attendance of BAE Systems, Thales and EADS. Here’s their press release: On the 22nd and 23rd of October a group of Bristol students took action against the presence of arms companies at careers fairs organised by Bristol university. This action took place at the […]

On the 10th October we had a really enjoyable and inspirational workshop at Portsmouth University. Loads of new ideas for campaigns and actions came out of it and we all left feeling excited for what lies ahead. To top it all off, it ended with a big group hug – d’aww. If you’d like a […]

After a spectacular campaign, Edinburgh university have divested from Ultra Electronics – a company which makes components for drones. The Guardian reports – ‘The company, headquartered at Greenford in Middlesex, makes navigation controls for the US fleet of Predator and Reaper unmanned aerial vehicles. Armed with Hellfire missiles, they are sent on covert “targeted killing” […]

A professor at the University of Manchester has written this article outlining exactly how the research taken by PhD students at the university benefit companies such as Rolls Royce and BAE Systems. If you’d like to stop your degree helping out arms dealers and the military, you might like to start a Study War No More […]

With less students choosing a career in the arms trade due to ethical concerns, BAE Systems have started paying graduates for their Summer Internship program. They brag that students will ‘use [their] skills to make a real contribution’ but fail to mention what interns will be contributing to – the death of thousands of people and […]

BAE Systems, one of the world’s biggest arms dealers, have been attending Edinburgh’s Careers Fairs for several years and have been met with student protests each time. This time last year, students held a stall outside the Careers Fair and even managed to confiscate some of BAE’s materials. At the end of the Fair, one of the […]