BREAKING: The UK government as awarded a £1bn contract to Italian weapons manufacturer, Leonardo, for a new fleet of 23 medium-lift helicopters.

Our friends at Peace Pledge Union are hiring! If you're thoughtful and driven in communications, apply now before Sunday 29th March. www.ppu.org.uk/vacancies

ONE WEEK TO APPLY Are you an experienced advocate & communicator with a desire to hold Parliament accountable for the UK’s weapons exports? We're hiring a temporary Advocacy Manager to oversee our parliamentary and legal work. 🔗 Apply how: www.charityjob.co.uk/jobs/caat/ad...

📣 CAAT IS HIRING! Are you an experienced advocate & communicator with a desire to hold Parliament accountable for the UK’s weapons exports? Join our team challenging the UK arms trade and the institutions that perpetuate it. 🔗 Apply before 9 March: www.charityjob.co.uk/jobs/caat/ad...

🚨 Israel’s ambassador to the United States, Yechiel Leiter confirms the number of flight hours Israeli pilots have on the F-35 “is greater than that of all the pilots of the other foreign countries that were partners in developing the aircraft”.

Laëtitia Sédou of European Network Against the Arms Trade (ENAAT) on the horrendous EU proposals to deregulate the arms trade, to the benefit of the arms dealers who wield huge influence with EU institutions, and to the detriment of peace and human rights worldwide. euobserver.com/203546/how-t...

Who benefits from a permanent war economy? Join CAAT's Katie Fallon with Iain Overton, Mira Naseer, and Justin Schlosberg for a panel on the profits of war in this moment of accelerating militarising and threats of war 🎟️ Get tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/panel-disc...

NOVOTEL LONDON WEST: STOP HOSTING ARMS FAIRS Today, the International Military Helicopter conference begins in West London. Thousands of arms dealers, military, and government officials are meeting at a marketplace for death and destruction. TAKE ACTION: 📧 caat.org.uk/challenges/a...

STOP THE INTERNATIONAL MILITARY HELICOPTER CONFERENCE The IMH Conference takes place 24-26 of February at Novotel London West. Join us to stop this three-day marketplace of death and destruction. caat.org.uk/challenges/a...

Tomorrow, the International Military Helicopter conference takes place at the Novotel London West. Here, arms companies will present and discuss how to make more lethal killing machines. Take action now to stop it: caat.org.uk/challenges/a...

📣 Work with CAAT! We're hiring a temporary Advocacy Manager to oversee our parliamentary and legal work, liaise with relevant partner organisations, & advance our key campaigns as well as help shift public attitudes towards the arms trade. Apply before 9am on 9 March

🚨Public Interest Law Centre is calling on the Metropolitan Police to investigate Elbit Systems UK for war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide. CAAT supports this urgent and necessary complaint.

📣 WE'RE HIRING Are you an experienced advocate & communicator with a desire to hold Parliament accountable for the UK’s weapons exports? Join our team challenging the UK arms trade and the institutions that perpetuate it. 🔗 Apply before 9 March: www.charityjob.co.uk/jobs/caat/ad...

Job! Advocacy Manager (Sabbatical Cover, 13m) Are you an experienced advocate & communicator with a desire to hold parliament accountable for the UK’s arms exports? Join a dedicated, passionate team challenging the UK arms trade and the institutions that perpetuate it. caat.org.uk/about-caat/j...

Since July 2025, police across the UK have made over 2,000 arrests as they enforced an unlawful ban of Palestine Action, according to the Observer. The Metropolitan Police spent £8.73 million on four days of protests.

🛑 STOP BRITISH NUKE JETS RALLY AT RAF MARHAM 🛑 Join us to rally against the government's ever-growing nuclear expansion. 📍 RAF Marham 📅 28th Feb ⏰ 1pm caat.org.uk/events/prote...

Right now, the World Defense Show arms fair is taking place in Saudi Arabia. 1388 companies are displaying their lethal weapons, incl BAE & Raytheon. More weapons sold for more wars and more murder.

On 2nd February, evidence revealed by the Undercover Policing Inquiry shows that multiple undercover police officers spied on anti-arms trade campaigners, incl. Campaign Against Arms Trade, because of the financial importance of the arms trade to the British state. 🔗 caat.org.uk/news/underco...

Deeply concerning. The thinktank Labour Together paid a PR firm £30,000 to investigate journalists, including Declassified UK's John McEvoy. This is a clear attack on press freedom and intimidation of journalists working in the public's interest. www.declassifieduk.org/labour-think...

📣 CAAT is recruiting! We're looking for six volunteers to join our new Advisory Council. If you've ever wanted to get more involved in work taking on the arms trade, now is your chance! Apply by 9am on Monday 9th February. www.charityjob.co.uk/volunteer-jo...

Still time to apply to join our Advisory Council!

🇵🇸 TODAY: MPs will debate Israel's genocide in Gaza in Parliament. Write to your MP to speak at the debate and show how flawed the Government's genocide assessment process has been on Israel's genocide in Palestine. 📧 caat.org.uk/email-your-m...

URGENT: On Thursday 5th February, MPs will debate Britain's obligation to stop Israel's genocide in Palestine. This will expose that the government has failed its own genocide assessment process and ignored violations of international law. 📧 Ask your MP to speak at it: caat.org.uk/email-your-m...

🚨 BREAKING: Jury refuses to convict 6 defendants in the Palestine Action Filton24 case. Charlotte Head, Samuel Corner, Leona Kamio, Fatema Zainab Rajwani, Zoe Rogers, and Jordan Devlin have all been in prison on remand for 17 months. This is a major victory.

GENOCIDE JETS: MADE IN BRITAIN 15% of the F-35 jet used for genocide in Gaza and US attacks on Venezuela is made in Britain. ✍️ Write to your MP to demand the UK leave the F-35 programme and immediately halt the exports of parts to the US and Israel: caat.org.uk/take-action/...

🚨 🇵🇸 BREAKING: 58 MPs and Lords have written to the government extremely concerned by apparent move towards “unblocking” arms licences to Israel.

📣 CAAT is recruiting! We're looking for six volunteers to join our new Advisory Council. If you've ever wanted to get more involved in work taking on the arms trade, now is your chance! Apply by 9am on Monday 9th February. www.charityjob.co.uk/volunteer-jo...

📣 CAAT is recruiting! We're looking for six volunteers to join our new Advisory Council. If you've ever wanted to get more involved in work taking on the arms trade, now is your chance! Apply by 9am on Monday 9th February. www.charityjob.co.uk/volunteer-jo...

F-35 fighter jets - Israel's primary genocide jet & used by the US' deadly attacks on Venezuela - are made in Britain. Take action now and email your MP to demand the UK leave the F-35 programme and immediately halt the exports of parts to the US and Israel. ✍️ caat.org.uk/take-action/...

📣 CAAT News 275 is out now! In this edition, we get into: ➡️ So-called ceasefire in Gaza ➡️ Shut down DSEI 2025 ➡️ Attacks on our right to protest ➡️ Scottish action on genocide + more! Get your free copy now: caat.org.uk/publications...

Last night, over 100 people protested the annual arms dealer dinner and shut down an entrance which forced attendees to be escorted in by police. The dinner was hosted by the ADS Group, an arms lobbyist which includes the world's worst genocide profiteers and war criminals.

🚨BREAKING: Protestors have SHUT DOWN the arms lobby group ADS’ annual arms dealer dinner in London tonight. SHUT IT DOWN FOR PALESTINE 🇵🇸

BREAKING: A separate judicial review over the proscription of Palestine Action will take place in Scotland.

🚨 TOMORROW Join us in London to protest the grotesque £250-a-head arms dealer dinner. We will not let those profiting from and enabling war to celebrate in peace. 📅 27 Jan ⏰ 6PM 📍 JW Marriott, Park Lane, W1K 7TN

Wanted war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu has joined Trump's "Board of Peace". Trump, Blair, Witkoff, Netanyahu, and the other war criminals on the "board" have no interest in peace. They want more war and more money.

One year since the beginning of Trump's second term in office as President of the United States, CAAT's Research Co-ordinator reflects on Trump's 2025 policy for Gaza. 🔗 Read on Forum on the Arms Trade: www.forumarmstrade.org/trump_yearon...

Just after backing the US violations of the UN charter over Venezuela, and following over 2 years military support to Israel during its genocide, "the Prime Minister reiterated the UK’s enduring support for the UN and the international rules-based system".

"From the Riviera to the ceasefire: Trump’s Gaza policy in 2025" by Sam Perlo-Freeman, Research Coordinator, Campaign Against Arms Trade @smhwpf.bsky.social @caatuk.bsky.social #TrumpAtOneYear #Israel #Gaza www.forumarmstrade.org/trump_yearon...

🧵Read nine commentaries on Trump's first year in office from experts and emerging experts based in the United States, as well as Austria, the Netherlands, Uganda, and the United Kingdom. #TrumpAtOneYear www.forumarmstrade.org/trump_yearon... 👇

Annual review of Yemen airstrikes. In 2025 @yemendataproject.org recorded: ⚠️Highest number of civilian casualties since 2022 ⚠️US responsible for >50% of 1,334 civilian casualties ⚠️Highest child death toll since 2020 ⚠️Israeli strikes resulted in highest ever rate of civilian harm 👉 t.co/MV8uEQO33E

📢 JOINT CIVIL SOCIETY STATEMENT ON UK ARMS LICENCES TO ISRAEL caat.org.uk/news/joint-c...

We join Demilitarise Education’s call to End University War Complicity. Sign the open letter urging university leaders to cut ties with arms companies linked to war, human rights abuses, and environmental destruction.

🚨 Elbit Systems has lost the £2bn army training contract to Raytheon UK. While we welcome the loss of the contract to a subsidiary of Israel's largest weapons manufacturer, we must oppose these investments into "preparations for war" all while welfare and public investments are being cut.

🚨 The UK government has confirmed it is ready to lift the temporary restrictions on export licences to Israel after “Phase 2” of the ceasefire.

British-made weapons were used by the US to attack Venezuela on 3rd January. Starmer, instead of condemning these violations of international law, cheered it on. Shameful.

On the 24th anniversary since the US opened the US Guantánamo Bay Detention Facility, we join 116 organisations in calling for its immediate closure and demand redress for all those tortured there. www.cvt.org/statements/g...