The conference On the 1st and 2nd September, students from across the UK came together at Manchester University Student Union to collaborate and organise in their demands for their universities to stop arming, funding and supporting Israel’s ongoing occupation and colonisation of Palestinian land, human rights abuses, and breaking of international law. The educational weekend […]

Arms companies are currently rubbing their hands with glee as they eye up UK universities full of highly skilled students. Over at the University of Manchester, BAE Systems have been exploiting students’ labour to develop new types of drones that will have the potential to be used in conflicts around the world. At Cranfield University, […]

Students at both University College London (UCL) and Newcastle University have pushed their campaigns for arms trade divestment forwards through motions of support at their students unions. Disarm UCL, which re-formed only recently, managed to get a motion passed unanimously in their student union. The motion calls for UCL to cut research and consultancy ties with […]

Last Monday, students from Demilitarise King’s disrupted King’s College London’s (KCL) high profile launch of their ‘2029 Vision’. They drew attention to the hypocrisy of an event celebrating a strategic plan that aims “to make the world a better place”, while continuing to show support for the arms trade as a prestigious institution through it’s […]

2016 has been a busy year for Campaign Against Arms Trade Universities Network! Disarm York staged a protest against the presence of arms companies such as BAE Systems at a careers fair on campus. Watch the interview with the activists below. Thank you to everyone who’s put time and effort into campaigning on campus. In […]

King’s College London Action Palestine (KCLAP) are extremely excited to announce the launch of a new campaign to Demilitarise King’s! Through KCLAP’s research last year, and with the help from our friends at Fossil Free, we found out that King’s has invested around £1.5m in arms companies. The national pension scheme for King’s staff also […]

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” […]

After an excellent campaign by Leeds University student group Let’s Disarm Leeds, students voted Yes in a referendum on whether they wanted to end their university’s links with BAE Systems, the world’s third biggest arms manufacturer. This victory mandates the Students’ Union to lobby the University to do three things in particular: to stop inviting BAE to […]