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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 […]

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 […]

At last year’s Yorkshire Graduate Recruitment Fair in Leeds, Thales, the world’s 11th largest arms company attended. A few months ago, they were listed on the Fair’s website as attending again but after a huge campaign by Let’s Disarm Leeds and a successful student union referendum against arms company’s presence on campus, they have quietly disappeared […]

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 […]