Qatari government soldiers
A NEW military agreement between the British government and Qatar shows a “flagrant disregard for human rights,” anti-arms campaigners said yesterday.
The agreement, signed by Defence Secretary Ben Wallace and his Qatari counterpart on Wednesday, will allow the Gulf state to use a British military air base.
It comes after Qatar purchased nine Hawk jets from BAE systems, Britain’s largest arms firm.
Witnessing a war of words at a meeting on tackling militarism at The World Transformed, BEN COWLES spoke to a union rep who is organising against war from inside the arms industry itself, to hear about worker-led solutions to ending weapons production
From nuclear bomb storage in the 1950s to surveillance flights over Gaza today, the Cyprus base has enabled seven decades of machinations so heinous that Starmer once blurted out ‘we can’t tell the world’ what goes on there, writes NUVPREET KALRA