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Smoke billows from fires on targets in Ras al-Ayn, Syria, caused by bombardment by Turkish forces
FIVE European governments are stopping arms sales to Turkey in protest at its invasion of Syria – but Britain continues to licence weapon exports to Ankara.
France and Germany have frozen arms sales and there are strong signs that Norway, Finland and the Netherlands will soon follow suit.
However, Britain continues to sell weapons to Turkey and, in the last five years, has licensed £1.1 billion worth of arms sales to the country, according to Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT).
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
Just as the Chilcot inquiry eventually exposed government failings over the Iraq war, a full independent investigation into British complicity in Israeli war crimes has become inevitable — despite official obstruction, writes JEREMY CORBYN MP
MICAELA TRACEY-RAMOS explains how Britain’s largest union is putting pressure on the British government to recognise the Palestinian state and end its complicity with Israel’s murderous actions