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Veteran anti-arms trade campaigner Sylvia Boyes was convicted yesterday for “obstructing the highway” during a protest at a London arms fair last September.
The 71-year-old Campaign Against Arms Trade (Caat) activist was sentenced at Stratford magistrates’ court after taking part in a protet against the DSEi arms fair.
The pensioner was the only defendant to be tried and found guilty at the court and is being made to pay a total of £440 between fines and legal costs. Ms Boyes is challenging the fines and the court has ordered for them to be deducted from her pension at a yet to be confirmed rate.
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
SOLOMON HUGHES explains how the PM is channelling the spirit of Reagan and Thatcher with a ‘two-tier’ nuclear deterrent, whose Greenham Common predecessor was eventually fought off by a bunch of ‘punks and crazies’