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UK government licensed almost £4 billion of arms to Saudi Arabia

Licences included fighter jets, military vehicles and targeting equipment 62% of UK adults oppose arms sales to Saudi regime, with only 16% supporting The sentencing of Karl Andree, 74, to 350 lashes is yet another reminder of the terrible human…

Turkey: Enough bloody politics

Around one hundred people died and many more were injured in an explosion that took place in Ankara, Turkey in an event with the slogan “Against War, Peace Now”.  The intention of this attack was to terrorise not only those…

ICAN’s key messages for governments

The First Committee on disarmament of the UN General Assembly opened for general debate from October 7 until the end of next week, where governments will be exchanging views about a range of disarmament issues, including nuclear weapons. Following the…

EuroMarches 2015 – day 7 – Barcelona-Andorra-Toulouse

On this day another bus joined the March. In Seo de Urgel EuroMarches delivered a letter to the Archbishop, Co-Prince of Andorra, a meeting was then held with the unions, who were in their election day and, finally, there was…

Ada Colau shows her support for EuroMarchas

Ada Colau, Mayor of Barcelona, received the marchers at the city council and give her support to the EuroMarches. Coming from Zaragoza, EuroMarches arrived at Tortosa at lunchtime on the 5th of October. Representatives from the social movements in Bajo…

Uzbek Elena Urlaeva, drugged, beaten and detained by police

Dear people, Drugged, beaten and detained by police — this was the fate of activist Elena Urlaeva who dared to document state-sponsored forced labour in the cotton fields of Uzbekistan this May.1 In Uzbekistan, the whole country suffers at the…

EuroMarches rejects NATO military exercises

During the reception of EuroMarches in Plaza Cibeles with a musical spectacle put on by Solfónica (an orchestra of 50 young musicians and 130 popular actors) there was a dominant cry: “Another Europe is possible!” under the emblematic banner on…

Madrid receives the EuroMarches

Madrid received the EuroMarches in an extraordinary way on Saturday 3rd October. Six columns came from different neighbourhoods to converge on Plaza de Cibeles at 7pm with around 10,000 people gathering in the square. Activists went on to the stage…

EuroMarches adopts the struggle against water privatisation

The South-West column of EuroMarches got up early to reach Cáceres at 9am. On the outskirts the marchers were met by around two hundred people who accompanied the march on foot to the town centre. A welcome and farewell event…

On Common Security for the European Union and Russia

On the first weekend in September, 2015 a conference took place in Helsinki, Finland organised by the No-to-War, No-to-Nato campaign on the theme of NATO and Russian military activity in the Baltic Region.  Here is the conference’s final declaration. In…

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