First CAAT News of 2025 - Read Now!

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Dear Friends,

A New Year, but the same old story?

The news continues to be depressing, and the old trade in death and destruction continues, yet we remain resolute in our opposition and commitment to end it.

Welcome to the first of four editions of CAAT News for 2025. We all hope you enjoyed CAAT News 271 with its look back across our 50 years of campaigning; we plan to include some more archive material later this year.

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Thank you to all those who responded by making donations over the last few months - we are so aware that we wouldn’t be able to continue campaigning without your financial and other support!

With worrying signals coming from the White House and the announced increase in UK arms spending (plundering the overseas aid budget), the only thing that's certain is the world is becoming a more dangerous place, and the only victors appear to be arms dealers.

This year bring the dreaded DSEI to London, so do keep an eye out for CAAT's DSEI 2025 campaign that we'll be launching later this week by email and Social Media.

If you can, please do sign up to our emails, follow our social media posts and watch our website for a more speedy response to events; we use CAAT News more as a reflective digest, for a printed publication sent by the cheapest available method can never match the instant delivery of an online message.

Here’s a brief overview of some of the highlights you’ll find inside:

- Still arming Israel: the government in the dock (continued). With the precarious ceasefire, we continue to look at arms sales to Israel and the expected date for GLAN and Al-Haq’s hearing in the High Court. Read on page 3.
- The updated and invaluable resource - CAAT’s interactive map of arms companies selling weapons to Israel - is found on page 15.
- Who’s going to buy Eurofighters? We look at the government’s push to sell Eurofighter Typhoons and the range of countries on its hotlist. See on page 6.
- The ADS dinner. We organised the biggest turn-out yet to shame the arms dealers arriving for their annual banquet - a feast built on worldwide misery. Page 7.
- Arms fairs - it’s a DSEI year. As we trailed in CAAT News 271, 2025 is a DSEI year, one we expect to be even bigger than usual. We need as much support - both in the form of bodies and funds - to ensure our campaigning is as effective as possible. Details of DSEI and other arms fairs are on pages 8 & 9.
- A new “Defence Industrial Strategy.” Read about the Government’s plans to strengthen the UK arms industry on page 10.
- UK arms sales soar by 50%! There is analysis of the statistics and an overview of where the arms are going on page 11.
- Local groups protested in Telford and outside L3Harris in London. Wide-ranging activism by supporters is covered on page 12.
- There would be no CAAT without our supporters. We look at how our campaigning work would just dry up without financial help from our supporters - on page 15

We use this covering sheet to ask you to support CAAT in our continuing work to STOP the arms trade by making a donation. Do, please, help as you are able.

We trust that you believe in what we are doing, and support our work. Do let us know your thoughts, and alert us of anything you hear of that you think would be useful for us to know.

As you know, I’ve been asking you to consider making your donations to us by Direct Debit: these are easy to set up and really do mount up over time (you can easily stop them at any time). There’s the further benefit of helping us manage our regular budget and plan for the future.

It’s so encouraging to see supporters taking out new DDs and increasing existing ones.

If you are not able to help at the moment, please read on for plenty of other ways to get involved in this work in the enclosed CAAT News magazine.

Thank you all again so much for your support in so many ways!

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With all best wishes from

Charles and all of the team at CAAT

PS – I’m looking for any stories you’d like to pass on about your involvement with CAAT over our half-century. As I mentioned above, I’d be very interested in including them in future issues.

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