Posted on Monday 2 April 2007
`Stop the War’ (whichever war) is useless sloganeering unless it is
accompanied by a commitment to stopping the global arms trade. War
will never stop whilst weapon sales are a booming capitalist
business worth in the region of $40 billion a year.
In 2005, DSEi hosted 1,100 companies, 70 official military delegation and
20,000 visitors from across the globe. Many of the countries invited were
at war, some with each other. Many were dictatorships with appalling
human rights records. Many had huge national debts with populations in
severe states of poverty and starvation.
There are no borders, no limitations and certainly no morals when it comes
to arms trading. Whilst countries such as the US and UK pretend to
restrict the sale of arms, there are enough loopholes to enable dealers to
trade whatever they like, to whoever they like.
We must not let them meet without disruption and opposition.
Join us and take action. Say no to war. Say no to the arms trade.