Arms Industry
Forward! The march, the burden and the desert, weariness and anger. ~Arthur Rimbaud, “A Season in Hell” The French defence industry has become addicted to arms exports as part of a national strategy to remain a global military player. To feed this addiction, France is effectively allowing undemocratic countries in the Middle East and elsewhere to purchase French diplomatic silence and political complicity for their crimes. ***Version française ci-dessous*** While it is common knowledge that the Middle East has been a near-permanent theatre...
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Crafting Human Rights Due Diligence Legislation for Arms CompaniesThe international legal systems deployed to restrain the arms industry in the face of violations of human rights and humanitarian law are demonstrably weak. In certain areas, collective action has attempted to address this. Union workers in Italy refused to load generators onto boats laden with arms and bound for Saudi Arabia; diverse coalitions of demonstrators protested arms fairs in the UK; and Google employees refused to continue the corporation’s work on developing AI technology that could be ...
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in Belgium, France, Italy and Spain and arms exports by these countriesThe Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung is a German political foundation that operates both nationally and internationally. In keeping with its namesake, it is committed to the ideas and actions of the socialist Rosa Luxemburg. We are committed to working within the traditions of the global workers’, feminist, anti-fascist, and anti-war movements and uphold the ideas of democratic socialism. We work on two levels: To strengthen left-wing actors in movements, political parties and unions....
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