Cartoonist Steve Bell working on "Arms Spending Really Screws You Up" cartoon in forecourt of the Royal Academy in1986

Dear Supporter,

Welcome to the first in a monthly cycle of messages relating to our 50 years of resistance to the arms trade. We’ll be looking at our history, tell you about our planned events and include some memories from staff, volunteers and supporters.

There are two things for you to explore today:

1. 50 years of resistance

Here’s a link to a new page on our website, summarising the history of CAAT and our campaigns to end the arms trade.

2. Exhibition at the LSE opens today

Sam, Jon and I have had a dive into the CAAT archives to choose some really historic and interesting items for our part in this exhibition, A Say in the End of the World - Solidarity and Nuclear Defence in the Cold War, hosted by the Library of the London School of Economics. The exhibition runs until Sunday 15 September, so do pay a visit if you are in central London over the next few months.

The CAAT archives now live at the LSE Library and the process of cataloguing is underway, which will enable researchers to use them for the public benefit.

Finally, if you have any memories you’d like us to record and share, please do get in touch with me at: [email protected] – we’d love to hear from you.

With best wishes from us all,

Charles

Charles Wright
Supporter Development Manager
Campaign Against Arms Trade

P.S. We are proud of what we’ve achieved together in the past 50 years. But there is so much more to do. We hope that through remembering and looking back, we will inspire people to think about what we can do in the future, and what we can achieve through working and campaigning together for a better world. If you can, please donate to support our current campaigns.