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Dictator Debt Die-in at Dodgy Deals Department

Posted on April 17, 2012 by Maddy 0 comments

 

Jubilee Debt Campaign and London Campaign Against Arms Trade staged a die in at Vince Cable’s business department to highlight its role in promoting and financing arms sales.

It was another chance to keep up the pressure on Vince Cable to cancel the dictator debts that have resulted from the department backing arms sales to dictatorships.

Campaigners braved the rain to take part in the protest as part of the Global Day of Action on Military Spending, which included actions across the UK and the world.

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Argentina still ‘owes’ UK for Falklands arms

Posted on April 16, 2012 by Maddy 0 comments

We have uncovered documents showing that Argentina still ‘owes’ the UK £45m for arms sales to the military junta in the years leading up to the Falklands War. The UK knew Argentina might invade the Falklands, and the regime had a ‘worse’ human rights record than Pinochet’s Chile, but it backed the dodgy deals anyway [...]

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Vince Cable’s response to our campaign

Posted on February 9, 2012 by Maddy 0 comments

Vince Cable has responded to the Halloween demonstration outside his office by releasing new information on the origin of Egypt’s debt to the UK. Cable’s department has previously claimed that ‘details of the goods and services supplied under the individual contracts are no longer held’. The demonstration called for him to reveal the ‘debt skeletons’ [...]

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Clean Up Britain’s Exports – January update

Posted on February 1, 2012 by Maddy 0 comments

Keep your MP up to date on the latest developments in our campaign. Send this one-page letter to your MP (three easy steps) and let us know if your MP gets back to you !   Download the briefing

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Zimbabwe’s £210 million debt to the UK includes loans to Zimbabwe’s police force while they were engaged in internal repression.

Posted on December 13, 2011 by Maddy 0 comments

The Zimbabwean police were loaned money in the 1990s to buy 1,500 Land Rovers, backed by UK Export Finance (then known as the Export Credits Guarantee Department), a unit of the Department for Business. These loans continue to make-up £21 million of Zimbabwe’s debt to the UK. The evidence appears in a new report published [...]

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