There have been loads of campaigns against the cruelties of war profiting companies, organisations or against the wrongdoings of the government related to arms trade and war.
With this site we want to present the most successful and far reaching campaigns in a profile. And perhaps you can draw good conclusion out of it and get ideas for your own campaign.

• AlliantAction
• Avrusta
• Bite the Bullet
• Block the Builders
• CAAT - Campaign against ECA's
• Smash EDO
• CAAT - Campaign against arms fairs
• Disarm UCL
  

Nonviolent action against paying for war

After the attacks of 11 September 2001, and the beginning of the war on terror, War Resisters' International began to practice tax resistance -- the withholding of a proportion of the income tax of its staff. The logic is simple: a certain percentage of every state's budget is allocated to the military -- the fighting of or preparation for war.

War Resisters' International has been asked to explain to Inland Revenue why it has not paid a portion of its employees' income tax deductions. Office coordinator Andreas Speck has sent the following letter in response.

The Guardian reported on 25 July on the judicial review of the "Peace Tax Seven" to guarantee the right to conscientious objection against military taxation:

'A group of conscientious objectors today lost a high court bid to stop their taxes being put toward military spending.

The "peace tax seven", backed by more than 50 supporters, asked Mr Justice Collins, sitting in London, for permission to seek a judicial review of a continuing government refusa