Monstrous Anger of the Guns

Rhona Michie is the Director of Projects and Planning at Shadow World Investigations and a co-founder of the Corruption Tracker. She was listed as an Emerging Expert by the Forum on the Arms Trade in 2022 and is a member of the Steering Committee of Campaign Against Arms Trade. Andrew Feinstein is the Executive Director of Shadow World Investigations. He resigned as an African National Congress Member of Parliament in South Africa in 2001, protesting the government’s refusal to investigate corruption in a $10 billion arms deal. He is the author of The Shadow World: Inside the Global Arms Trade, an internationally acclaimed exposé later adapted into a prize-winning documentary. Paul Rogers is an Emeritus Professor of Peace Studies at Bradford University and International Security Advisor to openDemocracy. He is the author of Losing Control: Global Security in the 21st Century. Jeremy Corbyn is a socialist MP, founder and director of the Peace and Justice Project. He has served for 40 years as MP for Islington North in London, was twice elected leader of the Labour Party and is a Parliamentary Member of the Council of Europe. He is a lifelong campaigner for peace, justice and human rights and has been awarded prizes for promoting peace, including the Seán MacBride Peace Prize for his sustained and powerful political work for disarmament and peace.

Preface by Jeremy Corbyn (Peace and Justice Project)

Introduction by Andrew Feinstein (Shadow World Investigations), Rhona Michie (Shadow World Investigations and the Corruption Tracker), and Paul Rogers (University of Bradford and openDemocracy)



Part I: The Global Arms Trade

1. The Global Arms Trade: How It Works, and How We Might Control It - Anna Stavrianakis (University of Sussex)

2. If You Have a Hammer, Everything Looks Like a Nail: How guns define international relations - Vijay Prashad (Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research)

3. The Palestine Laboratory 2024 - Antony Loewenstein (Declassified Australia)



Part II: The Humanitarian Impact of the Arms Trade

4. Militarism and the Climate Emergency - Stuart Parkinson (Scientists for Global Responsibility)

5. The Human Cost of the Arms Trade in Gaza - Ahmed Alnouaq (We Are Not Numbers)

6. Undermining the Chance for Peace in Yemen - Mwatana for Human Rights

7. The scourge of arms in East Africa - Tabitha Agaba and Ian Katusiime

8. Arms Trade in the Land of Gandhi: The Military Industrial Complex and Its Impact on India - Binalakshmi Nepram (Manipur Women Gun Survivors Network)

9. The Market of Death as Seen from Latin America - Ana Penido (Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research)



Part III: Global Campaigns Against the Arms Trade

10. A Mass Movement Against Weapons and War - Lindsey German (Stop the War)

11. Direct Action Against the Arms Trade - Palestine Action

12. Workers Against the Arms Trade - Lorenzo Buzzoni

13. Youth Campaigns Against the Arms Trade - Carmen Wilson (Demilitarise Education)

14. Strategic Litigation Against the Global Arms Trade: Countering Irresponsibility under International and Domestic Arms Control Law - Valentina Azarova (Emergent Justice Collective)

15. Lynchpin of the Pacific: Ending the Militarisation of Hawaiʻi - Kawenaʻulaokalā Kapahua (Hawaiian Independence movement)



Conclusion - Andrew Feinstein, Rhona Michie, and Paul Rogers

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