Anna Stavrianakis
Arms trade, militarism, global insecurities and global (dis)order @ Uni Sussex and Shadow World Investigations
- The fabulous @declassifieduk.org team in action! Great to hear them talk first hand about their work
- Two postdocs and a graduate research assistant position at Sussex with @lindsaycclark.bsky.social on "Technology and the (future) Human in War"! Postdoc: jobs.sussex.ac.uk/job/36e1adc2...; RA: jobs.sussex.ac.uk/job/b62df692... - apply by 11 Feb!
- Reposted by Anna Stavrianakis👇 Come and do my job at Spotlight! It's a fantastic opportunity to work with brilliant people tackling an important issue that affects us all. #anticorruption @charitycomms.bsky.social
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- @tkbarnes.bsky.social is a superb journalist: and I love this latest post of revealing tidbits. I agree that "every day is a day to report on and read about the people and places tied up in the $1 trillion Pentagon budget"! inkstick.substack.com/p/the-reveal...
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- Brilliant research from Open Secrets in South Africa: UAE selling armoured vehicles to Sudan, DRC, as 'made in the UAE' but actually South African-designed, built by South African engineers using South African parts, in Emirati free zones - www.opensecrets.org.za/how-an-sa-ar...
- Reposted by Anna StavrianakisBritish-made weapons were used by the US to attack Venezuela on 3rd January. Starmer, instead of condemning these violations of international law, cheered it on. Shameful.
- Thanks to @pollypw.bsky.social and Judith Koch for this conversation! Great to talk all things arms trade for an hour.
- What is the arms trade, and how does it shape our world? In our first @europeanisa.bsky.social Voices episode of 2026, I talk to the indomitable @annastavrianakis.bsky.social to explore this question and much more… voices-the-eisa-podcast.podigee.io/39-new-episode
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- Reposted by Anna Stavrianakis📢 CAAT is hiring a Supporter Development Manager! We're looking for a skilled communicator & natural relationship builder to join our team. You'll be responsible for the recruitment, retention & engagement of supporters, as well as fundraising. ➡️ Apply now: caat.org.uk/about-caat/j...
- Reposted by Anna StavrianakisI'm writing about the Palestine Action hunger strikers at the moment, any of whom could die at any moment, and the astonishing media and government silence surrounding them. The Establishment seems to have become even crueller than when Thatcher was PM.
- Reposted by Anna Stavrianakis🧵Collection of concerns expressed about US actions in #Venezuela today (Jan 3, 2026) -- from Congress, civil society, and others. Feel free to share and add on. (The Forum does not take responsibility for these statements. It does share them for public awareness)
- It's terrifying that today might be the day a hunger striker dies - allowed to die by the state, for demanding a fair trial: www.thecanary.co/uk/news/2025...
- This, with Katy Fox-Hodess and Rafeef Ziadah, looks amazing. Can’t wait to listen. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
- Reposted by Anna StavrianakisSGR’s campaigner Laura Shewan documents how UK universities are clamping down on student protests while deepening ties with the arms industry. www.sgr.org.uk/resources/di... 🧪
- Wanna figure out why the world is such a mess? Join us to study and find out! Online Sussex open day 29 November - www.sussex.ac.uk/study/visit-...
- What better gift for the festive season for your loved ones than a comprehensive feminist analysis of the global war economy? Edited by the fabulous @hozic.bsky.social and Jacqui True and with a chapter by yours truly - www.routledge.com/War-Economy-...
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- Reposted by Anna StavrianakisWhile the US & Europe ramp up military spending, millions live in poverty. Today, we launch Transition Security Project, investigating how militarisation makes us poorer and less safe amid climate crisis — and what genuine security could look like. 🧵 transitionsecurity.org
- Today! I am delighted to be a fellow of the TSP - tune in to hear what the project is all about!
- 🚨 ONLINE EVENT Join us for a free panel on the war economy, the climate impacts of war & the geopolitics of the climate transition. Speakers: @stephensemler.bsky.social, @triofrancos.bsky.social & @iliasalami.bsky.social, chaired by @lalehkhalili.bsky.social 📅 16 Oct 6PM BST 🔗 shorturl.at/NwJCL
- Why we need a two-way arms embargo on Israel: politicalquarterly.org.uk/blog/why-the...
- Reposted by Anna Stavrianakis🎉 We are OPEN now for abstract, roundtable and panel submissions for #BISA2026 🎉 'Is International Studies ready for what comes next? New thinking, new directions' 🌎 Submit here! 👉 buff.ly/kK9oIlM @visitbrighton.bsky.social @simonrushton.bsky.social @julietdryden.bsky.social
- And for our Italian-speaking friends! www.vignarca.net/2025/09/lett...
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- Hundreds and hundreds of protesters at the DSEI arms fair today, of all ages, races, genders and faiths, making their presence felt as the suited and booted, mostly male, mostly white delegates went for their big jolly - www.middleeasteye.net/news/protest...
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- Reposted by Anna StavrianakisThis made my day today. Police pulled over a dalek outside DSEI, London's arms fair, scanned the QR code on its lanyard and were taken to my fake Royal Navy recruitment website - royalnavy.org.uk
- Excellent short read - especially pertinent as flags are going up in Brighton and, crucially, being taken down again by anti-fascists
- While there can be no complacency in countering fascists on the streets, concerns about the far right must also be concerns about the role of mainstream politicians and media in shaping the reactionary agenda aurelmondon.medium.com/the-people-l...
- Saturday afternoon be like 💪
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- Classic UK govt move: there is a useful fiction of the separation between arms companies and governments. So the UK gets to look like it did something good while materially enabling the bad stuff to happen and letting the Israeli govt cry wolf about how badly it’s treated.
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- I wrote a short, open-access account of how the High Court ended up accepting the UK govt's argument that protecting "international peace and security" means arming genocide in Palestine: please read and share - onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
- Excellent taster of their new book - thank you Rafeef, Adam and Robert! podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/p...
- Reposted by Anna StavrianakisPerhaps, one day, schoolkids will study this squalid little chapter in British terror-panic history. When they do, I hope these two headlines from today are printed side by side, with clear annotation of which individual faced more outrage and condemnation.
- The three best ideas I’ve had for how to organise my book have come when I’m 1) not sitting at the computer and 2) physically moving. Apparently the body isn’t just a receptacle for the brain.
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- Reposted by Anna StavrianakisWe have had a report saying two women walking up to a protest today at BAe Samlesbury were stopped by Lancashire Police and advised to remove their t-shirts that say 'Free Palestine', as it may "breach the proscription order". And so it begins.
- OK @pcsunion.bsky.social members in the Home Office, let's go! "Are they really going to prosecute as terrorists everyone who expresses support for Palestine Action’s work to disrupt the flow of arms to Israel as it commits war crimes?" Time to get organised! www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
- not so fast, Yvette - palestineaction.org/urgent-heari...
- Just so we’re clear: UK arming Israel’s genocide is legal but trying to stop it is a terrorist offence and now the BBC is equating the IDF with all Jewish people and accusing artists of anti semitism.
- Terrible day for justice: the High Court has ruled against Al Haq in the judicial review of UK arms exports to Israel. 3 main types of reasoning: 1) that some of the issues are non-justiciable ie can't be adjudicated in a UK court of law. So what is the point of export controls?/
- Get online at 10:30 to see if UK arms sales to Israel are deemed legal or not by the High Court: www.middleeasteye.net/news/high-co... - link for where to see the news in the article
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- You have 48 hours to get your free e-copy of Monstrous Anger of the Guns, the @shadowworldinv1.bsky.social book about how the arms trade is ruining the world and what we can do about it! www.plutobooks.com/978074535036...
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- Oh hey Christian Turner i also have some recommendations. Seeing as “It is the political director’s job to engage with a range of voices across multiple issues to ensure informed policy making” I am sure your staff will be in touch for an appointment asap
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- Don't let the UK govt's confected outrage distract you from the key thing it could do to stop the carnage in Palestine: halt all military collaboration with and arms sales to/from Israel - thanks to @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social for hosting my piece - www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/uk-r...
- Reposted by Anna Stavrianakis'I just don't buy it.' Professor Anna Stavrianakis of @shadowworldinv1.bsky.social criticizes the UK government's position that it can't track parts for its F-35 programme with Israel. Sign up to our Currents newsletter for more from this week's hearing 👉 a.nin.tl/3x
- Reposted by Anna StavrianakisJoin us June 13th with @jeremycorbyn.bsky.social @ahmedalnaouq.bsky.social @franceskalbs.bsky.social @andrewfeinstein.bsky.social @tninstitute.bsky.social to discuss how we can break the downward spiral of militarisation, skyrocketing arms exports, and unaccountability for war crimes & genocide. 1/2
- Every day I learn something new about the casual brutality of Israel's assault on Palestinians. Today it's that Israel is the first air force to use F-35 fighter jets in "beast mode", allowing it to carry more & heavier bombs. I can just imagine the dudes coming up with the name.
- Today I'm mostly drafting an op-ed piece about arms sales to Israel. Will share a link once it's up. But for now, leaving here that it was initially pitched to the Guardian and the Independent but apparently it's not a theme they are looking for at the moment. Cos, you know, nothing to see here...
- BBC reports that "UK suspends Israel trade talks and summons ambassador over 'intolerable' Gaza offensive" - I look forward to a forthcoming announcement of an immediate suspension of all arms export licences, which would materially halt Israel's offensive
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- Just the Labour govt licensing more arms to Israel October to December 2024 than the Tories did in 2020-2023 combined... Mostly military radars, components, software, targeting equipment - and granted after the announcement of a temporary arms suspension on 2 Sept 2024: caat.org.uk/news/new-fig...
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- It’s hard to overstate this: the govt is saying that “the alleged damage to international peace and security” that suspending F35 parts might have was “a matter of such gravity … that it would have overridden” any serious breaches of IHL in Gaza
- There is NO meaningful detail of ANY “alleged damage” to int. peace & security - it’s all in the closed papers. Only Special Advocates & judge can see those. Observers will scour the eventual judgment for insight. But this is carte blanche exercise of state power. What work is law doing here?
- Bear in mind the excruciating detail that civil society experts are required to give, to even make the case for considering restrictions on arms exports. But the state just gets to say “international peace and security” and the legal system and public opinion are supposed to just accept it
- In the week I'm watching the UK defend a legal case against its arms exports to Israel, it feels both surreal and timely that my article about how the UK manages controversy over its arms sales to Saudi Arabia is published (open access): www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
- Govt says the “immensely serious and imminent risks to international peace and security” mean it needs to continue allowing F35 parts to go to the global pool and on to Israel. What are these risks? *checks notes* “It would undermine US confidence in the UK and NATO”.
