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MORE than 150 protesters have called for a “people’s arms embargo” on Israel, as they once again bring one of the world’s biggest arms manufacturer’s Edinburgh plant to a standstill.
Waving the flag of Palestine and linking arms at the factory gates, campaigners braved the sub-zero temperatures of a Scottish winter to blockade the Leonardo UK site from 5am on Wednesday morning as they demanded the company sever ties with Israel.
The company paid £400 million in dividends to its shareholders last year and raked-in over £1.2 billion in profit over the last two years from it activities, which include manufacturing laser targeting technology for the F-35 jets being used to devastating effect by Israeli forces laying waste to Gaza and slaughtering more than 42,000 people in the process.

There are only two things that stand between workers and the musket’s volley today - the ballot and the union, asserts MATT KERR