Shut Down Leonardo Southampton

16/10/2026

16/10/2026

Leonardo UK Southampton - transition to peaceful production now! Leafletting campaign continues outside the civic centre! 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸

Yesterday we gathered outside of the civic centre for our regular, weekly vigil - we also leafletted passing-by cars with information about the weapons factory in our city, deeply embroiled in the zionist war crimes destroying entire bloodlines of Palestinians.

Hundreds of thousands took to the streets of London last week in solidarity with Palestine, yet our government continues to try to manipulate the public to think that meaningful action is being taken to address the steady flow of weapons, from factories across Britain, into the hands of an occupying force responsible for a live-streamed genocide.

Continuing to mobilise around these points of production remains pressing, and we hope you will join us for our regular factory vigil outside of the Leonardo UK Southampton factory next week.

Leonardo UK’s Edinburgh site produces laser-targeting components for the F-35 genocide jet. Leonardo’s Southampton factory specialises in infrared detectors and thermal imaging sensors for missile guidance and target identification.

Both are therefore key-players in the field of electro-optics and sensor technology, and both are part of the F-35 murder supply chain, as they collaborate closely through a shared digital framework, called the Common Data Environment (CDE) to accelerate shared product design and manufacture.

Since 2001, the UK has spent more than £51 billion on participating in wars on Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya, as well as connected military operations across west Asia and North Africa, according to new research from the Transition Security Project. Starmer’s government committed £298 billion towards so-called “defence spending”, and so far Burnham has towed the line of his predecessor’s imperialist foot steps, recently committing to “defensive” military for Saudi Arabia as it bombs Yemen.

Despite all this, people have the power to say no to this grotesque spending on weapons and death abroad. It is up to people across the country to continue to mobilise and resist our government’s war machine.

10/10/2026

✊ Back at the civic centre for our regular weekly vigil against weapons produced in Britain being used to further genocides and imperialist violence around the world ✊

All aligned with this aim are very welcome join us to help build the campaign, and coming to our regular weekly vigils is a great way to get more involved!

08/10/2026

Three years later, the UK government's involvement is still very much enabling the continuing genocide of the Palestininan people, despite their best efforts to cover up their complicity.

Huge thanks to everyone who continues to turn up at our vigils to keep this important issue in the public eye - yesterday's show of support from passing drivers and pedestrians was amazing and unprecedented.

There will be a Palestine support march in London this Saturday (10th October) to mark three years of genocide, please attend if you can:

https://www.stopwar.org.uk/events/national-march-for-palestine-5/

Please watch this space for details of next week's vigil 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸

06/10/2026

Three years of live streamed zionist genocide. Settler colonial genocide since 1948.

Please join us this Wednesday 7 October, 5pm on the green outside the civic centre! If you are looking to get involved in campaigning against our local weapons factory - Leonardo UK - we hope you will join our regular vigils ✊📣🇵🇸

01/10/2026

Yesterday, as eight people - including a journalist - were killed by continuing Israeli air strikes against Gaza, and Trump issued the genocidal threat of wanting to blow up Iran, we returned to the Civic Centre for our weekly presence bearing witness to the multiple imperialist wars being waged by these two out-of-control murderous states.

Huge thanks to everyone who was there yesterday, this month marks the third consecutive year of non-stop slaughter, destruction and displacement of the Palestinian people and our vigils are an important reminder that the butchery has never stopped, despite the so-called ceasefire that came into force a year ago and has so far resulted in at least 1431 Palestinian deaths.

Despite Milliband's recent promise of action, UK involvement in this ongoing slaughter has not been addressed in any meaningful way. True action would involve comprehensive and effective economic sanctions and a wholesale ban on the sale of weapons to Israel, including from companies such as Leonardo UK , with a factory in our city.

To mark the third anniversary of the Israeli assault on Gaza, next week's London demo on 10th October is expected to be a large one. Please be there if you can.

More locally, please watch this space for details of the next Southampton vigil 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸

26/09/2026

Next vigil outside of the civic centre - Wednesday 30 Sept 📣✊📣✊

Until Leonardo UK and all British weapon and tech companies stop facilitating the zionist genocide of Gaza and US-Israeli imperialism across the region.

Please share widely to help spread the word!

24/09/2026

Shut down Leonardo Southampton - factory vigil - Wednesday 23 September 2026 🇵🇸 🇵🇸 🇵🇸

We returned to the factory yesterday to continue to continue our steady presence opposing Leonardo UK’s death factory in our city!

We continue to mobilise weekly in solidarity with the people of Palestine, Lebanon, Iran, Syria, Iraq, Yemen, as well as all those across Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean who have suffered under the forces of US imperialism for decades. If we consider West Asia and the African continent, British colonialism remains a root cause of the devastating death-tolls and suffering occurring in the region today.

Leonardo UK’s Edinburgh site produces laser-targeting components for the F-35 genocide jet. Leonardo’s Southampton factory specialises in infrared detectors and thermal imaging sensors for missile guidance and target identification.

Both are therefore key-players in the field of electro-optics and sensor technology, and both are part of the F-35 murder supply chain, as they collaborate closely through a shared digital framework, called the Common Data Environment (CDE) to accelerate shared product design and manufacture.

Saudi Arabia continues to strike Yemen, and the British government is once again hiding behind the euphemism of “defensive” to try to cover up its backing of the imperialist violence western governments, and western-aligned governments are inflicting onto the majority of the world.

Burnham is continuing to follow in Starmer’s footprints, promising “defensive military support” to Saudi Arabia, just as he has followed Starmer’s line on the use of UK based in the US-Israeli war on Iran.

Leonardo UK, alongside BAE and Airbus, is a key partner in the Eurofighter Typhoon programme, which was used in Saudi Arabia’s ruthless bombing of Yemen from 2015 - 2022. As Saudi Arabia began bombing Yemen again at the start of this year, we know that Leonardo stands to profit once again from this blood-shed.

Please watch this space for details about next week's vigil!

22/09/2026

Back at the factory this week as we continue weekly vigils against all British arms exports arming genocides and imperialist violence around the world!

Back at the factory this week as we continue weekly vigils against all British arms exports arming genocides and imperialist violence around the world!

Unfortunately there is a risk the far-right may counter this vigil. Please do not engage in any way with the far right and be aware they will likely be filming. Key safety guidelines outlined below:

We encourage:
- changing your name from your legal name on social media if you are commenting on or sharing our posts
- Not speaking the names of anyone attending if the far right are present
- travelling to the vigil in groups, and leaving in groups

We also encourage masking at this vigil for public health. Please be aware as well that the far right rely on racism, Islamophobia, transphobia and homophobia as part of their violent ideology. If you are not feeling safe to attend the vigil, we will support this decision.

From Lebanon to Palestine, occupation is a crime! Tech for people’s liberation, not for war and occupation!

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15/09/2026

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