The accelerating militarisation of Europe is affecting all modes of life and struggle. We are living through the biggest transfer of wealth from life to death. In the past months organisations, initiatives, networks and unions are organising to oppose a militarised future, putting forward the importance of the real safety and security of peoples that comes with peace and not the security of the profits of the weapon industry. In June the call to take the streets of Europe.

We have been witnessing unprecedented levels of destruction and a war on life itself. Genocides are being normalised, civilian infrastructure becoming the preferred target, international institutions paralysed by inaction.

Europe is no bystander.

Across the continent, governments are preparing citizens for war, reintroducing conscription, and diverting public resources to the war machine — while industry lines up to profit.

EU Institutions, keen to appease the global superpower, are content to aid imperial fantasies of reactionary forces as represented by Trump, Netanyahu and Alex Karp of Palantir: the red carpet is still rolled out, the weapons systems still exported, their bombers resupplied. This new age they wish to herald will be made even darker through expansion of software tested on Palestinians and built to maximise death and destruction.

We refuse this. And we are mobilising. Join us — in June in Brussels and across Europe!

In the name of “security,” the European Union and NATO are pushing an unprecedented military expansion. €800 billion is already being redirected toward arms — resources taken from healthcare, education, climate action, and social provision. Over the next decade this could rise to €6.8 trillion, as NATO pressures member states toward military spending of up to 5% of GDP.

This is a permanent war economy that will reshape every part of life in Europe and beyond:

• It deepens conflicts rather than resolving them. Pouring billions into weapons fuels global tensions and entrenches the logic that military force — not diplomacy — is Europe’s answer to every crisis.
• It accelerates an arms race. Countries will react to their neighbours arming, with more weapons. Armed borders, proliferation of military bases, and readiness to invest in nuclear weapons will become the new normal.
• It is a transfer of wealth from life to destruction. Every euro spent on weapons is a euro taken from social protection, just transition, and public services. Rearmament and the dismantling of our welfare systems are one and the same.
• It targets the next generation. A rearmed Europe will demand soldiers. Young people will be asked to fight and die in wars they did not choose. Moreover, it will leave future generations with even greater debt.
• It reshapes our societies. Militarisation brings surveillance, repression of dissent, and shrinking democratic space. War politics always carry authoritarian consequences.

We reject this direction. We stand for a Europe grounded in peace, democracy, human rights, and social and climate justice — a Europe that invests in care, solidarity, and international cooperation rather than in the arms industry.

Don’t forget to write us an email at action@stoprearm.org and to submit your action to the Calendar here!

Let this be the month in which the Europe of peace, rights and democracy makes itself visible in the streets!

• • Demo #14J Welfare not Warfare:
    When: 14 June, 15:00
    Where: Brussels North
  • Assembly:
    When: 14 June, 17:00 pm – 21:00 pm
    Where: Royal Library of Belgium (KBR), Boulevard de l’Empereur 4, near Pl. Jean Rey
  • For questions or requests, please contact: 14J@stoprearm.org
  • Decentralised actions:
    Write us an email at action@stoprearm.org and submit them to the calendar here!
    We are trying to collect all info together so please do let us know.

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