Declassified UK will host its first ever summit, Challenging the War Machine, on Saturday 31 January 2026 at EartH in Dalston, London.
The one-day summit will bring together journalists, activists, academics, campaigners and members of the public to examine how the UK’s war machine operates and, crucially, how we challenge it.
Challenging the War Machine is open to anyone interested in understanding the structures and systems that underpin the drive to war, and how we challenge it. We will firstly assess the crisis we are in and thereafter we’ll be answering questions such as -
How do we challenge the drive to war? How do we challenge the propaganda machines of the legacy media & cultivate independent media? How do we challenge UK support for Israel? How do we build an active majority against war and militarism?
Challenging the War Machine marks a major milestone for Declassified UK, bringing its reporting off the page and into a shared physical space for dialogue.
The summit will feature Declassified UK journalists and contributors alongside a wide range of independent media organisations and movement groups, including:
Organisations - Action on Armed Violence, Alborada, CAAT - Campaign Against the Arms Trade, CND - Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, Code Pink, Demilitarise Education, Drone Wars, Forces Watch, IMA - Independent Media Association, Irish Pages Press, Media Revolution, New Internationalist, PYM - Palestinian Youth Movement, Red Pepper Magazine, Shadow World Investigations, Stop The War, The Bristol Cable, The Canary.
Speakers - Ahmed Alnaouq, Alex Gordon, Andrew Feinstein, Anna Stavrianakis, Chris Kunzler, Dan Lambert, Des Freedman, Hamza Yusuf, Inès Khoury, Jason Hussein, Kate Hudson, Laura Webster, Lindsay German, Lowkey, Pablo Navarrete, Peter Oborne, Shahd Abusalama, Sophie Bolt.
The Declassified UK team - Mark Curtis, Laura Pidcock, Vicki Thomas, Phil Miller, John McEvoy, Dania Akkad, Martin Williams, Alex Morris and Hanna-Johara Dokal.
Join us - 9.15am-6pm | 31 January 2026 | EartH, Stoke Newington Rd, London N16 8BH
