Police are investigating after activists vandalised a Glasgow industrial facility operated by Component Coating and Repair Services, part of Curtiss-Wright.
Red paint was thrown across the building and security fencing early on Thursday.
A Police Scotland spokesperson said: “On the morning of Thursday, 27 November, 2025, we received a report of damage to a premises on Spiersbridge Terrace in Glasgow. Enquiries are ongoing.”
The group behind the vandalism said they targeted the site because, in their view, it supports military aircraft programmes and weapons systems. Their statement associates the Glasgow facility with electronic-warfare work for the F-35, computer systems for combat aircraft and drones, and components linked to US and Israeli military platforms.
Those descriptions do not align with what we know to be accurate on the operation at Spiersbridge Terrace. Curtiss-Wright lists the Glasgow facility as a specialist coating and component-repair centre for turbine and aerospace hardware, providing services such as diffusion and overlay coatings, vacuum brazing and Ipcote protective treatments. Typical work includes refurbishing or coating turbine blades, nozzle guide vanes, flame tubes and other industrial or aerospace parts for customers like Rolls-Royce, Siemens and GE.
The Scottish site also provides corrosion- and erosion-resistant coatings for oil and gas components. The Glasgow facility does not manufacture electronic-warfare equipment, drone systems or the weapons-related components described by the activists.
Looks like more people need to go on the terrorist register. Perhaps we should ban anyone connected with palastine action from collecting benefits as none of them appear to work and most seem to be claiming disability.
I get your feelings, but that’d be a poor move. The Palestine Action prescription has backfired – it’s become an incentive to protest violently as opposed to deterring it.
Whats the answer then?
Do nothing because proscribing belligerent activists is ‘Undemocratic ‘?
Something must be done to punish those caught, and to deter those who think this type of vandalism is politically justified.
There’s no clean solution. I’d prefer upping the maximum sentences for trespass, criminal damage, et cetera.
Go more the route of ‘You’re welcome to fuck around, that’s your right, but here are the consequences’.
100% agree. until they start planting bombs, killing people, etc… bit of a stretch to label them terrorists.
Yeah once some-ones killed that’ll confirm it once and for all. With any luck it could even be for Christmas, that would really focus peoples attention.
A start would be designating actions on defence related sites as Criminal Trespass not Civil Trespass.
I don’t think they care about Gaza – it’s an excuse that left wing activists use to justify violence against the state and defence related companies. Their ultimate goal is to ‘accelerate’ the end of capitalism. If they wanted, there are many other ways to legally contribute to the welfare of Gazan’s and yet they still choose to support a proscribed organisation. They don’t have to… it’s a deliberate choice. They don’t demonstrate about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, or the plight of the Sudanese. Why? Because it doesn’t fit their left wing agenda, which is more about British politics than anything in the Middle East.
Proscribing the groups seem reasonable and they are certainly more than just ‘activists’. If anything, they give activists a bad name, as a lot of social good has came from activist work. A distinction must surely also be drawn with those claiming they “support” PA, as a form of protest, and those types of groups themselves. As it seems we’re in a pre-war stage perhaps treating industrial saboteurs as enemies of the state with greater penalties (more jail time) is necessary, but we should be careful not to damage what we’re trying to protect in the process – a free (albeit imperfect/work-in-progress) democracy.
Perhaps the government could consider introducing terrorist awareness training to teach terrorists how to correctly identify their targets. This doesn’t seem to be anything specifically to do with what’s going on in Palestine.
This would have to be a new part of the benefits system adding TaT alongside PiP?
PiP for TaT
Very good!
So this isn’t the place drove a van into loading bay door and then attacked with a sledgehammer, and allegedly hit a police officer in the spine with the sledgehammer?
Nope. That happened ages back… Trashed the place that was sending recon drones to Ukraine as well as their Parent Companies obligations.
Ah, I thought that one was the other day. It must have been just the release of the bodycam footage because of the trial. Nothing about Ukraine, but mentioned drone parts, but the factory provides parts for the British military, not Israeli. Apart from being part of the parent Israeli company. Thanks for clearing that up.
I don’t think you can stop people who peacefully demonstrate against what they see as a just cause, that’s a slippery slope away from a free society.
However when you start to do some digging about Palestinian Action and their backers you really have to scratch your head in disbelief.
They are well organised and very well funded, hence the promise to their followers of fully paid, top of the line legal representation if they are prosecuted. Top London Barristers are funded by 2 prime sources and as far as I can see most of them are American, some elements of the large endowed foundations of very prominent Tech Billionaires are duped into supporting related causes.
But the central organiser and source of their funding is an American multi millionaire by the name of James “Fergie” Chambers who lives in Tunis but has a huge fortune from when he was bought out of Cox Enterprises by his other family members.
He is a dedicated Marxist Leninist with a taste for funding civil disturbance protest movements, he is very Pro Hamas, Iran but his main interest at present is supporting Putin and his invasion of Ukraine.
Yep essentially a anti western none state actor..
Where’s James Bond when you need him…
I think my problem is the Uk government has been down the slippy slope for a long time now of labelling a lot of stuff under terror laws and by their nature the terror laws are very much anti British culture around the rule of law.. if your charged under terror laws you loss a lot of the protections around normal crimes.
Now one of the issues is that essentially the state has reacted to what is essentially political warfare activity by state and none state actors and labelling it Terrorism.. but a lot of it is not.. saying something on the internet is not terrorism, putting on a T-shirt is not terrorism, neither is peaceful protest or even direct action..
In reality terrorism is “ the unlawful use of violence and intimidation, especially against civilians, in the pursuit of political aims.” … it’s really not spraying paint or saying something stupid on Facebook or having a T-shirt or being a bit to left or right wing.. But according to the state they now are, and if you are suspected of any of these things you loss a lot of your legal protection against charging threshold, search and investigation as well as using historic convictions as evidence.
Personally I think there needs to a separation from true terrorists as our society really understands it ( actually doing things that cause real serious physical harm or threaten real serious physical harm to intimidate for political means. so using a bomb or threatening a bomb scare) and some of the more endemic politically motives crimes we are now seeing across the spectrum from useful idiots and paid polical warfare operatives.)
So the recent sledgehammer attack on a police officer identified in the media -if proven – counts as what exactly- just ABH, or GBH if the perpetrator is unlucky ?
I can’t agree with that as they are intimidating civilians working for companies they just don’t agree – so akin to terrorism.
If, as alleged ,they have expensive legal backing from a -supposed-non state actor , then they are not just the ‘useful idiots’ holding placards in sit down protests , and should be tried accordingly.
If certain crimes are allowed to be portrayed as for the ‘right end’ and for the ‘good of the people’ then all you do is normalise and ultimately encourage that behaviour.
I think we both know where the sledge hammer attack sits if it’s politically motivated it’s terrorism as it hit the violence and political buttons.. painting with walls with shouting, tying yourself to railings and donning a T-shirts is not.
Hi Jonathan – that is a good summary. I would add “intent” to cause harm” as the definition of terrorism. If I were a judge, Id have this lot serve a few years in the Sudan or the Ukraine as victim support for civilian casualties. Broaden their horizons and reflect upon their prior racist ideology.
People who attack the UK should not be allowed to live in the. The UK has more than enough home grown felons. Why keep foreign felons?