War is a Racket - Smedley Butler
Submitted by working class s... on Jan 31 2013 11:13
The transcript of a speech given in 1933 by former Major General Smedley Butler. Butler served in the US military for 34 years, and at the time of his death he was the most decorated soldier is US history...... WAR is a racket. It always has been It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of the people.
Only a small "inside" group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few, at the expense of the very many. Out of war a few people make huge fortunes.
Anarchist scaremongering at the Republican Convention
Submitted by working class s... on Aug 27 2012 14:17
If you have been reading the mainstream internet news recently, you could be forgiven for thinking that there is an impending large scale anarchist insurrection about to take place in Florida.
This week sees the start of the annual Republican convention in Tampa Bay. To say that there is a ‘security operation’ underway is an understatement.
The quiet mutiny (documentary)
Submitted by working class s... on Apr 4 2012 20:21
John Pilger’s controversial first documentary film created a sensation when it broke the story of a rebellion emerging within the American army fighting the War in Vietnam. Changing public and media perception of the war, The Quiet Mutiny contributed to the withdrawal of US troops from the region.
In this, the first of his 58 documentary films, John Pilger combines candid interviews and amazing frontline footage of Vietnam to portray a growing rift between the US military bureaucrats - "lifers" - and the soldiers who physically and mentally fight the war on the ground, the "grunts". By 1970, it is an internal sense of disillusionment and frustration born from this rift that is triggering the withdrawal of US forces from Vietnam.
As the US employs psychological warfare against its enemy, Pilger finds himself unable to glean significant information from the military; a press conference he attends is nicknamed "the 5 o'clock follies" for the evasive nature of the proceedings. And so it is with the grunts, the "wheels of the green machine", that Pilger finds a very human side to the US presence in Vietnam: soldiers who are at once ready to serve their country and doubtful of their purpose there. Plied with visits from Miss America and ignored by Vice President Spiro Agnew, they experience the war in a way many of their superiors do not.
Review via - http://www.bullfrogfilms.com/catalog/quiet.html
US warplane sabotaged at Shannon airport
Submitted by working class s... on Dec 28 2011 19:16
An anonymous group has subverted security at Shannon airport in Ireland, and damaged an American military aeroplane. They have issued a communique outlining their actions, which is reproduced here.
An unnamed group has claimed responsibility for subverting security at Shannon Airport, and damaging an American military warplane. The Irish police and airport authorities are baffled as to how the operation was carried out.
Mutiny in the RAF: the air force strikes of 1946 - David Duncan
Submitted by Spassmaschine on Aug 26 2009 02:04
Book documenting a 1946 series of strikes in the British Air Force that spread across much of the British Empire.
Published in the Socialist History Society Occasional Papers Series: No 8, 1998. Taken from the No War But The Class War website.
1938-1956: The tragedy of Karaganda
Submitted by Wayne on Jun 25 2008 12:45
The story of members of the CNT and other Spanish anti-fascists left stranded in the Soviet Union following the Spanish civil war.
Abstract: In March 1939, Republican soldiers who had been training as aviation pilots were stranded in the USSR along with the sailors of several vessels from the Spanish merchant navy. They were prevented from leaving and in 1941 were arrested and sent to Novosibirsk Transit Prison. Also detained were several civilians who had been working with children evacuated from the Civil War.
France: Airbus workers wildcat strike succeeds
Submitted by jef costello on Jun 5 2007 09:35
Airbus workers in France have won a higher salary increase and a one-off payment.
After wildcat stoppage last month at factories in Nantes and Saint-Nazaire, the unions (FO, CGC, CFTC and CFDT) could not agree to the latest offer before having taken it directly to the workers.
1919: The RAF Biggin Hill mutiny
Submitted by Steven. on Sep 9 2006 12:16
A short history of the victorious rebellion of British servicemen in the air force who were living in appalling conditions, soon after World War I.
1961-1973: GI resistance in the Vietnam war
Submitted by Steven. on Sep 3 2006 15:01
History of the widespread mutiny of US troops in Vietnam that brought the world's most powerful military machine to its knees. The GI anti-war movement within the army was one of the decisive factors in ending the war.
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2003: Israeli pilots refuse to fly assassination missions
Submitted by Steven. on Aug 20 2006 11:29
A group of Israeli airforce pilots declared yesterday that they would refuse to fly missions which could endanger civilians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
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