anti-war
Articles opposing wars, and about anti-war movements.
Against Capitalist War! Against Capitalist Peace!
This article was written and distributed in Toronto by people of varying political perspectives (anarchist, communist and others) who have come together on a class basis to express opposition to capitalism and its wars.
CLASS STRUGGLE AGAINST THE WORK / WAR MACHINE!
The Vietnam Syndrome Revisited - Red and Black Notes
Red and Black Notes article looking at the situation in Iraq as the US becomes bogged down in a long term conflict, and comparing it to previous wars.
In the 1980's, activists produced a button that read "El Salvador is Spanish for Vietnam." Although it provided a punchy reminder of a bloody conflict, the comparison was inappropriate. While the US was supporting a repressive regime against a leftist insurgency, it committed little in the way of troops; moreover, unlike Vietnam, the US was successful in containing the insurgency.
No war but the class war! - Red and Black Notes
From the War in the Gulf, to the War at Home - article from Red and Black Notes on the need to fight the invasion of class war with class struggle at home.
On Wednesday March 19 2003 at about 9:30 PM, the United States and its allies began a murderous assault upon Iraq. The millions in the United States and around the world, who marched against war, have seen their "message" ignored. But war is the health of the modern state. Capital can no more give up war, than it can give up exploitation.
A plague on both your houses - Red and Black Notes
Internationalist article from Red and Black Notes on the then imminent 2003 invasion of Iraq.
For many with an interest in the impending war in Iraq, the conflict is about choosing sides.
Days like these - Red and Black Notes
Red and Black Notes editorial, looking at the results of the aftermath of the September 11 World Trade Centre attacks and the war in Afghanistan.
Days Like These
In a macabre co-incidence, at the same time as officials in New York announced the death toll in the destruction of the World Trade Center towers had dipped below 3,000, news sources around the world were announcing that casualties in Afghanistan had exceeded 4,000. For those who had invoked the rational of "an eye for an eye," the score ought to have been settled and then some.
You are called to the war - Sylvia Pankhurst
Article in Workers' Dreadnought opposing the involvement of the Allied nations in the Russian Civil War.
Wake up! Wake up! Oh, sleepy British people! The new war is in full blast, and you are called to fight in it; you cannot escape; you must take part!
A people's history of World War I - Howard Zinn
Historian Howard Zinn's account of US involvement in World War I, the reasons behind it, and working class resistance to it.
March 2003: Schoolkids against the Iraqi War
The actions of schoolkids in March 2003 throughout the world were perhaps the most interesting aspect of the opposition to the Iraqi war.
Undoubtedly they failed to stop the war, surprise, surprise. They fizzled out as it became obvious that the war would just go on despite what was done in the streets.
Blocking progress: consensus decision making in the anti-nuclear movement
Howard Ryan argues that consensus is wrong in principle and in practice: "The problem is not so much that individuals are being irresponsible or somehow abusing the consensus process. The problem lies in giving individuals that kind of power in the first place. Consensus turns majority rule into minority rule. That's not democracy."
Ryan continues, "voting and consensus can both involve forms of coercion, i.e. forcing one party to accept the decision of another. The difference is that with voting the will of the majority holds sway, while under consensus an individual or minority wields the power through exercise of the block or veto.
Brighton arms factory 'decommissioned' in Gaza protest
9 people have gained entry to the ITT/EDO MBM arms factory in Brighton, where they are believed to have caused extensive damage to the offices, and to industrial tooling used to make arms.
The factory produces weapons components including the 'zero retention force arming units' and 'ejector release unit 151' which the Smash EDO/ITT campaign says are supplied to the Israeli Air Force. In a phone call from inside the factory the 'decommisioners' said they were acting in solidarity with the people of Gaza, who have recently been on the receiving end of the factories products.
