anti-war
Articles opposing wars, and about anti-war movements.
Commentaries #1: War in Iran? Why we must oppose sanctions
The first in a new series of pamphlets from the Brighton-based Aufheben collective, intended to supplement the annual magazine by responding to developing events. Published and distributed in March 2006.
Attached as a print-friendly pdf file below.
Teamsters local opposes Iraq war - Uprise! press release
Press release from revolutionary UPS workers group Uprise! announcing its Teamsters Local 705 approving its resolution to oppose the drive for the Iraq war.
Anti-war school walkouts, 2003 - AYN discussions
Extracts from the Anarchist Youth Network's open email discussion with information-sharing and discussion about the walkouts of school students which occured against the Iraq war as it began in March 2003. While there was a lot of potential AYN failed to make a collective impact on them.
Against capitalist war, against capitalist peace - AYN leaflet
An anti-Iraq war leaflet by the Anarchist Youth Network in 2003. The authors no longer think the leaflet is very good, but it is reproduced here for reference in text and PDF formats.
Capitalist war
A phenomenal anti-war movement? - Aufheben
The movement against the war on Iraq was larger and more exciting than other recent anti-war movements. This article focuses on the organization and character of the movement in the UK, and describes how some of the dynamics of the movement as a whole were played out in one UK city, where we were involved.
We argue that the feeling that what happened was challenging lay not so much in the nature of the actions, but rather in the number and variety of people brought into the movement and in the failure of the liberal peace movement to exercise the usual control.
Resistance to the 1991 Gulf War - Treason pamphlet
This pamphlet - a collection of articles - was prepared for the Zerowar conference which was held in Wollongong on the 8th of December 2002.
1912: The syndicalist trials
A short history of the trials and legal repression of radical trade unionists in the UK in the early twentieth century.
The relatively high degree of political liberty which was enjoyed during the first decade of the twentieth century in this country was the result of the continuous struggle which radicals and reformists had waged against their rulers for a century and a half.
1990-1991: Resistance to the Gulf War
An account of the worldwide movement of resistance to the 1990-91 Gulf War. The resistance mainly took the form of strikes, marches, base blockades and refusals to fight.
Do you remember the first time?
18. The Impossible Victory: Vietnam
From 1964 to 1972, the wealthiest and most powerful nation in the history of the world made a
maximum military effort, with everything short of atomic bombs, to defeat a nationalist
revolutionary movement in a tiny, peasant country-and failed. When the United States fought in
Vietnam, it was organized modern technology versus organized human beings, and the human
beings won.
1961-1973: GI resistance in the Vietnam War
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.
[i]An American soldier in a hospital explained how he was wounded: He said
