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.
The bomb, direct action and the state
A pamphlet by the Syndicalist Workers' Federation on the attitude of various parties towards nuclear weapons and the means by which disarmament would be achieved. Written in the 1960s.
Italian war industry in recession times
Submitted by StrugglesInItaly on Jul 28 2012 08:02
Italian firm Alenia Aermarchi agrees to produce war planes for the Israeli Army. Other producers refuse to engage in military production, economic crisis notwithstanding.
Nuclear power is great for business - Workers Playtime
A short article by Workers Playtime advocating class war as a means to eradicate nuclear weapons.
The struggle in the factory: history of a Royal Ordnance Factory
Submitted by T La Palli on Jul 28 2011 12:27
The History of Dalmuir R.O.F. is the history of any other war-time factory, it is the story of the workers' struggle against the forces of capitalism aided an abetted by the fakirs of the trade unions and the Communist Party. Faced with these odds it is creditable that the workers did not succumb entirely, and that a band of them continued in opposition and endeavoured to preserve some degree of sanity throughout the welter of lies, distortions and intrigue that surrounded the worker.
"Join the banana club": Memories of the Brambles Farm Peace Camp, 1982
Submitted by Wellclose Square on Jun 7 2010 12:04
A personal recollection of one of the many 'peace camps' which sprang up as part of the movement against nuclear and other weaponry in the UK in the early 1980s. It muses on some of the factors which distinguished this camp from others of the time, particularly the implicit tension between a diffuse social criminality or indiscipline associated with younger participants, and the po-faced respectability of those happy to affirm the elitist 'political criminality' of peace activism on the one hand, or parliamentary democracy on the other .
US military researching microwave crowd control weapons
Submitted by Choccy on Jul 26 2009 22:49
The United States military is still researching a controversial microwave weapon that could be deployed against crowds from aircraft.
Masters of war
As 2007 began, Robert Walsh looked into the world of arms dealing for Freedom newspaper as pressure piled up on BAE systems over their arms sales to dictators scandal.
South African workers refuse to move arms bound for Zimbabwe
Submitted by dara on Apr 18 2008 17:42
South African Transport Union members have announced they will not offload Chinese arms that are being shipped to crisis-torn Zimbabwe.
US: Machinists to strike against Raytheon
Submitted by Mike Harman on Oct 16 2006 08:41
Machinists working for Raytheon Missile Systems have voted almost unanimously to go on strike.
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