Iraq war
Articles about the US-UK war with Iraq which began in 2003, and opposition to it.
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
American defeat: an anti-state communist perspective on the war in Iraq, 2003 - Kevin Keating
Keating's analysis of the US-UK war in Iraq, which we disagree with and which contains numerous flaws, including casual anti-semitism. We reproduce it for reference only.
American defeat: an anti-state communist perspective on the Iraq 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.
The corporate plunder of Iraq
The looting of billions of dollars of Iraq’s oil wealth is unprecedented in the history of corporate crime, writes criminologist Dave Whyte.
The neo-liberal transformation of Iraq is portrayed as a humanitarian venture. Western corporations and occupying governments now talk of the liberation of Iraq from the “tyranny of Saddam’s planned economy”.
No War but the Class War comic
A comic made on the eve of the 2003 war on Iraq calling for working class unity across borders and class war against capital rather than national unity and war.
Walthamstow anarchists' war memorial clean-up
Weeds, litter and leaves were cleared from an "unkempt" war memorial by a political group at the weekend.
From the Waltham Forest Guardian:
Political group’s great clean-up
By Mark Killiner
WEEDS, litter and leaves were cleared from an "unkempt" war memorial by a political group at the weekend.
Walthamstow Anarchist Group (WAG) collected five bags of refuse from the area around the memorial at the Territorial Army barracks in Lea Bridge Road on Saturday.
Melbourne fare evasion against the Iraq war
Leaflet calling for mass public transport fare evasion against the war in Iraq for March 18, 2005 and beyond. We do not believe it was adopted on a wide scale but reproduce the text here as an example of how people tried to oppose the conflict worldwide.
Is Truth Enough? - George Caffentzis
Text of a talk given by American autonomist George Caffentzis on the Iraq war and the American anti-war movement.
"Is Truth Enough? The Bush Administration's Lies and the Anti-War Movement's Truths" George Caffentzis
[A transcription of a talk given to the "Truth and Consequences" Anti-War Forum at the University of Maine, Augusta, Maine, on March 20, 2004.]
US snipers see trouble brewing
"The reason why they're fighting us is not Osama bin Laden. They're fighting us because we're here. . . . They don't want us here. They just want us to leave."
"I guess that would be a victory for them,'' he said. "As far as I can see there's not going to be any victory for us."
By Tom Lasseter
