The Belfast police mutiny of 1907 - John Gray
A history of the mutiny of 70% of the Belfast police force during a dockers' strike which brought together Catholic and Protestant workers in struggle.
INTRODUCTORY NOTE
GI revolts: The breakdown of the US army in Vietnam - Richard Boyle
Submitted by working class s... on Jan 26 2013 23:43
Two stories of revolts by US troops, including the shooting of a top sergeant and the mutiny of Bravo Company at Firebase Pace near Cambodia, written by Richard Boyle, a war correspondent who spent three tours in Vietnam.
The Vietnam War was one of the least popular in American history. It was also the least “popular” with the GI’s who were sent to fight it. By the late 1960’s, news of GI unrest was being carried on TV and in newspapers around the country and Vietnam vets were speaking at anti-war demonstrations.
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".
The many-headed hydra - Peter Linebaugh and Marcus Rediker
Sailors, slaves, commoners, and the hidden history of the revolutionary Atlantic.
Winner of the International Labor History Award
The Black Sea Mutiny: the Marty Myth and the Role of the Anarchists
Submitted by Battlescarred on Jun 20 2011 15:54
A look at the French Communist Party's mystification of the 1919 Black Sea Mutiny.
“We, the Social Defence Committee and the Black Sea Sailors Committee, have transformed this wind bag (André Marty) into a hero”. (End of report of talk by Louis Sellier to the municipal councillors of Paris 11 December 1931).
Winston Churchill and the "Second Front": A Reappraisal - Tuvia Ben-Moshe
Submitted by plecil on May 6 2011 20:01
This article shows how Churchill's war strategy was determined by British soldiers' reluctance to fight another bloody world war.
The Black Sea revolt - Tico Jossifort
Submitted by Red Marriott on Aug 9 2010 21:07
The history of a 1919 naval mutiny of French troops sent to intervene in Russia against the revolution. Initiated by a group of anarchist sailors, the revolt spread to other ships - so preventing naval intervention against Soviet Russia and achieving the desired demobilisation of the mutineers.
I: Sailors In Revolt Seize the Battleship France
The revolt at Radomir - Tico Jossifort
Submitted by Red Marriott on Aug 8 2010 21:50
The story of a little-known Bulgarian anti-war movement; including a 1918 mass mutiny and armed rebellion. This led to fraternisation with Russian troops, the collapse of the Bulgarian war effort, the abdication of the King and a potential revolutionary opportunity.
[b] The Leninist author attributes the movement's failure largely to the non-Bolshevik conceptions and strategies of the social-democratic and peasant leaders.
Cruel Treatment of UK refusenik
Submitted by JoeMaguire on Apr 15 2010 22:59
Soldier Joe Glenton, who was court martialled on 5 March and jailed for nine months for refusing to fight in Afghanistan, and for speaking out at anti-war demonstrations, is being subjected to cruel treatment by army prison staff.
Joe Glenton, the British soldier who refused to return to fight in Afghanistan in a war he believed to be unjustified and unwinnable, is receiving cruel treatment at the hands of military prison staff, following his court martial and sentence to nine months imprisonment.
Albin Köbis (1892-1917)
Submitted by Battlescarred on Dec 11 2009 13:00
A short account of Albin Köbis and the first stirrings of revolt at the Kiel naval base.
“I perish a victim of military justice. It is, of course, not easy to die so young, but I die with a curse on the German-militarist state.” - Albin Köbis in a letter to his parents before his execution.
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