Red and Black Notes
What's Going On - Iraq: Two Years after the 'End' of the War - Red and Black Notes
Red and Black Notes article written 2 years into the invasion of Iraq, looking at what was then happening with the occupation.
At the height of the Vietnam War, singer Edwin Starr asked, "War! What is it good for? Absolutely nothing." While the question is still important, we should also ask about the war in Iraq, who is it good for?
Iraq: Oil, Blood and Class - International Bureau for a Revolutionary Party
Article written by the International Bureau for the Revolutionary Party on the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
Humanity is once again about to live one of its defining moments. The spectre of war is looming upon us. U.S. imperialism is about to unleash its fury upon the people of Iraq and the attack could be imminent. Every day, the U.S. State apparatus is waging a preparatory propaganda war on the world scale to prepare public opinion for the next bloody onslaught.
Don't talk about the danger of war - unless you are prepared to speak about capitalism! - Internationalist Perspective
Article by Internationalist Perspective on the inevitably capitalist aspects of the 2003 Invasion of Iraq
As the US makes its final preparations for an attack on Iraq, the horror of this impending war, and the massive casualties that will almost certainly result, is blamed on everything except the real cause: the laws of motion of capitalist civilization.
The Gulf War of 2003 - Internationalist Perspective
Article by Internationalist Perspective on the 2003 Gulf War.
Judging from the preparations that are already under way, the American government is dead serious about its intent to invade Iraq. As we write this, US logistical personnel are swarming over the Gulf region. In Persian Gulf states such as Bahrain, Oman and Qatar, munitions are being stocked, harbors are being prepared for the arrival of war ships, bombers and fighter planes are amassed.
Red and Black Notes reply to the International Bolshevik Tendancy
Red and Black Notes reply to the International Bolshevik Tendancy criticism of an internationalist anti-war leaflet they co-authored.
International Bolshevik TendencyBox 332, Adelaide St. Station
Toronto, ON, M5C 1J0
March 13, 2003
Dear comrades
Criticism of internationalist anti-war statement by the International Bolshevik Tendancy
Criticism of this anti-war statement distributed at an anti-Iraq war demo in January 2003 by the International Bolshevik Tendancy. A reply by Red and Black Notes can be found here.
Reprinted below are excerpts from a statement distributed at an anti-war protest in Toronto on 18 January from "an informal group of people in Toronto of varying perspectives (anarchist, communist and others)" associated with a local leftist bookstore. Followed by the IBT reply.
Against Capitalist War! Against Capitalist Peace!
Class Struggle Against the Work/War Machine!
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!
Review - Greater than the might of armies editted by Staughton Lynd & Alice Lynd - Red and Black Notes
Red and Black Notes review of Greater than the might of armies, edited by Staughton Lynd & Alice Lynd.
Greater than the might of Armies
Staughton Lynd & Alice Lynd (eds.) The New Rank & File (Ithaca: ILR Press, 2000)
Review - The Arch Conspirator by Len Bracken - Red and Black Notes
Red and Black Notes review of The Arch Conspirator by Len Bracken.
The Arch Conspirator
By Len Bracken,
Adventures Unlimited Press, 1999.
"Conspiracy, " n. from the Latin to breathe together. A secret agreement or combination between two or more persons to commit an unlawful act that may prejudice any third person
Brother, Can You Spare A Ukrainian Section? - Red and Black Notes
Article by Red and Black Notes on the fraudulent "Ukrainian section" of several Trotskyist internationals, which obtained much money from several competing tendancies by mouthing the correct slogans to the right people.
The little world in which the left ekes out its meagre existence recently saw a minor scandal emerge, when a Ukrainian Trotskyist organization affiliated to the Committee for a Workers' International (CWI) simultaneously represented itself to several other left-wing and Trotskyist organizations as "their" sections.
