Violence in the women’s suffrage movement
Submitted by Steven. on Jun 10 2017 11:22
A brief account of some of the many violent incidents in the UK women’s fight for the right to vote in the early 20th century, by Steven Johns.
Call COBRA, that’ll sort it
Submitted by Rob Ray on Jun 4 2017 13:08
I originally posted this at Freedom News shortly after the Manchester bombing, but blow me if it's not strangely prescient on today's events as well...
Manchester Arena atrocity: an initial response
Submitted by Internationalis... on May 24 2017 19:51
Our work creates the bulk of the world’s wealth which ends up in the hands of the capitalist class. They use the wealth we create to supply armies and to wage wars to defend their existence. We need to build an international movement which can create a society in which people’s needs not capitalist profits dominate, and in doing so end atrocities like the one in Manchester. No war but the class war.
A half-blind communist with a sharp eye for the future. Marinus van der Lubbe (1909-1934) and his Reichstag Fire
Submitted by Steven. on Feb 27 2017 14:56
Interesting history of Marinus van der Lubbe, the young communist building worker who burned down the Reichstag, and was falsely denounced as a Nazi agent by the Communist Party, by Joep de Visser.
The human costs of militarization in Latin America - Arturo Jimenez
An article about the establishment of Operation Condor, an alliance between multiple right wing dictatorships in South America to target exiled dissidents.
Califat et Barbarie - Tristan Leoni
Tristan Leoni's three-part series of articles on IS and its 'caliphate', first published on DDT21 blogs.
Brouillards de guerre - Gilles Dauvé
June 2016 article by G.D. on IS, Syria, war, the state and rhetoric, first published on the DDT21 blog.
Noam Chomsky: A Brief History of America's Cold-Blooded, Terroristic Treatment of Cuba
2015 article giving a brief overview of US/Cuban relations. "The imperial mentality is wondrous to behold."
Class War 04/2016: Paris November 13th 2015, Brussels March 22nd 2016 – Just like an ordinary day in Syria, Iraq, Yemen or Afghanistan…
Submitted by Guerre de Classe on Nov 16 2016 16:19
“The terrorist threat” and militarization of society against the re-emergence of class war
A (very) small example: France and Belgium
Islamic State, A Project Of Civil Society
Beyond the clichés that portray the Islamic State as simply a barbaric and fanatical occupation force shot up with petrodollars from smuggling, we cannot grasp it in its reality without considering its full dimension as a social project...
