war
Articles about war and military interventions.
The war in DR Congo: behind the slaughter and looting stand imperialist interests - IBRP
Article from 2008, looking at the interests of various factions involved in the ongoing war in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
In October a new phase of fighting in the long running Congo war broke out. General Laurent Nkunda’s Tutsi rebel forces captured several towns in the North Kivu province and advanced on the regional capital Goma, the town in which the latest peace agreement was signed only nine months earlier.
Leaflet on terrorism after 9-11 - Kolinko
Leaflet on terrorism, capitalism and war produced by German group Kolinko after the September 11 attacks in 2001.
After the terrorist act in New York politicians of all parties and countries have called us together to defend 'our democratic state' against the'uncivilised world'. We don't believe that any state, be it American, German, Iraqi or Afghan, can save us from terrorism. Because the state both needs terrorism and also acts in a terrorist way itself every day.
East Timor Retrospective - Noam Chomsky
Chomsky in 1999 writes on US intervention and the Indonesian government's bloody war in East Timor since 1975.
It is not easy to write with feigned calm and dispassion about the events that have been unfolding in East Timor. Horror and shame are compounded by the fact that the crimes are so familiar and could so easily have been terminated by the international community a long time ago.
Somalia: Development by other means - Wildcat
Article analysing the war in Somalia in the early nineties, and the destruction of pre-capitalist social relations there through both military and 'humanitarian' means.
While we disagree with the views of the authors on journalists, we believe the article contains useful information and analysis of the conflict and its roots.
The War in Somalia
Notes On The Balkan War and the Media, 1999
A critique of the media's relation to the Kosovo war of 1999, coming out of the group "No War But The Class War". It includes a leaflet produced by the group for an anti-war demo. Written in June 1999.
The photo on the left was taken from a Tirana demonstration in support of NATO, May 18th 1999
- strangely, no irony was intended.
World War II: a people's war? - Howard Zinn
Historian Howard Zinn critically analyses the conception that World War II was really a "people's war" against fascism, as opposed to yet another inter-imperialist conflict with nothing to offer working people.
March 2003: Schoolkids against the Iraqi War
The actions of schoolkids in March 2003 throughout the world were perhaps the most interesting aspect of the opposition to the Iraqi war.
Undoubtedly they failed to stop the war, surprise, surprise. They fizzled out as it became obvious that the war would just go on despite what was done in the streets.
War, peace and the crisis of the reproduction of human capital in former Yugoslavia - TPTG
TPTG's leaflet on the Balkans conflict, and their argument for an internationalist line against the leftist support of rival nationalisms.
If one leaves aside the left patriots (CP, various marxist-leninist organisations) who used the anti-war demonstrations, which they organised and led, as a vote-hunting tactic, all the "well- intentioned" anti-war protestors who dragged themselves to the spring demonstrations in Greece, failed completely.
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.
A second major investigation into arms sales from BAE looks likely to run aground as South African government authorities have blocked investigators looking into the sale of Hawk Jet trainers and Gripen fighters to the state.
“Sometimes we shoot the same way” – the attack on Gaza, internationalism and the Left
A libcom user and Anarchist Federation member analyses the 2008-2009 Israel-Gaza conflict, and the response of the left to events.
Israel’s brutal attack on the Gaza strip has elicited widespread revulsion, and has led to protests across Britain and the world. It is clear that the Israeli state has committed atrocities which anyone with an ounce of humanity would seek an end to. Its savage bombing of one of the most densely populated places on earth has resulted in over a thousand deaths.
