war
Articles about war and military interventions.
On Lice and Fleas: Observations Starting from the Conflict Between Iran and the USA
A new situationist analysis of the threat of war between Iran and Iraq and the way this functions to sustain the dominant society, plus some critical comments on the wave of proletarian struggles in Iran.
New world order: rhetoric and reality - Wildcat
Wildcat's analysis of the post-Cold War "New World Order."
The phrase "New World Order" was originally used by George Bush following the destruction of social democracy in Eastern Europe and the massacre of the proletariat in Iraq. Between 1989 and 1991, a dramatic series of events culminated in cooperation between all the major powers, with the USA in overall charge.
Making a killing - Christian Dewar
Article detailing links between big business and the Nazi regime during World War II.
Many Americans are probably not aware of the great extent to which U.S. corporations collaborated with the Nazi war machine during WWII. Ultimately, the international corporations, the lawyers, bankers and financiers who collaborated with the Nazis prevailed. They exerted tremendous influence to thwart investigators delving into their seditious activities after the war.
Oakland dockers honour anti-war picket lines
Oakland Port anti-war and labor protesters close SSA terminal for the day. ILWU 10 & ILWU 34 members refuse to cross lines.
Dozens of anti-war protesters including the leadership and many members of the Oakland Education Association (OEA) joined the picket lines this morning and in the evening of the SSA (Stevedoring Services of America) shipping terminal in Oakland, California to protest the war and the lack of funding for schools in Oakland.
War is the health of the state - Randolph Bourne
This classic first part of an essay entitled "The State," left unfinished at Bourne's untimely death in 1918, it explores the connection between patriotism, war, and the State.
To most Americans of the classes which consider themselves significant the war [World War I] brought a sense of the sanctity of the State which, if they had had time to think about it, would have seemed a sudden and surprising alteration in their habits of thought.
Darkness at midnight: Review of Midnight Oil - Work, Energy, War, 1973-1992 by Midnight Notes
A review of an anthology of articles by the US autonomist Marxist-influenced Midnight Notes collective and the earlier Zerowork group.
From issue no. 17 of the Wildcat (UK) journal.
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DARKNESS AT MIDNIGHT
Commentaries #1: War in Iran? Why we must oppose sanctions
The first in a new series of pamphlets from the Brighton-based Aufheben collective, intended to supplement the annual magazine by responding to developing events. Published and distributed in March 2006.
Attached as a print-friendly pdf file below.
The call of the void - Karl Nesic
The sequel to the pamphlet Whither the world on the changing nature of today's 'post-Fordist' capitalism, this pamphlet looks at the connections between the current wars, financial crises and class struggle.
Nesic writes: "The present situation reminds us that capitalism is not a framework within which class struggle takes place, but is itself class struggle."
Lebanon, Iran and the ‘Long War’ in the ‘Wider Middle East’
Aufheben analyse the long-term geopolitical aims of the US in the Middle East, following the election of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as President of Iran in July 2005.
Introduction
Appendix: Oil Wars and New World Orders in Historical Context
Introduction[1] Following the conversion of the Royal Navy from coal in 1911 and the development of petro-chemical industries after WW2, oil became a militarily and economically important resource for the major imperialist powers.
