war
Articles about war and military interventions.
0400-2000: Northern Ireland - Is it a religious conflict?
Author's note; this is
an expanded version of a talk given to the Brecon Political and Theological
Discussion Group on Thursday 28th October, 2004. Alternatively it may
be read as a greatly condensed version of my book, Ulster Presbyterianism.
Jaime Balius and The Friends of Durruti
An account by Pablo Ruiz of his contact and activity with Jaime Balius in the Spanish Civil War and Friends of Durruti group, written after Balius's death in 1981
The Afghan Crisis and the Transformation of Bourgeois Law - Melancholic Troglodytes
The Afghan Crisis and the Transformation of Bourgeois Law
"For the abolition of moral fetishes can only be accomplished in practice simultaneously with the abolition of commodity fetishism and legal fetishism." Pashukanis, Marxism & Law, 1929
McDonalds, 9-11 and US foreign policy
Statement by Glasgow MWR following a statement issued by the McDonalds corporation following the September 11th attacks covering the attacks, the war, and McDonalds itself
A Brief History of Liberia 1822-1991
A short history of Liberia written by a visitor to the country during the 1991 civil war.
It was intended to be background for a feature in Black Flag that never happened. It probably needs improving, especially on the responses of the people who lived there to their role as supplier of raw materials to the west, but is at least a start.
Liberia
Afghan sounds - British troops and oil pipelines...
It was recently announced that yet more British troops are heading for Afghanistan.
George Bush and his malleable sidekick, Tony Blair , have decreed that in their crusade to save the world (especially the USA and UK) from the far-reaching tentacles of terrorism - and heroin[ism] - Afghanistan must be tamed.
DUck and cover - the continuing dangers of Depleted Uranium
Our exposure to Depleted Uranium is posing a danger that is being wilfully downplayed and ignored. John Couzin investigates
A new report has found that during the ‘Shock and Awe’ campaign in Iraq, radiation levels in Britain quadrupled, leading to fears that Depleted Uranium weapons used in the desert state may have affected most of Europe.
Okuzai Kenzo's crusade
Tearing Out the Truth
Okuzai Kenzo's Crusade makes the Film of the Decade, by Tom Gill
Presented in PDF format (435kb).
A review of Yuki Yukite shingun aka The Emperor's Naked Army Marches On by Kazuo Hara, containing historical detail.
GI opposition to the Vietnam War, 1965-1973 - Howard Zinn
Historian Howard Zinn on the opposition to the Vietnam War by American soldiers. For a fuller introduction we recommend our article 1961-1973: GI Resistance in the Vietnam War
[2,200 words]
The corporate plunder of Iraq
The looting of billions of dollars of Iraq’s oil wealth is unprecedented in the history of corporate crime, writes criminologist Dave Whyte.
The neo-liberal transformation of Iraq is portrayed as a humanitarian venture. Western corporations and occupying governments now talk of the liberation of Iraq from the “tyranny of Saddam’s planned economy”.
