war
Articles about war and military interventions.
The next Afghan war
As up to 5,000 more British troops are sent to fight in Afghanistan, Paul Rogers from Open Democracy examines the changing situation in the volatile country and looks at what will face the soldiers on their arrival.
The deteriorating security situation in Afghanistan has attracted little attention in the western media but much more concern among security analysts.
Capitalism at Work : The Bombing of Dresden - February 1945
Beyond the Celebration Anniversary : Capitalism at Work : The Bombing of Dresden - February 1945 - Communism #10
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1990-1991: A Comrade's Testimony: A Journey to Iraq (includes leaflets from Kurdish areas)
From Communism #7
On August 1st 1991 there was a loud bang during the night in Tehran and we heard that a food storage warehouse had been blown up in protest at delays in distribution of welfare food allowances. People had been waiting two months for their social security food supplies. Apparently, nighttime explosions are quite common, public buses being the most frequent targets.
1988: Massacre in Halabja - ICG
From Communism #6
Mutiny in Banja Luka, Bosnia - ICG
As our text on the war in Yugoslavia and the struggles taken up by the proletariat against the permanent degradation of their conditions of life went to press mutinies broke out in certain sectors of the Serbian army, confirming that even in the worst situation of counter-revolution our class continues to be the only viable alternative to the horrors of capitalism.
From Communism #9, September 1993
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1990-1991: The Kurdistan Shoras Resistance - AF
Short article with patchy information about the movements of Shoras - workers' councils - in Kurdistan, 1990-91, after the first Gulf War
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Registration
Registration is the first step of conscription. The war shouters and their prostitute press, bet on snaring you into the army, tell you that registration has nothing to do with conscription.
They lie.
To the Youth of America
Tyranny must be opposed at the start. Autocracy, once secured in the saddle, is diffucult to dislodge. If you believe that America is entering the war "to make democracy safe," then be a man and volunteer.
But if you know anything at all, then you should know that the cry of democracy is a lie and a snare for the unthinking.
Mutinies - Dave Lamb
Solidarity's excellent pamphlet on mutinies in the British armed forces towards the end of World War I.
MUTINIES
No War but the Class War comic
A comic made on the eve of the 2003 war on Iraq calling for working class unity across borders and class war against capital rather than national unity and war.
