Wildcat (UK)
The inhumanity of humanitarian aid - Wildcat
Article looking at the use of 'humanitarian' aid as a way of perpetuating war and reproducing capitalist social relations, as a means of social control, during the Yugoslav wars of the 1990s.
In Yugoslavia, as in Somalia and in every other war-torn region, humanitarian aid functions as a means of maintaining the war effort. Outside the affected region it provides a wonderful alibi for intervention by the armies of the most powerful states and makes these states appear caring.
Klasna priroda sankcija - Wildcat
Medjunarodne trgovinske sankcije uvedene nekoliko godina ranije protiv različitih država, mogu biti grubo podeljene u dve kategorije:
1) Pretnja sankcijama kao ona upućena Južnoj Africi osamdesetih. Njihova funkcija je pre diplomatksa nego ekonomska.
The class nature of sanctions - Wildcat
Wildcat UK show how international sanctions imposed on former-Yugoslavian countries during the Yugoslav wars acted as attacks on the living conditions of the working class.
International trade sanctions imposed against various states in recent years can be roughly divided into two categories:
- Token sanctions like those imposed on South Africa in the 1980s. The function of these is more diplomatic than economic.
Jugoslavija: Od smanjenja plata do rata - Wildcat
Rat u bivšoj Jugoslaviji je besneo više od četiri godine i privukao je više medijske pažnje po poginulom nego bilo koji rat u istoriji. Buržoaski komentatori beskonačno spekulišu o vojnom i političkom balansu snaga, drugim rečima, o značaju rata za ovu ili onu frakciju njihove klase.
Yugoslavia: from wage cuts to war - Wildcat
A look at the effect of the 1991-1995 war in Yugoslavia on the class struggle, and the effect of class struggle on the war.
The war in former Yugoslavia has raged for more than four years and has attracted more media attention per death than any other war in history. Bourgeois commentators endlessly speculate about the military and political balance of forces, in other words about the significance of the war for this or that fraction of their class.
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
From Bloody Sunday to Trafalgar Square
This text describes the mass insurgency in Ireland leading up to the 1972 Bloody Sunday massacre, and looks at how the British state has applied the lessons from Ireland against the working class in Britain. It was first published in early 1991 in the aftermath of the Trafalgar Square poll tax riot and circulated as a 4 page A4 leaflet amongst the anti-poll tax movement ; later it was republished in Clash, the international autonomist magazine and Wildcat (London).
"I'd shoot some of these bastards, I would, honest... this is more like Northern Ireland" (comments by police, 31 March 1990)
Ozimandias - Review: Against His-story! Against Leviathan! by Fredy Perlman - Wildcat (UK)
Review: Against His-story! Against Leviathan! by Fredy Perlman, Black & Red, Detroit 1983.
Against His-story! is an attempt to take opposition to Progress to its logical conclusion. So is this belated review.
Perlman summarises the whole history of Civilisation from the viewpoint of its victims: we, the "zeks", free people who were enslaved then taught to identify with the enslaving monster: Leviathan.
OZYMANDIAS
ROCK OF STAGES
Good old-fashioned trade unionism - Wildcat
Wildcat argue that unions have sabotaged working class struggle since their inception.
The year 1842 was a very significant one for the proletariat of the British Isles. On the positive side it was the occasion of a great struggle against wage cutting and on the negative side it marked the formation of the first modern national trade union.
