Capitalism breeds war
Only 23 Labour MPs opposed war in Parliament on 17 September — fewer than the 38 who opposed in 1990 when Saddam Hussein not only had a bigger arsenal but had just used it against Kuwait. All the big...
View ArticleWhy the US threatened bombs
At the end of February, the USA nearly went to war against Iraq. At almost the last minute the threatened bombing raids were called off, or at least postponed. War would certainly have killed many...
View ArticleImperialism in the Gulf
Since Iran and Iraq emerged from outright British domination in the 1950s, they have been the biggest powers in the Gulf, a region which holds more than half the world’s oil reserves. In 1973-4 the...
View ArticleHypocrisy of the arms exporters
Jeremy Corbyn MP explained why he opposed war at a meeting on 17 February “In the mid-1980s, when I raised the issue of human rights in Iraq in the House of Commons, I was told that I shouldn’t upset...
View ArticleApparatus Marxism in the Balkan war - 1-6
I WHAT the “self-conceit” of the Apparatus Marxists “accomplished” during the Balkan war was to put their “Marxism” to the task of apologising for and making propaganda on behalf of Serbian imperialism...
View ArticleApparatus Marxism in the Balkan war - 7-9 + afterword
VII Caliban: Then the “banker turned politician Milosevic stepped in to divert the anger away from the government by whipping up hatred against Albanians living in Serb-run Kosovo… Milosevic put...
View ArticleLenin and the myth of revolutionary defeatism by Hal Draper
“When Vladimir Ilyitch once observed me glancing through a collection of his articles written in the year 1903, which had just been published, a sly smile crossed his face, and he remarked with a...
View ArticleLenin and the Myth of Revolutionary Defeatism by Hal Draper (part 2)
After Lenin: the revival and reinterpretation The revival of defeatism did not take place while Lenin was alive, that is, during the first five years of the Comintern... A check of the resolutions and...
View ArticleMarx and Engels on war
Hal Draper discusses Marx and Engels' attitude to wars. Marx and Engels commented on many conflicts and wars between the great powers of 19th century Europe. read more
View ArticleThe politics of Yankophobia - Review: Rogue State: a guide to the world’s...
This is a sort of companion volume to the Black Book of Communism produced by a team of mostly ex-Communist-Party French writers a few years back. It is much more businesslike, brisker, and less...
View ArticleReview: Leon Trotsky and World War One by Ian Thatcher
When the great powers of Europe went to war in August 1914, Leon Trotsky was living in Vienna. Fearing arrest, he fled to Switzerland for three months. In November 1914 he moved to France as a war...
View ArticleBread and Roses: Women, war and fundamentalism
by Vicki Morris From a sense that "women" have something distinctive to say on the threatened war, and from a sense that they are not getting a chance to say it anywhere else, a number of groups...
View ArticleWar! What is it good for?
Pop music can be escapist — nothing wrong with that — but occasionally it transcends that to give voice to popular concerns and question jingoistic assumptions. Here is my “top ten” of anti-war songs,...
View ArticleDemocracy and war
Not in our name The anti-war demonstrators on 15 February were marching against Bush's and Blair's war plans, but also against the shutting-down of democracy by deception and manipulation, the...
View ArticleFor women's rights against war and fundamentalism
By Gerry Byrne One voice has been surprisingly absent or muted in the debate on the coming war. Women are probably the majority of the anti-war movement. Women and children are the main sufferers under...
View Article101 Poems Against War
edited by Matthew Hollis and Paul Keegan, with an afterword by Andrew Motion (Faber) There is a lot of poetry about war and against unjust war. Often highlighting the human suffering involved, much of...
View ArticlePacifism and war
There are many sorts of pacifist: the recent votes in the Commons on war against Iraq have shown that. Many of those who opposed Blair will now "come on side" and support "our troops" like the Daily...
View ArticleOnly workers and youth together can cut the roots of war
The School Students Activists' Forum, held in London on Sunday 16th March, attracted around 150 school and FE students. Most of these were from London, although activists from cities such as...
View ArticleThe Warsaw Ghetto uprising: a desperate last stand against the Nazis
Author: Joan Trevor The last desperate fight of the Jews of Warsaw in 1943 Sixty-seven years ago this month the Nazis began their final assault on the Warsaw Ghetto, where 40,000 Jews were making a...
View ArticleGeorge Galloway: a factsheet
GEORGE Galloway is entitled to due process. If he is to be condemned for his advocacy of British soldiers refusing orders in the war, or his denunciation of Bush and Blair, then we are proud to be...
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