Millionaires go to WAR! – Expect world’s workers to fight for them!!!
Monthly Archives: June 2008
How wars end – A brief history of resistance to war
The history of resistance to war, often by those soldiers and sailors conscripted to fight it is always buried when our rulers celebrate their historic achievements in sending workers off to kill each other. From the mutinies of World War One, WWII and Vietname to the general strike of the Tragic Week against Spanish imperialism it […]
Review: Refueling Peace website
Refueling Peace is one of the many anti-war groups that has sprung up over the last year. They have defined themselves around a very specific purpose, to "monitor and stop US military flights refuelling in Ireland". The information gathering aspect of this is proving essential in moving the Shannon refuelling issue to the centre of […]
A plan for the anti-war movement
Polls show most people in Ireland oppose the war, and refuelling at Shannon, yet the government continue to provide support for the US and British war drive. This is yet another demonstration of how meaningless parliamentary democracy is. Unless we are talking of marches of tens or hundreds of thousands we won’t frighten the government […]
An anarchist analyis of Islam
The September 11 attacks, the Afghan war that followed from it and the ongoing war in Israel/Palestine have once again raised the issue of Islam in the minds of many anarchists in Ireland and Britain. Not just because of the role Islam has in shaping those conflicts but also because militant Islam has become a […]
Anti-Ulises : A Day In the Life of a Simmering City
The Epic Struggle for Another Oaxaca Has Not Finished, says David Venegas. May 15, 2008, Oaxaca City, Mexico. “History is a nightmare from which I am trying to wake.” Stephen Daedalus, in Ulysses, James Joyce 1922