Women and politics in Lebanon
Article by a Lebanese woman describing the position of women in both Muslim and Christian communities as the country slid into civil war.
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The mother who rocks her newborn son with her right hand does not shake the world with her left hand - Arab saying
'Don't be a soldier!' The radical anti-war movement in north London 1914-1918 - Ken Weller
Submitted by Steven. on Dec 18 2012 12:07
Ken Weller of Solidarity's excellent and detailed historical account of working class opposition to World War I in North London, which offers a snapshot of the anti-war movement nationally.
Digitised by libcom.org, December 2012. Text version to be completed shortly.
Issues that Obama and Romney avoid
Submitted by Steven. on Oct 8 2012 09:11
As the US election approaches, Noam Chomsky examines how similar the two candidates are on the biggest issues, and points out that only mass action, not voting, can change things.
With the quadrennial presidential election extravaganza reaching its peak, it's useful to ask how the political campaigns are dealing with the most crucial issues we face. The simple answer is: badly, or not at all. If so, some important questions arise: why, and what can we do about it?
Syrian embassy invites Polish fascists to demonstrate solidarity with Al-Assad
Submitted by Black Adder on Aug 28 2012 14:45
Short news about protest which changed into Fascist event.
26th of August in front of the Syrian embassy two demonstrations took place. The first one was organized by Syrian embassy and its goal was to record it and show in pro-Syrian government that whole world supports Al-Assad. That is why Syrians who live in Warsaw prepared second demonstration to drown the first one.
The Finnish Class War 1918
Submitted by Radical Gardener on Jun 7 2012 08:50
A brief piece explaining that the Finnish Civil War of 1918 was, contrary to rightist claims, in fact, a class war.
Translator's notes:
This unsigned article originally appeared in Kapinatyöläinen #13, 1993. The original title of the piece is "Luokkasota 1918" which translates plainly to Class War 1918, I have for clarification changed this to The Finnish Class War 1918, as well as adding my own footnotes.
Frimod Fredriksson,
Finland, June 2012.
The Finnish Class War 1918
Nuclear power is great for business - Workers Playtime
A short article by Workers Playtime advocating class war as a means to eradicate nuclear weapons.
The government is worried. Too many people are questioning the nuclear weapons programme. So the government is planning to spend millions of pounds to con us into thinking that we somehow benefit from these weapons. More dangerous is the fact that when we question nuclear weapons, we are led to question the whole basis of society.
Imperialism, the world war and social democracy - Herman Gorter
German left communist Herman Gorter on war, imperialism and the nationalist degeneration of the First International.
Author’s Note
US warplane sabotaged at Shannon airport
Submitted by working class s... on Dec 28 2011 19:16
An anonymous group has subverted security at Shannon airport in Ireland, and damaged an American military aeroplane. They have issued a communique outlining their actions, which is reproduced here.
An unnamed group has claimed responsibility for subverting security at Shannon Airport, and damaging an American military warplane. The Irish police and airport authorities are baffled as to how the operation was carried out.
After Zimmerwald - Radical Chains
Submitted by blebber on Nov 2 2011 14:47
The modern left, bolshevism included, are all children of Zimmerwald. It was at the Zimmerwald conference in 1915 that the revolutionary left thrashed out the issues of its relation to the centrist and reformist wings of the movement and its orientation towards national self-determination... Lenin may have been well in advance of anyone in his call for revolutionary defeatism, but... Lenin's defence of the right of nations to self-determination was no more than a reiteration of orthodoxy and... in their assessment of the real consequences of support for nationalism the European left proved to be more perspicacious than Lenin.
[i] While bolshevik historiography tends to present bolshevism, and within bolshevism, Lenin, as the vanguard of the assault on opportunism, B.Shepherd shows that the reality was more complex.
Nuclear energy as the continuation of war by other means - Jean-Pierre Baudet
In this text written in 1986 in the wake of the Chernobyl disaster, Jean-Pierre Baudet defines nuclear power as “the logical result of the theoretical-practical aberration based on the dispossession of men...reduced to the status of mere economic subjects”, and discusses certain features it has in common with commodity society, such as its basis in separation and secrecy, its “blind indifference” regarding the survival of its protagonists and its “hostility towards man” as it decrees “a permanent state of emergency” and wages “the real total war about which the madmen of the past could only dream” against its “inadequate” human “prop”.
Nuclear Energy as the Continuation of War by Other Means – Jean-Pierre Baudet
“Do you tremble, skeleton? You would tremble even more if you knew where I am taking you.” (Turenne)
“Ubi solitudinem faciunt, pacem appellant.” (Tacitus)
“My soldiers would be perfect if they did not have families and homes.” (Napoleon Bonaparte)
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