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collettivo pace writes:
"Notes on the US' Attack on Iraq - For A New "Peace" Movement.
We don't live any more in a happy period where "no war" meant "peace" immediately…
by Collettivo Pace (Parigi)
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As some Latin-American counrtries' actual situations show us well, the neo-liberal globalisation begins to be rent everywhere on our planet. Further, there are some "drop-out" regions, which have never enjoyed any benefits from the neo-liberal globalisation and which will never enjoy them in the future. Iraq after the First Gulf War is one of these "drop-outs".
"Iraq as Trial Run"
Noam Chomsky, Frontline, India
Noam Chomsky, University Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, founder of the modern science of linguistics and political activist, is a powerhouse of anti-imperialist activism in the United States today. On March 21, a crowded and typical - and uniquely Chomskyan - day of political protest and scientific academic research, he spoke from his office for half an hour to V. K. Ramachandran on the current attack on Iraq.
V. K. Ramachandran: Does the present aggression on Iraq represent a continuation of United States' international policy in recent years or a qualitatively new stage in that policy?
Noam Chomsky: It represents a significantly new phase. It is not without precedent, but significantly new nevertheless.
This should be seen as a trial run. Iraq is seen as an extremely easy and totally defenceless target. It is assumed, probably correctly, that the society will collapse, that the soldiers will go in and that the U.S. will be in control, and will establish the regime of its choice and military bases. They will then go on to the harder cases that will follow. The next case could be the Andean region, it could be Iran, it could be others.
Anonymous Comrade writes:
"Lead article in forthcoming April issue of News & Letters:
War on Iraq, Resistance, and the Shift in Global Politics
by Peter Hudis
Bush's insistence on launching a full-scale war against Iraq, replete with over 250,000 troops, hundreds of tanks, and thousands of bombs and missiles, threatens to wreak enormous destruction upon the people of Iraq while producing a major shift in world politics which we will all feel for years to come.
Anonymous Comrade writes:
This is no war, there is no enemy except singled out by the most powerful. It is pure destruction, simple: of the spirit, the psyche, the faith, of the belief in everything civilized. It is manifest barbarism. It is pure vulgarity, brutality. How would a british gentilman put it?
'Yes, it is very rude indeed.'
This is about libertinism and about pornography. 24 hours Arab porn live!
Jett writes This essay deals with an issue central to contemporary international relations: the on-going transformation of sovereignty. Sovereignty is a kind of authority; traditionally it has been conceived of as the indivisible monopoly power over social, political, and economic matters within discrete geographically defined and contained units (i.e. sovereign States); for example, the authority of a government to tax economic activity or to assert laws within "its" territory. The modern system of dividing the earth into sovereign territorial States arose out of feudal European socio-political theory, with the Peace of Westphalia treaties (1648) as the "coming-out" moment in which these theories were first substantially established as "international law". The concept of sovereignty has since developed in time with Western thought, and this system of political organization has spread throughout the earth, primarily through the colonial endeavors of European empire-builders.
Louis Lingg writes:
"I found the following timeline on the Practical History website.
Since the state of Iraq was created early this century, the working class in the area have suffered brutal exploitation and repression at the hands of the rival ruling class groups competing for power. As if dealing with these home grown gangsters wasn't enough, they have also faced the bullets and bombs of the global capitalist powers (especially Britain and America) seeking to control the oil wealth of this part of the world.
Meanwhile opposition political organisations such as the Iraqi Communist Party and the Kurdish Democratic Party have consistently made deals with both Iraqi regimes and the global powers at the expense of those who they claimed to be leading in resistance to the state. Despite all this, the working class has shown itself a force to be reckoned with, toppling governments and sabotaging war efforts. This brief chronology charts some of the key moments in a century of war and rebellion.
jim writes:
René Riesel: From Situationism to the Farmers' Confederation, a Radical Thinker
Submission is Advancing at a Frightful Speed
Alain Léauthier
Libération (3-4 February 2001)
Translated by Tom McDonough
STILL FIGHTING
FORMER MEMBER of the Situationist International, 51-year-old René Riesel breeds sheep on the Méjean plateau in Lozère. At the age of 17 he belonged the Nanterre ?Enragés,? then to the Occupation Committee at the Odéon in May ?68. The ?situs? would recognize him as one of their own, the youngest and also the most promising of them according to Guy Debord, before expelling him like almost all the others.
The very image of the urban rebel, Riesel became one of the gray eminences of the Farmers? Confederation. Then, at variance with them, he left it in 1999. He did not, however, give up fighting.
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Anonymous Comrade writes: "This screed just in from the SWP UK Theory Commisar... pretend they are not there?"
"Autonomism: Evading Power"
Alex Callinicos
Counterposed to reformism within the anti-capitalist movement is a position that is apparently its opposite, renouncing not only a reliance on the existing state, but the very objective of taking power from capital. This is the position taken by the autonomist wing of the movement whose most famous representatives are the Italian disobbedienti. This takes its inspiration from some of the remarks of the Zapatista leader Subcomandante Marcos. For instance, he writes, 'Perhaps, for example, the new political morality will be constructed in a new space that will not require the taking or retention of power but the counterweight and opposition that requires and obliges the power to "rule by obeying".'
Anonymous Comrade writes:
"The goal of Autonomous Action (AD) is to form a common libertarian communist organisation in the area of the former Soviet Union.
Autonomous Action was organised in its first general meeting in January
2002, until then it had existed two years as a project. Currently Autonomous
Action has local groups in dozen or so cities of Russia and Armenia, and
supporters in Belarus, Lithuania, Kazakhstan and Ukraine. Read more about us from our website at www.avtonom.net.
A report from our February meeting follows below:
Anonymous Comrade writes:
We recently received this manuscript with the note: 'Dear friends. I know that you will appreciate this text. I trust you to do what you see fit, please excuse my English, publish it warts and all as you say in your language...' It was sent from a still Muslim country, and it begins:
The challenge of our times -- for us proletarians who live in countries where Islam is part and parcel of the status quo --, is to criticize this "religion of the desert", not for God's sake but for our very own. So that we don't have to worry anymore about anyone coming back from the dead to tell us if there is life after death. It seems more human to find out whether there is life before death. (1)
"The Misery of Islam:
An Iranian Situationist Critique of Religion"
Al-Djouhall
"When I was lying in my warm, damp bed these questions did not interest me one jot and at such a time it did not matter to me whether God really existed or whether He was nothing but a personification of the mighty ones of this world, invented for the greater glory of spiritual values and the easier spoliation of the lower orders, the pattern of earthly things being transferred from the sky. All I wanted to know was whether or not I was going to live through to the morning. In face of death, I felt that religion, faith, belief were feeble, childish things of which the best that could be said was that they provided a kind of recreatian for healthy, successful people..." "The Blind Owl,"Sadegh Hedayat
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