Workers Solidarity Alliance (WSA) Statement Against Political Police Raids

Posted on October 9, 2010, filed Under Against War & Imperialism, WSA. Leave a Comment

The WSA condemns this attack and the arbitrary power which it claims for the repressive agencies of the state. We should also note the hypocrisy of the state agencies who do not shrink from supporting or engaging in mass-scale terrorism abroad, while asserting arbitrary powers at home in the name of “anti-terrorism” and allowing domestic armed extremists to assist in policing the border in Arizona.
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Workers Solidarity Alliance Statement on the 2009 US-Afghan Escalation

Posted on January 5, 2010, filed Under Against War & Imperialism, WSA. 1 Comment

On December 1, 2009, President Barack Obama announced that he will send tens of thousands of additional troops to Afghanistan, escalating the war in central Asia. Obama claims to want peace while he orders more war and death for poor and working people. He claims that the US fights for freedom and democracy, but he allies himself with tyrannical Afghani warlords. He does this with the backing of both Democrats and Republicans and the corporate interests they serve. None of this is new or unusual for the United States Government and its NATO allies. Read more

Class Struggle Anarchist Statement on Gaza‏‏

Posted on January 14, 2009, filed Under Against War & Imperialism, WSA. Leave a Comment

Gaza is in flames. Its population terrorized by the incessant bombing of Israeli warplanes against its public and residential districts and even its schools (3). Countless of the Gaza Strip’s mostly impoverished residents are dead, many of these children, women and the elderly. Many more Palestinians have lost loved ones, have maimed, both physically and psychologically, and all are living without access to basic necessities, water, food, medical care, etc. All of this as the consequence of the largest military assault (codename: “Operation Cast Lead”) waged by Israeli armed forces since 1967 War against the Gaza Strip and its approximately 1.5 million residents.

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Why Anti-Militarist?

Posted on January 14, 2009, filed Under Against War & Imperialism. Leave a Comment

By Scott R.

The Military is the first part of the State, which is used primarily to hold a nation together by suppressing minority cultures, protecting ruling class privileges against competing powers, and ensuring capitalist profits against working class interests. Its [upper class] officers command one portion of the working class to fight and/or kill the rest. It is an authoritarian institution: resistance to militarism is resistance to authoritarianism [dictatorship/tyranny]. It helps make us more free.

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Why Do Soldiers Die For Their Country?

Posted on January 13, 2009, filed Under Against War & Imperialism. Leave a Comment

By Scott R.

Why Do Soldiers Fight?

In war, soldiers fight to stay alive. They fight to keep their friends (their fellow soldiers) alive. When they sacrifice their life, it is to save the life of a friend. And when they are heros, it is because heroics were what was necessary to save their friends.

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Homeland Security?

Posted on December 29, 2008, filed Under Against War & Imperialism. Comments Off

A leaflet distributed by the WSA New York Branch

There are millions of people today in this City who are living in fear for their lives and safety. A devious and secretive group of enemies are daily hatching new schemes to ruin their way of live and to terrorize them into submission. Their enemies claim to be fighting for righteousness and are fanatical in pursuit of their goals. For many of its victims just to speak out against this enemy is to draw its anger and spite. Read more

Without our brain and muscle, not a single wheel can turn

Posted on December 29, 2008, filed Under Against War & Imperialism. Comments Off

So goes one of the verses of an old union anthem, “Solidarity Forever”

They have taken untold millions that they never toiled to earn
but without our brain and muscle not a single wheel can turn
we can smash their haughty power, take our freedom when we learn
that the Union makes us strong
Ralph Chaplin, Solidarity Forever

Those words ring as true today as they ever did before.

Those who can end terror and war are those who are forced to die in it and produce it, the working class, both here in the U.S. and in the “enemy” countries. Let Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld and Powell and their friends have to load the bombs, drive the trucks, fly the planes while the working people fold their arms and refuse to cooperate, and see how far they get with their war with Iraq. Read more

Against the Madness

Posted on December 29, 2008, filed Under Against War & Imperialism. Comments Off

A response to the Sept. 11th 2001 terrorist attacks

It is tragic that, in a world half-mad and wholly chaotic, emotion seems to have overwhelmed reason. The good, the intelligent and the humane side of women and men has been drowned in a sea of lies, ignorance and cruelty, and many of those who seek freedom and well being for all humanity grow discouraged and apprehensive. Yet hope remains alive as long as we can stop, reflect and ask ourselves hard questions and do not accept the current alternatives as being the only ones available. Read more