anti-war : Workers Solidarity Alliance

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.

Anarcho-Syndicalism and Direct Action

Posted on January 14, 2009, filed Under Worker Struggle. 2 Comments

(The Methods of Anarcho-Syndicalism)

By Rudolf Rocker. Ed. By Scott R.

Exerpted from: Rudolf Rocker, Anarcho-Syndicalism (1938).

People owe all the political rights and privileges which we enjoy today in greater or lesser measure, not to the good will of their governments, but to their own strength. Governments have employed every means that lay in their power to prevent the attainment of these rights or to render them illusory. Great mass movements among the people and whole revolutions have been necessary to wrest these rights from the ruling classes, who would never have consented to them voluntarily. Even the freest ballot cannot do away with the glaring contrast between the possessing and non-possessing classes in society. It can only serve to impart to a system of social injustice the stamp of legal right and to induce the slave to set the stamp of legality on his own servitude. But, most important of all, practical experience has shown that the participation of the workers in parliamentary activity [trusting politicians, political parties, labor law, etc.] cripples their power of resistance and dooms to futility their warfare against the existing system. Parliamentary participation has not brought the workers one iota nearer to their final goal; it has even prevented them from protecting the rights they have won against the attacks of the reaction.

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.

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.

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