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Conscientious Objector Status—Who Should Decide? Kenneth Clairmont 2008-05-11 10:51 PM
It is a fallacious and legalistic straw man ploy for any society or organization (such as the Department of Defense) to arrogate, as definition, that an individual must oppose “all” war on religious or ethical grounds to be considered a “conscientious objector”. Simply to be “conscientious” means to act from one’s “own” conscience—not from the collective hearsay of any particular group or on legalistic grounds of some corporate presumption. The individual conscience is the moral compass of conscientious authority. (text/plain)

May 4th, 1970: Can it happen again? Akeeba 2008-05-06 9:30 AM

Maoist China foreign policy: 1970s and 1980s Nigel Harris 2008-05-05 12:51 PM

The Mandate of Heaven (Excerpt). A detailed account of Maoist Chinese foreign policy is beyond the scope of this article, but some examples will illustrate the central thesis: that China’s foreign policy is in no way different from that of other world powers. The Three-Worlds Theory was used to justify Chinese alliances with right-wing reactionary governments during the 1970s and 1980s. (image/jpeg)

May Day Strike Against the War Shuts Down All U.S. West Coast Ports Internationalist Group 2008-05-05 3:47 AM
On May 1, every port on the West Coast of the United States was shut down to demand an end to the U.S. war and occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan. The historic May Day walkout by the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) is the first time ever that an American union has struck against a U.S. war. The union ranks defied the rulings of an arbitrator, who twice ordered them to go to work. They overcame the capitulations of the ILWU leadership, which didn't want the work stoppage in the first place, tried to water it down and cowered before the threats of legal action while waving the flag. The employers' Pacific Maritime Association (PMA) declared the May 1 port shutdown an "illegal strike." But after all the huffing and puffing from the bosses' mouthpieces, the dock workers pointed the way to defeating the imperialist war by mobilizing working-class power. In the end, it was more than a work stoppage. The dock workers' May Day strike against the war was a first step, a show of what it will take to bring down the warmongers in Washington. Their "symbolic" action was felt all the way to Iraq, where dock workers in two ports stopped work in solidarity with the ILWU. But it was only a beginning. What is needed is not only industrial action but a political offensive against the Democrats and Republicans, the partner parties of American imperialism, to build a class-struggle workers party. (text/html)

Las andanzas de Rockefeller en Paraguay Luis Agüero Wagner 2008-05-04 8:55 AM
Poco antes de las elecciones generales en Paraguay en las que resultó electo el obispo Fernando Lugo, el heredero del imperio petrolero fundado por John Davison Rockefeller en 1870, la Standard Oil Company, realizó una enigmática visita a Asunción. (text/plain)

New video from Nahr al-Bared Camp a-films 2008-05-03 8:55 PM
The anarchist video collective "a-films" announces its latest short film (10 min.) from the destroyed Nahr al-Bared Refugee Camp in Lebanon called "Traces of Collective Dispossession". (text/plain)

5th Anniversary of "Mission Accomplished" in Iraq Peter Stern 2008-05-02 8:04 PM

Happy 5th Anniversary, America! (image/jpeg)

BTL:Pentagon War Propaganda Operation Exposed Distributed by Squeaky Wheel Productions http 2008-05-02 3:39 PM
BETWEEN THE LINES Syndicated Radio Newsmagazine --Weekly Summary (text/plain)

Northeastern Anarchist #13, Spring 2008 Out Now! NEFAC 2008-05-01 10:52 PM

Workers at Sanitarios Maracay Fight for Dignity Cleveland Militant Labor in the 40s Vermont Communes in the 60s Public Sector Strike in South Africa The Ecological Challenge and more... (image/jpeg)

Water Wars Janet C. Phelan 2008-04-26 7:24 PM
The U.S. Patriot Act and other pieces of legislation authorize a "culling of the herds." (text/plain)

All Out on May Day! Internationalist Group 2008-04-26 1:18 PM
On May 1, all 29 ports on the U.S. West Coast are to be shut down by the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) in protest against the U.S. war on Afghanistan and Iraq. This is a historic event of international significance: labor action against imperialist war by a major American union. The strategically placed port workers in the ILWU can bring commerce with Asia to a grinding halt, and they’re about to demonstrate it. The maritime employers are already screaming, and you can bet it’s got the attention of the warmongers in Washington. All labor should take up the challenge this poses: For workers strikes against the war! Meanwhile, immigrants’ rights groups are once again mobilizing on May Day. And on April 30 and May 1, the independent truckers who move cargo to and from the docks may play an important role in a shutdown. The imperialist war on Afghanistan and Iraq is also a war on immigrants, minorities, working people and democratic rights “at home.” We need to defeat this attack here and abroad, in opposition to both the capitalist war parties. The “antiwar movement,” whose aim has always been to pressure the Democrats, is at a dead end. What’s needed is working-class action independent of the bosses. What that takes is a fundamental break from the Democratic Party and the pro-capitalist politics that infuse the labor bureaucracy. (text/html)

Help break the cycle of mass destruction peacehq 2008-04-24 4:24 PM
Footprints for Peace (Australia), with the active support of the French network for nuclear phase-out, will walk from London to Geneva (April 26 - July 18) via France for a nuclear-free world. (text/plain)

TODAY: Internet Forum by Cuban Students about the Cuban Five posted by F Espinoza 2008-04-02 12:15 PM

The main purpose of the forum will be to discuss what Cuban university students and those in the rest of the world could do to help the release of the Five Cuban men, who were arrested for having infiltrated Miami- based anti-Cuba groups and trying to prevent criminal actions against the island. (image/jpeg)

The Story of the Holy Name 6: Fracturing the Peace to End the War Jeff Leys, VCNV 2008-04-02 5:36 AM
Don't fracture the peace. (text/plain)

Paro portuario en la Costa Oeste contra la guerra el 1° de mayo Grupo Internacionalista 2008-04-02 3:49 AM
En lo que representa un paso de gran importancia para el movimiento obrero norteamericano, el International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU – sindicato internacional de estibadores y almacenistas) ha anunciado que paralizará los puertos de la Costa Oeste de Estados Unidos el 1° de mayo para exigir el cese inmediato de la guerra y la ocupación en Irak y Afganistán, así como el retiro de las tropas norteamericanas de Medio Oriente. Ésta es la primera vez en décadas que un sindicato en Estados Unidos ha decidido emprender una acción industrial en contra de una guerra de EE.UU. La acción anunciada por el poderoso sindicato de trabajadores portuarios de la Costa Oeste, un paro de labores para parar la guerra, debe ser retomada por sindicatos y organizaciones de trabajadores de todo Estados Unidos y a escala internacional. El propósito de semejantes acciones no debe ser suplicar a los políticos burgueses –cuyas manos están llenas de sangre, por haber aprobado a lo largo de los últimos seis años y medio todo presupuesto de guerra– sino dar una muestra de la fuerza de los trabajadores, que hacen funcionar este país, ¡y que pueden también pararlo! (text/html)

Cuito Cuanavale’s Victory was Neto’s Dream posted by F Espinoza 2008-03-27 4:30 PM

The victory in Cuito Cuanavale made the dreams of the father of the Angolan homeland, Agostinho Neto, come true, Cuban Major General Leopoldo Cintras Frias said here on Saturday. (image/jpeg)

Clinton like McCain: more of the same bill penn 2008-03-26 12:27 PM

Hillary is McCain Lite (image/jpeg + 1 comment)

Save Tibet! Boycott Beijing 2008 Olympic Games Everyone Group 2008-03-24 11:37 PM

Gruppo EveryOne is promoting a petition (www.petitiononline.com/fortibet) and an international campaign to ask for an immediate halt to the harsh sociocultural repression underway in Tibet, a repression perpetrated by the Chinese authorities towards thousands of innocent people. (image/jpeg + 1 comment)

FYI: PWW Defends Rev. Wright vs the Right Repost by CarlD 2008-03-24 3:41 PM
This is helpful. Pass it on. (text/plain)

Army Recruitment Site Remixed NoArmy.com 2008-03-23 8:27 PM
NoArmy.com, an unauthorized remix of GoArmy.com that tells the truth recruiters don't want you to know. (text/html)

Narcogobierno colombiano perpetra siniestra masacre en Ecuador Grupo Internacionalista 2008-03-21 11:38 AM
En la madrugada del 1° de marzo, aviones de guerra de la Fuerza Aérea colombiana lanzaron un ataque contra un campamento de las Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (FARC) ubicado dentro de territorio ecuatoriano. El propósito: asesinar al principal portavoz de las FARC para el exterior, Raúl Reyes. Las huellas digitales del imperialismo norteamericano se ven claramente en este macabro incidente. Ante semejante crimen, la respuesta debe consistir en movilizar a los trabajadores en una lucha de clase contra el imperialismo y a sus aliados criollos. En lugar de esto, el grueso de la izquierda latinoamericana se pone a la cola de los estados burgueses de Ecuador y Venezuela, buscando presionarles para que inicien una guerra contra Colombia. No obstante las muchas diferencias políticas que tenemos con las fuerzas guerrilleras de Colombia, que luchan por una “reconciliación” con sectores de la clase dominante, los trotskistas estamos de su lado en la guerra civil contra el estado capitalista. Pero insistimos que la guerrilla no es el camino a la revolución socialista que debe ser dirigida por la clase obrera a la cabeza de las empobrecidas masas rurales y urbanas. (text/html + 1 comment)

BTL: Bush Vetoes Torture Bill; Winter Soldier Hearings; Nader VP Running Mate Distributed by Squeaky Wheel Productions http 2008-03-16 2:57 PM
BETWEEN THE LINES Syndicated Radio Newsmagazine --Weekly Summary (text/plain)

March 13-16: Winter Soldier - Watch and Listen to Eyewitness Accounts IVAW - repost, Hammerhard MediaWorks 2008-03-11 3:41 PM

Winter Soldier: Iraq and Afghanistan will be broadcast live. Here's how you can watch and listen: (image/jpeg)

Indymeda US NewsReal February 2008 Indymedia presents 2008-03-09 6:34 PM
NEWSREAL is a monthly compilation of coverage from citizen journalists (like you!) across the nation. NEWSREAL's goals are to embolden the global movement for social, environmental, and economic justice, strengthen non-corporate communication networks, and to encourage authentic participatory democracy, one community at a time. Each episode of NewsReal is aired on Free Speech TV every month: - Charade Posing As Regs - PacificCorp Protest - Ethiopia Out of Somalia - Voice From North (text/html)

BTL:Colombia's Raid into Ecuador Triggers Regional Tension Distributed by Squeaky Wheel Productions http 2008-03-09 3:44 PM
BETWEEN THE LINES Syndicated Radio Newsmagazine --Weekly Summary (text/plain)

Does Hillary INTEND to be John McCain's running mate? 4peace 2008-03-08 2:03 AM
Based on her own words, it sounds like pro-neocon "Democrat" Hillary Clinton expects to share the White House with pro-neocon "Republican" John McCain. Could this be what some pro-neocon elites actually want? (text/plain + 1 comment)

South American anarchists and anti-militarists say NO to war Anarquistas y antimilitaristas 2008-03-07 2:28 PM

* The threat of armed conflict involving the governments of Colombia, Ecuador and Venezuela has mobilized anarchists and anti-militarists across the continent, in words and in action, to repudiate what would be a monstrous aggression by state powers against our peoples. Below there are two documents that call for struggle against this evil. (image/gif)

Tom Hayden on the Election, Antiwar Tasks and the PA Primary Repost by CarlD 2008-03-07 1:24 AM

Interesting piece--and pretty much on target. How about bring him to Pittsburgh for a rally or two? (image/jpeg)

Stop-Loss Congress David Rubinson 2008-03-06 3:20 PM
Does Congress want to go on vacation while wars rage in Iraq and Afghanistan? (text/plain)

3 Women for Peace Think Peace 2008-03-02 8:06 PM

Marianne Williamson, Medea Benjamin, Judith LeBlanc speak at the World Peace Forum. (image/jpeg)

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