A bitter national controversy has once again erupted over the draft. Many of the same people who demonstrated against the Vietnam war are back in the streets, chanting, “Hell no, we still won’t go!” What is new in the uproar is the emergence of the woman question at center stage. While the antiwar movement and… Read more »
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The antidraft movement: New faces and old problems
At summer’s end, the antidraft movement was boldly challenging government statistics on how many 19- and 20-year-olds had refused to register. Unprecedented in U.S. history were the hundreds of thousands of refusals to register prior to an actual draft. The Boston Globe reported an average of 25% noncompliance, running to 47% in some urban centers…. Read more »
Cowboy Reagan rides a Trojan horse
Not since the Nixon years has Washington, D.C. glittered so brightly with the diamonds, furs and tuxedos of the visibly rich. The Republicans are back, and with them comes the gloss of snappy dress guards at the White House and unrestrained pride in the global network of terror, intrigue, economic thievery and political repression that… Read more »
El Salvador: Vietnam of the Americas
Pentagon might and the Reagan right are inflicting carnage on tiny El Salvador. To win supremacy for the unspeakable junta, the U.S. is directly assisting in the slaughter of all people who oppose the regime — roughly 90% of the 5.5 million Salvadorans. The media blitz concocted by the White House portrays the junta as… Read more »
Recollections of mortality: The booming antiwar front
On the third day of May, huge antiwar demonstrations — the first since the Vietnam days of rage — assembled at the Pentagon and in San Francisco, Seattle, and Kansas City. It is likely that 100,000 protesters marched. But it is certain that this mass outpouring of people had a vast agenda of interlocking grievances,… Read more »
Socialist military policy – Who shall control the guns?
Millions of U.S. youth face a new draft. The slogan of the hour is “Stop the draft!” Is this enough? Imperialist war is abhorrent and counterrevolutionary. It is also intrinsic to capitalism. And if militarism is to be successfully challenged, the Left must address the roots of war, and the critical issue of the class… Read more »
Europe on the march: Which way for the peace movement?
A tidal wave of human indignation swept Western Europe at the close of 1981. Three million protesters jammed the streets of London, Amsterdam, Madrid, Athens, Brussels, Rome, Paris, Bonn, Oslo, and other cities, demanding a halt to NATO’s plans to set up Europe as a nuclear battlefield. The series of massive demonstrations in October and… Read more »
The profits and politics of war
Two hundred and eight billion dollars is a staggering sum. But not to the U.S. Senate. Last December, the august senators handed over precisely that amount to the Pentagon when an overwhelming, bipartisan vote approved the race of U.S. capital to make the world “safe” for imperialist aggression. This Christmas present to the warmakers is… Read more »
The Malvinas: comic opera or prelude to World War III?
Frantically waving the Union Jack, imperialism has just completed a fierce and deadly war over a barren archipelago in the South Atlantic. From the time Argentina reclaimed the Malvinas (Falkland Islands) from British colonialism on April 2 until its defeat on June 15, the English carried on like something out of Gilbert and Sullivan —… Read more »
Fascist butchers, compromising rebel leaders, and an electoralfarcecomplicate the scenario in El Salvador
Relying on the same bogus electoral tactics used in the early period of the Vietnam war, the U.S. concocted elections in El Salvador in March that impressed nobody. Fascist death squad leader Roberto D’Aubisson was installed as head of the Salvadoran Constituent Assembly while Reagan and Haig hailed the voter turnout as a triumph for… Read more »
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