The War and You

November 4, 2018

 As we went to Press with our last issue, but too late for us to deal with the events in our pages, the great capitalist States of Europe were flinging declarations of war at each other and rushing in frenzied haste to the long-expected and carefully prepared for Armageddon. When we say that this mad …

The Balkan Conspiracy

 To arms! To arms! Thus once again is the “Eastern Question” answered. Turk and Bulgarian, Mohammedan and Christian, are at one another’s throats in a frenzy of blood-lust. The clash of arms and the roar of guns once more shake the hills and mountains of the near East, and the cries of wounded and dying …

The Yugoslav Wars Myths & Realities

 Once again the socialist assertion that nationalism can never serve the interests of the working class is being attested to daily amidst the horrors of the war in the former Yugoslavia. Despite claim and counter-claim of atrocities committed by one side or the other the simple fact is that worker is butchering worker—for the privilege …

More promises in Washington

 This article has been reproduced from the December 1997 Socialist Standard, the monthly journal of the Socialist Party. With a million more members than the Nation of Islam and with an alleged turnout for their recent “Gap in the Wall” gathering of 800,000, twice the attendance of Louis Farrakhan’s “Million Man March”, many take the …

U.S.A. flexes its muscles in the Gulf

 As we have mentioned in our editorial at the end of October 1997 another crisis emerged in the Middle East when Saddam Hussain banned Americans from the United Nations (U.N.) Special commission (UNscom) charged with monitoring Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction. A further conflagration threatened when Saddam promised to shoot down any U.S.A. reconnaissance planes …