nationalism

The Socialist Workers Party on the Iran-Iraq war, 1987

Brief extracts from Socialist Worker, which illustrate the SWP's support for Iran during the Iran-Iraq war.

“we have no choice but to support the Khomeini regime”

"...it would be wrong to strike...

“socialists should not call for the disruption of military supplies to the front… should not support actions which could lead to the collapse of the military effort”

Socialist Worker - 28/11/87

Nationalism and the road to happiness for the Chinese

This article by the Chinese anarchist writer Ba Jin was originally published in Awakening the People, No. 1, September 1921.

Chinese society is at the darkest stage now. Under such circumstances, young people become impotent and weak without the power to resist corruption. Even the brave ones can only keep quiet and submit to fate. When it is really unbearable, suicide is the only way out. China is paralyzed; where can we find happiness?

The Sixth Declaration, the Zapatistas, nationalism and the state

A short examination of the Zapatistas and nationalism written in late 2007 as a discussion document by a then-member of a local UK Zapatista solidarity group.

Understanding exactly what is meant by the Sixth Declaration is a difficult task. While the Declaration opens with a reference to it being the ‘simple word’(1) of the EZLN there is a certain, perhaps deliberate, lack of theoretical clarity. This can, completely understandably, cause problems interpreting the document and the Zapatista position.

The Pogroms in South Africa: The Politics of Fear and the Fear of Politics

A response to the recent pogroms in South Africa from the anti-authoritarian militant intellectual Michael Neocosmos.

by Michael Neocosmos, 5 June 2008

Anarchist integralism: art, politics and the apres-garde - Stewart Home

An article on nationalist, elitist and racist currents in anarchist thought, past and present. It makes important points, but is guilty of over-generalisation, sectarianism, and excursions deep into wind-up territory.

It also veers between classical anarchist thinkers and modern primitivism at the expense of most of the history of anarchism as a social movement. By Luther Blissett, aka Stewart Home. Originally published by Sabotage Editions, London, 1997.

National liberation and state power - An anarchist critique of the MPLA in Angola

A text written around 1980 by Martin Spence outlining a critique of the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA), and national liberation struggles in general.

INTRODUCTION

Class struggle in Iraq - interview with a veteran

16th MARCH 1991. ON THE ANNIVERSARY OF BLOODY HALABJA IN FRONT OF SULLIEMANIA'S SARA (MAIN COP STATION).

An interview covering class struggle in Iraq from the '40s to early '90s in Iraq.

The following interview was first published in 'Workers Scud - no patriot can catch us!' (London, June 1991), a collection of articles reflecting on the Gulf War.

The Class Struggle in Iraq - an interview with a veteran
Q: Can you briefly tell us about the class struggle in Iraq before the overthrow of the monarchy in 1958?

1919: The Story of the Limerick Soviet

The Story of the Limerick Soviet, April 1919 By D.R. O'Connor Lysaght (1979)

Introduction

On 21st January, 1919, Dail Eireann held its opening session and the Irish Volunteers drew their first mortal blood since 1916 at Soloheadbeg, Co. Tipperary. These facts have set the seal for subsequent historians of the first months of the year.

Yugoslavia: Imperialist war against the world proletariat, 1990s - ICG

The ICG's analysis of the war in Yugoslavia, with information about the preceding wave of workers struggles in the region.

For us the analysis of the war in Yugoslavia is indispensable. This war is not only of the greatest importance for its direct consequences for the conditions of life and struggle of proletarians in the region - it is also important for the international proletariat, and because it announces and prefigures the military conflicts that are to come.

From Communism #9

- "Is that you, Mladic?"

Some basic ingredients of Yugoslav ideology

BM Blob's pamphlet on Yugoslavia including details of the strike wave in the mid-late '80s.

The Historical Context
Yugoslavia emerged from the ruins of the first world war and under the name of the Kingdom of Sets, Slovenes and Croats grouped itself around the kingdom of Serbia. In 1929 it became the 'Kingdom of Yugoslavia".