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1. Iran 1979: this was not a revolution

   ... of the 1914-18 world war. Owing of its comparative military weakness compared to Iraq, and suffering a much heavier death-toll ... in return for Russia exercising restraint over Iran.  The content of this letter was subsequently denied but it does show the extent of ...

   World Revolution - 2009-03-09 21:22

2. Assault on the Capitol in Washington: the USA at the heart of the world-wide decomposition of capitalism

   ... hostile to America, or from an American “leftist”. Not at all: this was from ex-president George W Bush, a member of the same ... businessman. We can recall his run-in with the American military command which stopped him, at the last minute, from bombing Iran, or ...

   ICConline - 2021-03-22 10:26

3. Korea: playing with fire around a barrel of gunpowder

   ... in a deliberate provocation, aimed at sparking off a new military conflict. It threatened to put in place the military measures needed ... destruction, the frontiers between the North and South had not changed by a flea-hop, but the US had affirmed its military superiority and ...

   World Revolution - 2010-06-14 19:55

4. Class Struggle in Eastern Europe (1920-70)

   ... impossibility of spreading the proletarian revolution in a military way. It also showed the strength of nationalist ideology in countries ... by integrating them into the capitalist state. And the withdrawal of the Russian armed forces was promised. For five days, the ...

   International Review - 2011-10-19 22:49

5. Genocide in Rwanda: The crimes of French imperialism

   ... at the same time doing everything possible to obscure the military policy of France in the Ivory Coast. It was at the very same moment, ... Kigali and a new regime was installed. France then �had to content itself with creating a �secure humanitarian zone� in the west, ...

   World Revolution - 2005-03-31 16:33

6. Polemic: The proletarian political milieu faced with the Gulf War

   ... particularly intoxicated with nationalism (just as the Israeli proletariat is). In the second place, we don't see why we have ... the other hand, the fundamental rea­sons for the formidable military deployment by the USA and its acolytes completely pass these groups ...

   International Review - 2010-08-16 01:27

7. The working class and the wars of decomposing capitalism

   ... on the one hand and the USSR on the other established rival military blocs that for the next four or five decades would jockey for position ... litany of local conflicts: Korea, Vietnam, Cuba, Angola, the Israeli-Arab wars… That period – the so-called Cold War that was not so ...

   ICConline - 2016-01-24 09:59

8. Hypocrisy over flood relief for Mozambique

   ... for some time under the eyes of the great powers, it was not until NATO decided to intervene in the situation that billions were ... " Most of the 24 serviceable air force helicopters are on military service in the Congo" (Times, 1/3/00). The physical damage ...

   World Revolution - 2005-02-11 22:28

9. The dismantling of social security

   ... economic struggle had a historic sense. Emptied of this old content, the unions became, without changing form, an instrument of the ... bourgeoisie, conscious of the millions of victims that the military conflict would provoke, of the inevitable destruction and ravaging of ...

   World Revolution - 2004-12-24 18:59

10. War is a Pretext for Austerity

    ... to push through these cuts with only minimal opposition. Not only is the working class paying for the war with the lives and physical ... finance US imperialism’s war mongering policies. Military costs are escalating at a feverish pace for American capitalism, ...

    Internationalism USA - 2005-01-16 22:09

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