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This booklet is a follow on from Against War and Terrorism Issue 1 which was published as a PDF booklet in October 2001. In this second issue (March 2002) we go into greater depth over a range of issues. We consider a better understanding of these issues to be essential in building a global anarchist movement.
If you haven't already done so it would probably be a good idea to read issue one as it provides a lot of the background to the articles contained in this issue. Many of the articles here assume this level of background knowledge on areas such as Islam, anarchism and anti-imperialism which Issue 1 provided.
As with the previous issue these articles represent the views of the individual authors alone who are currently living in Europe, the USA and the 'Middle East'.
The articles to be found in Issue 1 can be read or downloaded from http://struggle.ws/issues/war/pamOCT01.html
Aftermath for
Afghanistan
Why the Taliban were defeated so easily and what has been happening
in Afghanistan since the fall of the Taliaban.
Empire in Central
Asia
Imperialist rivalry in the Caspian Region based around exploitation
of it's resources of oil and gas and principally centred on the
different costs and benefits from various pipeline projects.
Civil Liberties and Civil
Rights in Time of War in the United States
The suppression of civil rights during the war in the US is part of a
long history of such suppressions. This time while officially
opposing Anti-Arab and anti-Muslim lynchings the state
committed itself to a policy of profiling and discriminating against
Muslims and Arabs - from above.
Enduring war and popular
mobilisation
The war has already seen a sizeable anti-war movement develop. It is
important we take a long term perspective and realise long wars are
dangerous for states.
Israel / Palestine is not a
nice place to live in - it is a war zone
An Israeli anarchist looks at the growing opposition to the
occupation and why it has developed. Includes the statement
The occupation
continues, the occupation will continue, is there any
solution
The modern
schizophrenia of Islamic integralism
To understand the ideology of Islam it is critical to understand that
the prophet-merchant Muhammad was beyond anything else the founding
father of worldly empires
Why the Reversion to
Islamic Archaism?
We reproduce a key 1981 essay on Islamic fundamentalism by the Middle
Eastern radical writer Lafif Lakhdar. This is a detailed
materialist history of the development of Islamic archaism up to the
Iranian revolution.