Workers Solidarity Movement

Voici, tel qu'on la trouve dans le Monde Libertaire #1077, la traduction francaise d'un texte extrait de Workers Solidarity, qui a paru en v.o. sur a-infos il y a quelques jours. Il n'est pas necessaire de preciser ici tout le bien qu'il faut penser de Workers Solidarity !

Coraz modniejsze stało się używanie terminu "globalizacja" dla określania światowej ekonomii i międzynarodowych stosunków politycznych. Uważa się, ze globalizacja zajęła miejsce imperializmu, kiedy to garstka potężnych krajów otwarcie i bezpośrednio kierowała większością świata.

Η εβραϊκή αντίσταση στο ισραηλινό κράτος

Ένας Ισραηλινός αναρχικός μιλά για την εβραϊκή αντίσταση στο ισραηλινό κράτος. Λίγο παλιό κείμενο, αλλά ενδεικτικό το ελευθεριακού αγώνα στην περιοχή.

Γιατί οι αναρχικοί είναι αντι-ιμπεριαλιστές και οι στόχοι του αντι-ιμπεριαλιστικού αγώνα.

Anti-War Ireland, in which WSM members in Dublin and Cork are participating, are holding a series of talks and demonstrations over the next week. There are three all former US army interrogators at Abu Ghraib and members now of Iraq Veterans Against the War, Joshua Casteel, Stephen Lewis and Tony Lagouranis who willing be speaking around the country over the coming week.

Marwa is a ten year old refugee from the village of Marwaheen in the south of Lebanon. Following an Israeli ultimatum Marwa’s family decided to flee. While driving away from the village the Israeli military fired on the pick up truck they were travelling in. Marwa recalls “The wind carried me far away, I woke up on the nearby rocks. Next to me, Mama and Mirna were sleeping. I went to them to wake them up but the plane saw me and came towards me so I ran away. My brother Wissam was hit in his leg and he could not reach me, he was hiding behind a rock and when the ambulance came he was waving to them to stop. Mirna was sleeping the whole time”. Marwa was sent to hospital for treatment for her burns and wounds. Her sister Mirna, 12, her brother Hadi, 5, and her mother Zahra, 51, were all killed (1)

On Wednesday August 9th anti-war protesters in Derry stormed into the local plant of US missile manufacturer Raytheon. They were protesting against the use of Raytheon technology by the Israelis and used by them for their attacks in Lebanon.

Imperialism, in its most basic form involves wealthy and powerful governments using their military power to invade poorer parts of the world in order to impose their control upon them. There isn’t the space to go into all aspects of imperialism here, so I’m concentrating on the military form.

The number of soldiers absconding from the British Army has trebled since the invasion of Iraq. The high profile case of RAF officer Malcolm Kendall-Smith, who has been jailed for refusing to return to Iraq to fight what he regarded as an illegal war, is an indication of the discontent within the armed forces.

Five peace activists have been acquitted of all charges in relation to their disarming of a US navy plane at Shannon airport in February 2003. The five, calling themselves the Pitstop Ploughshares, used axes and lump hammers to inflict over $2.5m worth of damage in what they described as a “non-violent ploughshares action”. In June they received a unanimous acquittal by using Section 6 of the Criminal Damage Act 1991 which allows for a “lawful excuse” where the damage is caused “in order to protect another or property belonging to another.” They say they were acting in defence of civilian life in Iraq, the local infrastructure, the lives of US soldiers and of Irish people who may become targets of a terrorist attack as a result of Irish complicity in the war.