Class Struggle versus Pacifism:
The Lessons of the Gulf War
From International Trotskyist No. 3, Second Quarter 1991.
Introductory Note: Workers’ Voice (under its original name, Revolutionary Trotskyist Tendency) participated actively in the protests against the first Gulf War in 1991. That struggle was notably unsuccessful, as were the subsequent mass protests against the invasion of Iraq by the second Bush administration. This article examines the reasons for the antiwar movement's lack of success since Vietnam, and proposes alternative methods.
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(See also our earlier agitational article on the Gulf War, entitled Labor Actions to Stop the War Machine!.)
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