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A recollection published in the Spring 2015 issue of VVAW's "The Veteran"
Abstract: In this interview, the writer, activist, and well-known woman of color feminist and participant in grassroots left movements Aurora Levins Morales explores the action and language of participatory social change, considered... more
While both feminism and pacifism may appear to have stagnated in the 1950s with the rise of Cold War domesticity and McCarthyism, the Korean War galvanized women through the Women's International Democratic Federation (WIDF) to promote... more
This paper looks at Clara Zetkin's interactions with the British ant-war movement during the Great War, culminating in the International Socialist Women's Conference which she organised in Bern in 1915 and which attracted four British... more
This essay surveys antiwar films from around the world, examining their specific aesthetic and representational practices, to demonstrate how film-makers have attempted to demystify or de-glamorize war, with relatively mixed results, as I... more
(2018; master's capstone) Eva Gore-Booth (b. Co. Sligo, Ireland, 1870; d. London, England, 1926) was a poet and dramatist, part of the Irish literary revival of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Simultaneously, she was a political... more
This chapter addresses The War Is Over! campaign, the last initiative in Yoko Ono and John Lennon's 1969 Year of Peace, highlighting how the couple's interventionist and participatory approach to the public sphere in this event utilized... more
One of the ways in which the Bolshevik paradigm influenced socialist politics in Greece was through the dissemination of antinationalist and anti-war theses. An important part of the struggle within the Socialist Workers’ Party (SEKE)... more
This essay explores Käthe Kollwitz’s anti-war graphic work in the context of the German, and later, international No More War movement from 1920 to 1925, where it performed an important role in anti-militarist campaigns, exhibitions and... more
This article seeks to provide a critical analysis of the alter-globalisation movement as a potential 'postmodern Prince' as advanced by Stephen Gill. The article proposes that the social forces aligned under the rubric of alter-globalism... more
During the Vietnam War, American planes dropped more bombs on Cambodia than had fallen in all of Europe during World War II. The event marks a key moment in the secretive expansion of U.S. military power, and this article looks at how... more
Criterion Collection releases restored version of G.W. Pabst's antiwar WWI classic Westfront 1918 in a new century that hasn't changed.
"Merlyn," said the king, "It makes no difference whether you are a dream or not, so long as you are here. . . . Tell me the reason for your visit. Talk. Say you have come to save us from this war."
-T H White, The Book of Merlyn
-T H White, The Book of Merlyn
While the United States was involved in a military conflict in Vietnam, a large-scale antiwar movement developed in America. However, the antiwar movement was deeply influenced by the social movements of the 1960s while, at the same time,... more
Most diplomatic historians conclude that the failure of the Johnson administration’s second bombing pause over North Vietnam and first major peace offensive from December 25, 1965 to January 31, 1966 was a fait accompli. Moreover, the... more
With the Global War on Terror flaring up again in both Iraq and Afghanistan, we see that there is shift to a new type of warfare. There is a need to understand not only what war is contemporarily, but also the affects of war. This course... more
Cruel hunting for draftees at the streets is a common practice of brutal enforcement of conscription in Ukraine. Conscientious objection is practically forbidden. Near 17 000 of people punished the last five years for avoiding military... more
A total of 26 years separated the million-strong demonstration calling for “freedom, amnesty and autonomy statute” on the streets of Barcelona on 11th September 1977 and the 15th February 2003, when over 2 million people protested against... more
(with Amy Holmes) “Opposition to the US Military Presence in Turkey in the Context of the Iraq War,” in The Bases of Empire: The Global Struggle Against US Military Posts, ed. Catherine A. Lutz. London: Pluto Press, 2009, pp.270-298.
This poem appeared on the _Poets Against the War_ website, published by Sam Hamhill (Founder and Editor of Copper Canyon Press) in August 2003. The war being protested was the war in Iraq. This particular poem explores the weariness... more
Colloque International "Les Militaires dans la Fabrique de la Paix (XIXe -XXIe siècles)"
International Symposium "Soldiers in Peacemaking (19th-21st centuries)"
Paris, Château de Vincennes, 14-15 November 2019
International Symposium "Soldiers in Peacemaking (19th-21st centuries)"
Paris, Château de Vincennes, 14-15 November 2019
Critical review of To End All Wars, by Adam Hochschild. First appeared in Rey Desnudo. Revista de Libros, Nº 5.
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СОЦИАЛЬНО-ПОЛИТИЧЕСКИЕ КРИЗИСЫ В ИСТОРИИ РОССИИ, Шадринский государственный педагогический университет. Шадринск 2018
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СОЦИАЛЬНО-ПОЛИТИЧЕСКИЕ КРИЗИСЫ В ИСТОРИИ РОССИИ, Шадринский государственный педагогический университет. Шадринск 2018
https://elibrary.ru/item.asp?id=35118423
Founded by Lord David Davies in 1932, the New Commonwealth Society (NCS) was an anti-war organization with members in thirty-eight countries around the globe. Its principles included the establishment of an international equity tribunal,... more
Numbers matter. Given the official administrative silence in public concerning civilian casualties during the so-called “war on terror,” the burden of counting in public has shifted to non-governmental organizations. This essay analyzes... more
Ad inizio 2003 le città degli Stati Uniti furono inondate da grandi manifestazioni pacifiste che si opponevano all'imminente guerra in Iraq: il movimento per la pace, guidato da coalizioni come United for Peace and Justice e Win Without... more