Today marks the 80th anniversary of the of World War II on the European continent. This week is also fifty years after the Vietnam War’s end. What are the lessons for today from the peace movement on mobilizing resistance
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The huge Israeli protests have been about bringing down the Netanyahu government. They also had a deeper, more subversive message. Without any of the speakers explicitly saying as much, Sunday’s demonstrations were for an end to the war.
There were no words for what to say about the war for 19-year-old combat vets coming home in 1967. Words like post-traumatic stress, survivor guilt did not exist. This book reveals the inner world of many war veterans that home folks haven’t a clue.
The antiwar movement now stands at a crossroads this summer, poised to become a transformative force for peace in a world wracked by violent conflict.
U.S. Labour Opposition to War and Fascism
Everything that Israel is doing to the people of Gaza—especially killing civilians through intensive aerial bombardment—was prefigured during the American “ground war” in Vietnam.
Staughton Lynd seemed like a personal force almost more than a person within the antiwar movement of the 1960s. My Country Is the World largely and usefully recounts the controversies that came with his rise in the peace movement of the middle 1960s
A look back at the history-making mobilization against the Iraq War that turned ordinary people into a “second superpower” — one we badly need today.
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