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| Winter 2004 | Vol:IX-4 | Whole #: 36 |
Questions for the Peace Movement: The U.S. Occupation of Iraq
Joanne Landy
This article is part of an ongoing discussion of the Iraq war and its aftermath. Various New Politics editors will be writing on this subject in future issues, not always with identical viewpoints, and we welcome contributions from our readers.
| Winter 2005 | Vol:X-2 | Whole #: 38 |
Unraveling Iraq: The Sociopolitical and Ethical Dimensions of Resistance
Wadood Hamad
Iraq, as one long conversant in its fervent political history remarked to me, is much like the earth resting underneath a giant rock laid there for a very long time. The U.S.-led invasion of 2003 destabilized -- if not moved -- this rock and unleashed a multitude of organisms that were unknown even to local residents.
| Winter 2005 | Vol:X-2 | Whole #: 38 |
Self-determination and Democracy in the Iraqi Conflict
Barry Finger
The demand for national liberation, for the right of self-determination of a people, is understood by socialists to be a demand for radical, consistent democracy. This at once separates us from those who, such as the Buchananite paleocons, place the inviolability of the national principle above all other considerations and who may consistently oppose imperial interventions on that basis.
| Marvin Mandell | March 22, 2010 |
Kathryn Bigelow, the director of The Hurt Locker, claims that many men in Iraq and Afghanistan are addicted to war. If this is true, could it have something to do with the fact that GIs today do not face the endless bombardment from airplanes, field artillery, and tanks that World War II soldiers did?
I served in the 88th Infantry Division in Italy and I never met anyone so addicted. Had we met someone like that we would have considered him “Section 8,” that is, seriously disturbed.
Does that mean that many gung-ho GIs now serving in Iraq and Afghanistan are Section 8?
| Summer 2005 | Vol:X-3 | Whole #: 39 |
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Symposium on Iraq and the Antiwar Movement
We are pleased to publish the following exchange on the politics of the U.S. occupation, the Iraqi resistance, and the antiwar movement. The symposium builds on a trio of articles -- by Barry Finger, Wadood Hamad, and Glenn Perusek -- that appeared in New Politics 38 (Winter 2005).
Articles in the SymposiumThe Resistance and the Antiwar Movement, Anthony Arnove
Iraq and the Third Camp, Barry Finger
Struggling for Progress, In Iraq!, Wadood Hamad
Iraq and the Idea of Freedom, Peter Hudis
Letter to the Editor, Tom Unterrainer
Immediate U.S. Withdrawal and the Hope for Democracy in Iraq, Joanne Landy
No Blank Checks, Staughton Lynd
The Antiwar Movement and Iraq, Stephen R. Shalom
| Summer 2005 | Vol:X-3 | Whole #: 39 |
The Antiwar Movement and Iraq
Stephen R. Shalom
The antiwar movement needs to demand the immediate withdrawal of U.S. troops and an end to the U.S. domination of Iraq, not because we don't care about Iraqis, but precisely because we do care. And while we support any people's right to resistance, we should not "support the Iraq resistance."
Out Now!
| Summer 2005 | Vol:X-3 | Whole #: 39 |
No Blank Checks
Staughton Lynd
Barry Finger, Wadood Hamad, and Glenn Perusek all appear to demand the immediate withdrawal of United States forces from Iraq. (Finger, 26: "we demand an immediate withdrawal of occupation forces"; Hamad, 34: "We must demand a timely schedule for the withdrawal of occupation forces from Iraq over a fixed, limited period").
| Summer 2005 | Vol:X-3 | Whole #: 39 |
Immediate U.S. Withdrawal and the Hope for Democracy in Iraq
Joanne Landy
The peace movement should call for the immediate, unconditional withdrawal of all U.S. troops from Iraq and the closing of all military bases there: no temporizing, no negotiations, no timetables -- just bring the troops home, now. Peace activists should say to the American people that the occupation is part and parcel of an imperial U.S.
| Summer 2005 | Vol:X-3 | Whole #: 39 |
Letter to the Editor
By: Tom UnterrainerTo the Editor:
| Summer 2005 | Vol:X-3 | Whole #: 39 |
Iraq and the Idea of Freedom
Peter Hudis
Wadood Hamad is correct that many today are "stuck between two inadequate visions" -- either apologizing for U.S. imperialist actions or "cheering any misguided ‘apparent' resistance to imperialism." Avoiding these false alternatives is not only needed to develop a successful antiwar movement; it is needed to ensure that the idea of freedom is not forsaken by today's radicals.