AS IV went to press the imperialist war drive orchestrated by the US and its allies following the events of September 11, 2001 was shifting up a gear, with increasingly vocal threats against Iraq and new and savage Israeli incursions into the West Bank.
Drive to war accelerates
15 April 2002, byTHE US is not only preparing to launch all-out war against Iraq, without anything that can be claimed as new justification from the Iraqi side, but has decided to use nuclear weapons in that war if necessary.
Palestine terrorised
15 April 2002, byAS we went to press the Israeli army was continuing its siege of Ramallah, Bethlehem, Hebron, Nablus, Jenin and many other Palestinian towns.
America’s global gamble
15 April 2002, byPeter Gowan is a long-time editor of New Left Review and author of The Global Gamble - America’s Faustian Bid for World Domination (Verso 2000. In the light of the events since September 11, his argument that the US is trying to establish absolute world domination seems remarkably prescient.
Philippines: fighting military globalisation
15 April 2002, byHarry Tubongbanwa of the Revolutionary Workers’ Party of Mindanao looks at the background to the current US military intervention in his country.
The Mindanao People’s Peace movement
15 April 2002, byThe Mindanao People’s Peace movement is a long-term grass roots movement fighting for peace in Mindanao which continued its work after September 11.
Against the deployment of the US military troops in the Philippines
15 April 2002THE ’’all-out-peace’’ declaration of Philippine President Arroyo, aimed at a resolution of the conflict in Mindanao, has now turned into an all-out US-backed military campaign.
Stop the bombing in Caguan! No to Plan Colombia!
15 April 2002At last, and just as the United States had been demanding, the reactionary and neo-liberal government of Andres Pastrana has opted for all-out war.
Zimbabwe’s rip-off poll
15 April 2002, by ,BY a vote of 1.69 million for Robert Mugabe to 1.28 million for Morgan Tsvangirai, the people of Zimbabwe re-elected the Zimbabwe African National Union (Zanu) president in early March. The Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), founded in September 1999, lost by more than in the last national election, in June 2000 when Zanu gained a small majority of parliamentary seats.