Anarchist documents from Seattle
This page is a collection of documents sent to me by
comrades in Seattle from the time of the 1999 Seattle WTO conference
and the wonderful counter protests that disrupted it.
Summing up the Kaiser strike and
lockout 1998-2000
Union Leaders Fear A Self-Directed Rank And File More Than Defeat
At the time of the Gulf War in 1991 a small group in Seattle
called Charlatan Stew put out a leaflet titled
"No State Solution is a Good
Solution" and a small pamphlet titled "Effective Opposition to
War..." here called The US soldier
and the anti-Vietnam War movement
The offical strikers history of
The Seattle General
Strike of 1919
Comrades in Seattle also supplied me with this text,
The General strike, by
Bill Haywood
Against Ethnic Cleansing In The
Former Yugoslavia by Bob Myers
SOME NOTES AND INFORMATION ON ANARCHIST OPPOSITION TO WAR
Translations and Summaries by Charlatan Stew
- Coming to
Grips with The War
by the (Swiss) Federation anarchiste romande (1939) - " Perhaps
the tragic hour could have been postponed, but there was no hope
that it could have been avoided."
- Anarchist
Activity in France during World War Two
Notes on Jean Rene Sauliere was one of the anarchist participants
in the French resistance to the Nazis and their Vichy
collaborators during World War II
- To
All Intellectual and Manual Workers
Translation of a text written by anarchists in Marseille in 1943.
Between 3,000 and 5,000 copies were printed in Toulouse.
- Death
to The Brutes
French anarchist poster from1943 - "Thousands of proletarians
of all countries are dying, while men of finance, politics and
war, brutes that they are, congratulate each other"
- Some
Further Notes on Left-libertarian Opposition to War
Anarchist and libertarian socialist opposition to capitalist war
goes back to the beginning of the twentieth century
- Capitalist
Democracy -Why It Must Fail
Tor Cedervall write in 1937 - "The slogan of each group
resolves itself into--keep Capitalism, but keep out Fascism! "
- Anarchist
Opposition to Japanese Militarism, 1926-37
anarchists in pre-war Japan constituted a core of opposition to
militarism until the state destroyed their movement in 1935/6
- Manifesto of
the International Anarchist Conference... 1948
Two blocks of States stand facing each other, and war threatens,
The hopes which the peoples founded on technical progress,
material abundance and the unity of the world have been ruined
- Additional
Readings on States, War and Opposition
A list of suggested further readings on war
- "Freedom"
and Freedom in 1945
At our last meeting I said that if our comrades were imprisoned,
we who remained free would continue the struggle against the
forces of repression now active in this country.
Articles on Chile
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