[lbo-talk] Seven Theses on the Current Period, the War and the Anti-war Movement

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

Dennis Redmond dredmond at efn.org, Sun Oct 3 14:29:42 PDT 2004:
>  > The problem this time around is that the frontline anti-war forces
>>  have seen a decline in activity since the invasion,
>
>Eh? The oiligarchy's minions have been falling like dominoes. Spain: 
>long gone. Poland: about to bolt the tent. Blair: beginning to melt, 
>in that Orthanc-tower of his. The overwhelming majority of the 
>planet is against the war.

It's not the overwhelming majority of the Planet that have sent 
soldiers to Iraq.  It's only a small and dwindling "coalition of the 
willing," and among them, it is Washington and London (a distant 
second) that have supplied the overwhelming majority of soldiers of 
the occupation.  Gilbert Achcar is mainly concerned about the decline 
of anti-war mobilization in the United States in part due to 
illusions of "settling the question through the ballot box," but the 
same problem exists in the United Kingdom as well: 
<http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/pipermail/lbo-talk/Week-of-Mon-20040927/022168.html>.
-- 
Yoshie

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