The Antimilitarist Committee of the Anarchist Federation of Italy Umanita Nova writes:

We have decided to be at the demonstration against all wars that
will take place in Florence (Italy) next November 09, with our
banderoles, flags, press and leaflets.
We made this choice for the simple reason that since ever we are
contrary to any war.

We made this choice because it is needed that we are in huge
numbers to cry it out. But we decided as well that it must be
clearly outspoken, with the contents that are part of our history as
anarchists.

— It is required to be antimilitarists. It's no use saying "NO wars"
unless with as much strength we say: NO to the tools of wars -
fabrication and sale of arms, prisons, law courts, polices, armies,
sexism, racism? the militarizing of our consciences.
— It is required to be against states. The existence of a bound
territory to be defended from suspected invaders is in itself cause
of wars. Nobody should ever be our enemy only because he lives
somewhere away from us.

— It is required to be against capitalism. The exploitation of the
capitalist system is under the eyes of everyone of us. Be it in the
rich and wealthy West or in other places, with different means and
more or less intensity, capitalism exploits, reduces to starvation,
kills. War is the ruling method of this system. To think one can
stand against war without opposing the model that produces it is
like being maimed.

— It is required to be anticlerical. Churches, the clergy,
ecclesiastical hierarchies? since ever they are vehicle of lacerations
among peoples, each pretending the upper role for their own God
and their own way to salvation. They speak peace while they foster
hate towards those that do not conform to their moral and
moralistic precepts.

WAR NEEDS YOU

YOU DON'T NEED WAR

AGAINST ALL MILITARISM OR HIERARCHY:

OBJECT
AND DESERT

FOR AN IMMEDIATE GENERAL STRIKE
IN CASE WAR
STARTS!

Anonymous Comrade writes :

"Location One invites you to join us online or in the gallery (Soho, New York) for:

PART TWO (A Networked Event on World Conflict)

Wednesday, October 30, 2002 8 PM, Free to the public

PART TWO (a networked event on world conflict) continues to experiment
with
the new collaborative software used at Location One in such events as
the
electronic presentation of Mac Wellman's Bitter Bierce. The focus of
this
ongoing investigation is to seek, in an informal way, the discursive
possibilities of a relatively new practice — the live digital video
mix.

Marxism and the American Worker

A special issue of Historical Materialism

Call for Papers

"America never stood still for Marx and Engels" (Irving Howe).

In 2003 Historical Materialism will publish a special issue, Marxism and
the American Worker. The centrepiece will be the first English translation,
by Daniel Gaido of Haifa University, of the long essay "The American Worker"
by Karl Kautsky. First published in 1906, in Die Neue Zeit, Kautsky was
responding to Sombart's famous book Why Is There No Socialism in the United
States? The special issue will also include critical analyses of ongoing
efforts within the Marxist tradition throughout the 20th century to come to
terms with this question, a debate reignited by the publication in 2000 of
It Didn't Happen Here: Why Socialism Failed in the United States, by Seymour
Martin Lipset and Gary Marks. In essays and reviews which range across
questions of the development of US capitalism, processes of class formation
and struggle, cultural politics, race and racism, gender relations, and
aspects of intellectual history, contributors to the special issue include
Johanna Brenner, Malik Miah, Kim Moody, Alan Wald, Paul Le Blanc, Michael
Goldfield, Robbie Lieberman, Charles Post, Dean Robinson, Boy Luethje,
Gerald Friedman, Loren Goldner and Bryan Palmer.

We invite submissions, of between 4000 and 7000 words, on any of these
themes. We are especially interested in receiving empirically grounded
Marxist analyses of the contemporary US working class and the contemporary
forms of its class struggle. We also would like to receive submissions
assessing the work of CLR James which sought to come to terms with American
civilisation.

Enquiries and submissions should be sent to the issue editor, Alan Johnson,
at johnson

Historical Materialism is a journal of critical research in Marxist theory
published quarterly by Brill Academic Press.

(Vancouver, Canada) — Delegates from Argentina, Sri Lanka, India, Nigeria, Haiti, Belgium and many more countries will share their work and struggles in what is shaping up to be an historic international women‚s conference, entitled "Towards our Liberation: an international women's conference against imperialist war and plunder" on the 1st to 4th of November, 2002, in Vancouver, Canada. Seats are limited for this important conference intent on highlighting and advancing women's role in the pursuit of national and social liberation. Interested participants should register before October 25, 2002, the registration deadline.