With the intensification of the war at home and abroad, legitimized by the paranoid national security discourses of political elites since September 11th, 2001, the capitalist and imperialist war machine is undergoing a full expansion. Anarchists have a l
With the intensification of the war at home and abroad, legitimized by the paranoid national security discourses of political elites since September 11th, 2001, the capitalist and imperialist war machine is undergoing a full expansion. Anarchists have a long tradition of resisting wars, and that continues with the recent mobilization and resistance by anarchists to the ongoing war on Iraq. Yet how do we relate to the growing anti-war movement, book-ended as it is by liberals on the one side and authoritarian leftists on the other? What tactics have been used by different anarchist groups and tendencies? How can we confront the empire more effectively? What analysis can be made about the 21st century war machine and the contemporary anti-war movement?