The Fifth Anniversary of the Iraq War approaches
As the Fifth anniversary of the Iraq War approaches, inviting all of the expected hyperbole by our unimaginative brothers and sisters in the anti-imperialist and anti-militarist struggles here in the belly of the beast, our Troops Out Today Directorate wonders what lessons activists have learned from the past several years.
There certainly have been many of the greatest examples of factionalism on many sides of the conflict, from sectarian fighting in Iraq to break-ups of conservative counter-protester groups to, of course, splinters in the anti-war movement. Granted, UFPJ isn't sending suicide bombers to ANSWER rallies, and ANSWER in turn isn't assassinating Troops Out Now Coalition clerics. But both of these manifestations of opposition factionalism are very valuable to us indeed.
As the Troops Out Today Directorate, in collaboration with SO!UTION (Stop Occupations! United To Implode Oppression Network) and the Union for Justice with Peace (UJP), was the initial callers for demonstrations on March 19th and 20th (by getting the ball rolling a full twenty months ago), we are excited to see separate protest rallies and marches will be held in many cities, but frustrated that some of the other, albeit more reformist anti-war coalitions are actually working collaboratively, a travesty if ever there was one. When demonstrations are separate, it allows the news media to better establish which anti-war coalitions are strongest. Irregardless, SO!UTION and UJP expect to hold a rally in Los Angeles with forty thousand participants, and a simultaneous one in New York's Staten Island borough with ninety thousand attendees.
And there are also great developments in the CP(F) efforts to usurp Iraq Veterans Against the War and related groups to our own ends (namely, more factionalism), though we are finding stiff competition for these exact same aims from the International Socialist Organization. Why can't they understand that we are simply better usurpers and factionalizers than they are?
There certainly have been many of the greatest examples of factionalism on many sides of the conflict, from sectarian fighting in Iraq to break-ups of conservative counter-protester groups to, of course, splinters in the anti-war movement. Granted, UFPJ isn't sending suicide bombers to ANSWER rallies, and ANSWER in turn isn't assassinating Troops Out Now Coalition clerics. But both of these manifestations of opposition factionalism are very valuable to us indeed.
As the Troops Out Today Directorate, in collaboration with SO!UTION (Stop Occupations! United To Implode Oppression Network) and the Union for Justice with Peace (UJP), was the initial callers for demonstrations on March 19th and 20th (by getting the ball rolling a full twenty months ago), we are excited to see separate protest rallies and marches will be held in many cities, but frustrated that some of the other, albeit more reformist anti-war coalitions are actually working collaboratively, a travesty if ever there was one. When demonstrations are separate, it allows the news media to better establish which anti-war coalitions are strongest. Irregardless, SO!UTION and UJP expect to hold a rally in Los Angeles with forty thousand participants, and a simultaneous one in New York's Staten Island borough with ninety thousand attendees.
And there are also great developments in the CP(F) efforts to usurp Iraq Veterans Against the War and related groups to our own ends (namely, more factionalism), though we are finding stiff competition for these exact same aims from the International Socialist Organization. Why can't they understand that we are simply better usurpers and factionalizers than they are?
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