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24.01.2022 Nineteen years ago, I was lifting weights at Chesterton High School with my childhood friend, Chris, when the planes hit the twin towers. Everyone ran to the te...levision set that was perched in the corner of the room to watch the carnage unfold. We were only seventeen at the time. A little more than year later, on September 15th, I found myself standing on yellow footprints at the U.S. Marine Corps Recruit Depot in San Diego, California. Six months later, I was on the border of Kuwait-Iraq, awaiting orders to invade. The war was both horrific and surreal. Left to our own devices, marines took it upon themselves to engage in all sorts of brutal behavior: killing civilians, torturing people, destroying and stealing property, desecrating the dead, and documenting the whole ordeal with digital cameras. Since then, many of my brothers have died from suicide, drug overdoses or cancer (more than died in combat). Sergio Alexander Kochergin and I returned home from the war and immediately joined the anti war movement, which, in the end, probably saved us from doing something really destructive. Sometimes, that history seems like a distant memory. Other times, it seems like it all happened yesterday. Today, its more of the former than the latter. Millions dead. Millions more displaced. Families, lives, communities, and dreams destroyed. Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria, Yemen, Pakistan, Somalia, Palestine, and beyond. This is the legacy of Uncle Sams post-9/11 imperial adventures. The U.S. has destabilized the entire world. The post-9/11 political, economic, and cultural landscape fueled Trumps ascent to power. Theres no way to understand whats happening today without examining the past 20 years. In the end, we must end U.S. Empire if we hope to survive the century. Its just that simple. Only full scale demilitarization will suffice. Our only hope is international solidarity across national boundaries. I believe another world is possible. Signed, USMC Combat Veteran | 2002-2006 | 1st Battalion, 7th Marines, Alpha Company, 3rd Platoon, 1st Squad, 3rd Fire Team, Squad Automatic Machine Gunner

23.01.2022 We have more problems, but the climate crisis has not gone away

23.01.2022 For some workers, even a semblance of justice never seems to arrive

23.01.2022 It may be time to consider overthrowing capitalism and replacing it with a system that deals with our problems. Because our problems are starting to deal with us

22.01.2022 In solidarity with our sisters and brothers in Bangladesh

20.01.2022 Stop the repression in Iran Stop the death penalty

20.01.2022 This Monday. Stop the murders. Justice for victims, prison for the murderers

17.01.2022 In solidarity with the struggle of our sisters and brothers in Iran

17.01.2022 The repression against the popular movement is increasing as the first year anniversary of the mass protests nears

15.01.2022 In solidarity with our comrades in South Korea

15.01.2022 In solidarity with workers everywhere

14.01.2022 Why join a union ? Because companies in the past gave us nothing, and because companies today give NOTHING without pressure, not even water and toilet breaks

14.01.2022 To organise is not a crime. Freedom now

14.01.2022 A Region in Revolt:Mapping the recent uprisings in North Africa and West Asia. A worthwhile read and a chance to hear and talk to the authors.

13.01.2022 The state of barbarity in Iran. In solidarity

13.01.2022 https://www.facebook.com/IASWI/posts/3205306299587284

12.01.2022 Government attempts to stop the protests including trying to remove toilets.....

11.01.2022 In solidarity with Pakistani workers

11.01.2022 Enough murders. Stop the repression in the Philippines

10.01.2022 Today is the anniversary of Pinochet's coup against the Allende government in Chile. A historic crimes of fascism and the USA

08.01.2022 Some good news from Turkey

07.01.2022 Australia's repression against asylum seekers and refugees continues to be a bureaucratic hell with no end in sight

07.01.2022 CFMEU statement on AFP raids.

05.01.2022 This is in the Financial Times, written to help capitalists and their loyal management servants to be ready

05.01.2022 A photo of the protests in Bangkok. Up to 100,000. General Strike next?

02.01.2022 Our class, globally is always the one that is made to carry the risks and to sacrifice. In international solidarity