Be Freedom
January 23, 2020 "Information
Clearing House" -
The rapid response to US war moves against
Iran has been an exciting start toward
rebuilding the anti-war movement we so
desperately need. Thousands took to the
streets in more than 80 cities. It’s
a great beginning. But, if we want a
movement of millions we are going to have to
reach everyday people outside of the
existing movement, outside of partisan
politics and outside of strictly moral
appeals.
We start by waging peace because the
anti-war movement is the main path to
anti-imperialist action — or so
the history of the Vietnam Era would
suggest. If we want to grow from a radical
movement of thousands to a disruptive
movement of millions our job is to help
people discover their own economic and
political interests for opposing war and
empire. In other words, we have to help
people see war not simply as a morality
play, or electoral politics, or as a
separate “foreign policy” issue but as a
power struggle — their struggle.
