- Christmas in the Trenches
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1984
Lyrics to a song commemorating the Christmas Truce of 1914 on the Western and Eastern Fronts during World War I.
- Dangerous Grounds
Antiwar Coffeehouses and Military Dissent in the Vietnam Era
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2017
As the Vietnam War divided the nation, a network of antiwar coffeehouses appeared in the towns and cities outside American military bases. Owned and operated by civilian activists, GI coffeehouses served as off-base refuges for the growing number of active-duty soldiers resisting the war.
- Disobedience
Introduction to the January 22, 2017 issue of Other Voices
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
Ultimately all power structures depend on the obedience of those over whom they rule. It helps if people believe in the legitimacy of those who wield power, but the crucial thing is obedience. Once people start to disobey in significant numbers, the dynamic of power changes fundamentally. Disobedience, especially on a large scale, shakes the power of the rulers, and increases the power of those who disobey.
- Echo Platoon
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2009
Echo and other platoons like it are grim yardsticks for measuring the desperation in which a military under immense strain is now operating. Looking up at that military from Echo's airless limbo, from a world of soldiers who have fallen through the cracks of a system under great stress, you can see just how devastating America's two ongoing wars have been for the military itself. The walking wounded, the troubled, and the broken are now being pressured to reenter the fray.
- Firing Line
Resource Type: Book
- Forgotten Graffiti Sheds New Light on Long, Hot Journeys to Vietnam
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
Inside a rusting former US army ship, historians found vivid details of the hopes and fears of soldiers bound for war.
- The Fort Hood 43
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
A history of the 43 infantrymen who refused to be deployed against protestors at the 1968 Democratic National Convention.
- Fragging
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
The assassination of an unpopular officer by members of his own unit.
- GI Coffeehouses Recalled: a Compliment From General Westmoreland
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2018
The New York Times has published an op-ed piece by historian David Parsons about the coffeehouses started near US bases during the War in Vietnam.
- ISIS and the IDF: Canada's Double Standard
Who are the Real Terrorists?
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
Why can westerners join the Israeli Defense Forces while westerners joining Islamic State are despised and killed? In what sense is the IDF scenario any less reprehensible than the IS one?
- Israeli attacks on a dissident soldiers' group could backfire
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
Yehuda Shaul was an infantryman in the Israeli army in Hebron during the second intifada. But in recent weeks, he and his group of veterans have been vilified by right-wing organizations and mainstream politicians in a public campaign against Israeli groups critical of their country's occupation of Palestinian territories.
- Killing America's Kids
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2009
Why is the Secretary of Defense so angry at having the war photographed? Easy: Spin control. Spin is so very important in war these days. While America is only barely a democracy, still, if the public, the great sleeping, acquiescent, ignorant beast, ever gets really upset, the war ends. The Pentagon is acutely aware of this.
- Luxemburg, Müller and the Berlin workers' and soldiers' councils
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
Rose reviews and discusses two important books about the German Revolution, "Working-Class Politics in the German Revolution: Richard Müller, the Revolutionary Shop Stewards and the Origins of the Council Movement", and "The German Left and the Weimar Republic: A Selection of Documents".
- Massacres and Morality
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2018
What can one say about the morality of Israeli soldiers who shoot unarmed protestors, and then are caught on camera cheering their kills? And how do we judge the civilian population of Israel, many of whom openly support and cheer their soldiers as they go about their work of killing Palestinians? And what can we say about the political leaders of other countries, Canada say, who sit down and smile and make deals with officials of the Israeli government at the very moment that the killing is going on?
- The modern US army: unfit for service?
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
Gone are the days of the all-American army hero. These days, the US military is as likely to be a sanctuary for racists, gang members and the chronically unfit.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - January 29, 2015
Land seizures and land take-overs
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 2015
This issue of Other Voices focuses on the issue of land seizures and land take-overs. Also included: Greece's solidarity movement, and the challenges and opportunities it faces after the election of a Syrizia government. From the archives, there are interviews about the 1974 occupation of Anicinabe Park, an article about anti-dicrimination fighter Viola Desmond, and the publication, in 1929, of All Quiet on the Western Front.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - May 7, 2015
Urban agriculture and local food production
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 2015
This issue of Other Voices ranges widely, from increasing worker activism and strikes in China, to advances in battery technology that make it much easier and cheaper to store solar and wind energy for future use, to testimonies from Israeli soldiers about the war crimes they committed routinely and as a matter of policy in last summer's attack on Gaza.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - December 19, 2015
Utopia
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 2015
Utopian visions, be they practical or not, free our imaginations, if only for a little while, from the daily grind of struggle and worry, and allow us to dream about the kind of world we would hope to live in. Such dreams can inspire us and guide us, even if they are not always quite practical. This issue of Other Voices peers into the world of utopian visions, practical or otherwise.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - January 22, 2017
Disobedience
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 2017
Ultimately all power structures depend on the obedience of those over whom they rule. It helps if people believe in the legitimacy of those who wield power, but the crucial thing is obedience. Once people start to disobey in significant numbers, the dynamic of power changes fundamentally. Disobedience, especially on a large scale, shakes the power of the rulers, and increases the power of those who disobey. Disobedience is the theme of this issue.
- Our Harsh Logic
Israeli Soldiers' Testimonies from the Occupied Territories, 2010-2010
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2012
Testimonies from more than 100 soldiers detailing the viciousness of Israel's military in the occupied Palestinian territories.
- Portugal: The Impossible Revolution?
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1977
The story of what happened in Portugal between April 25, 1974 and November 25, 1975, as seen and felt by a deeply committed participant.
- Presidio mutiny
Wikipedia article
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
The Presidio mutiny was a sit-down protest carried out by 27 prisoners at the Presidio stockade in San Francisco, California on October 14, 1968. The stiff sentences given out at courts martial for the participants (known as the Presidio 27) attracted attention to the extent of sentiment against the Vietnam War in the armed forces.
- Secret Armies, Shadow Wars, Silent Unaccountability
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
We live today in an era of postmodern war. It's a two-front war -- the first being the virtual front of threats, posturing, and arms buildups we persist in waging, Cold War-style, against state-based mirror-images of ourselves (Russia and China); the second being the dirty front we wage in the shadows against irregular, non-state thugs and pygmy tyrants who use their weaknesses as strengths, asymmetrically, to turn our strengths into weaknesses.
- A Shameful Situation
Millions of Soldiers and Veterans in Serious Trouble
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
Millions of US soldiers and veterans are in serious trouble, in the areas of suicide, homelessness, unemployment, poverty, disability, medical care, and mental health.
- Sir! No Sir!
Resource Type: Film/Video
Published: 2005
A documentary about the anti-war movement within the ranks of the United States Armed Forces during the Vietnam War.
- Six Red Months in Russia
An Observers Account of Russia Before and During the Proletarian Dictatorship
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1918
Louise Bryant's account of her time in Russia during the revolution 1917-1918.
- Soldiers in Revolt
GI Resistance during the Vietnam War
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2005
A definitive account of GI resistance in the Vietnam War. With an introduction by Howard Zinn.
- The Story of the Christmas Truce
Resource Type: Article
On Christmas Day, 1914, in the first year of World War I, German, British and French soldiers disobeyed their superiors and fraternized with "the enemy" along two-thirds of the Western Front. German troops held Christmas trees up out of the trenches with signs, "Merry Christmas." "You no shoot, we no shoot." Thousands of troops streamed across no-man's land strewn with rotting corpses. Soldiers embraced men they had been trying to kill a few short hours before. A shudder ran through the high command on either side. Here was disaster in the making: soldiers declaring their brotherhood with each other and refusing to fight.
- The story of the GI coffeehouses
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2007
Examining the rise of the GI coffeehouse movement--during the Vietnam War and again today in protest of the war on Iraq.
- When Soldiers Resist
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
Let's remember the courageous war resisters who said no to the slaughter in Vietnam.
- Winning the Rank and File Soldiers in Egypt
An Historical Drama Unfolds
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
The Supreme Council of the Armed Forces will wield power during and immediately after the current transition of the toppling of Mohamed Morsi.
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