Opening Guns of WWIII

As the feature article in this special issue explains, the devastation of Iraq did not lead to the dawn of a new world order. The Gulf war held a mirror to the declining capitalist world order and accelerated its contradictions. It sounded the opening guns of sharpening conflicts and class battles that will decide whether the horrors of World War Ill are inflicted on humanity . . . or a road is opened by working people to a socialist future of international human solidarity. Other articles . . . tell the hidden history of the GI revolt at the end of World War II,·when U.S. troops refused to allow themselves to be used to crush spreading anticolonial struggles . . . and discuss the roots of the militarization drive Washington set in motion at the end of the 1970s. Also includes: 1945: When US Troops said “No!” by Mary-Alice Waters Lessons from the Iran-Iraq War by Samad Sharif  To read full reviews, please click the REVIEWS & PROMO tab on this page.