Campaign Against Militarism
Mike Freeman, The empire strikes back, 1993, a call to build an 'new' anti-war movement via the Campaign Against Militarism. One of the RCP's least successful ventures.
The Campaign Against Militarism (CAM) was associated with the RCP, the forerunner of the libertarian LM network. The Campaign was launched in 1993 in response to Western pressure on Serbia over the conflict in Bosnia [1] It was last reported as being active in 1998. [2] The Campaign campaigned against Western intervention in Somalia, Bosnia and Iraq.[3][4] Its secretary was Joan Phillips (Real name: Joan Hoey).[5][6]
Campaign Against Militarism sticker for march in London in August 1993, one of the latter and short lived RCP front groups.
No More Hiroshimas
No More Hiroshimas was a 'year of action' launched by the RCP in August 1994 in the run up to the fiftieth anniversary of the dropping of the bomb on Japan. It was launched under the banner of the Campaign Against Militarism.[7]
Resources
- Brad K. Blitz, The Serbian Unity Congress and the Serbian Lobby: A Study of Contemporary Revisionism and Denial, October 18, 1994, accessed 1 May 2010
- Thomas Cushman and Stjepan Gabriel Meštrović, This Time We Knew: Western Responses to Genocide in Bosnia, New York University Press, 1996
- GMWatch, From 'Massacring the truth' to 'Rewriting Rwanda', 10 April 2004, accessed 1 May 2010
- Wikipedia, Revolutionary Communist Party: Campaign Against Militarism
Notes
- ↑ "CAM rally- Kennington Park", Alphabet threat website, accessed 31 May 2010
- ↑ "CAM announcement", Schnews website, accessed 31 May 2010
- ↑ Brad K. Blitz, The Serbian Unity Congress and the Serbian Lobby: A Study of Contemporary Revisionism and Denial, October 18, 1994, accessed 1 May 2010
- ↑ CAM, Campaign Against Militarism Briefing 20 Things You Should Know About the Serbs That Aren't True, February 1994 No 4
- ↑ CAM, Campaign Against Militarism Briefing 20 Things You Should Know About the Serbs That Aren't True, February 1994 No 4
- ↑ Brad K. Blitz, The Serbian Unity Congress and the Serbian Lobby: A Study of Contemporary Revisionism and Denial, October 18, 1994, accessed 1 May 2010
- ↑ Living Marxism, No. 70, August 1994, p. 15.
