Opening Guns of World War III (New International 7)

By: Jack Barnes and Mary Alice Waters

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Synopsis: Tens of thousands of Iraqis killed in one of the most cold-blooded slaughters in modern history . . .millions left homeless, starving, vulnerable to cholera and other diseases . . . two million Kurdish and other refugees . . . peoples whose modern means of life support have been destroyed . . . Despite these results of the U.S. military “victory” in Iraq, an imperialist-imposed Mideast “peace” is further from Washington’s grasp than ever. 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 III 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.