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100 years of jingoism – WWI under the spotlight
by Ian Scott
Campaigners from across the continent will gather in Brussels on June 14 to oppose Europe’s accelerating militarisation and cuts to public services, write MAGGIE SIMPSON and BOB ORAM of No Cold War Britain
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GEOFF BOTTOMS recalls meeting Fidel Castro in the ’90s after joining a Pastors for Peace caravan to Cuba, and reflects on how international support is still vital to help the island withstand economic warfare
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THE First World War: 100 years of Imperialism and Resistance, by Democrat Press, marks the centenary of the bloodbath that was WWI by countering jingoistic misinformation. It offers remarkable insight on international relations past and present.
Pamphlet authors John Boyd and Brian Denny believe the origins of the war lay squarely at the door of imperialism and the business interests which profited so much from the conflict, drawing parallels the present day. The same forces, they believe, are with us now.
For instance, the 1884 Berlin Conference which carved up Africa between the European powers set up a committee to settle interstate disputes over who owned which colony. Today we have a “scramble for the world” using a raft of treaties on trade and investment.
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